Young Adult National Book Awards
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Vol. 1 The Pox Party
By M.T.Anderson
-winner of the 2006 award
-Negro boy raised during the revolutionary war by philosophers who educated him.
Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
-Young woman who holds off Lord Death with her storytelling.
Rules of SurvivalBy Nancy Werlin
-Story of a teenager who won't let his family remain at risk from his abusive mother.
SoldBy Patricia McCormick
-A series of graphic poetic vignettes about a Nepali girl sold into sexual slavery.
American Born ChineseBy Gene Luen Yang
-A graphic novel about discrimination a Chinese-american boy suffers.