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Best of YA Award Winners 2018 March 2018
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Printz Award: Best Teen Fiction 2018
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We are okay
by Nina LaCour
Running back to college and shutting out everyone from her life in California after a traumatic summer that nobody else knows about, Marin is forced to confront what happened during a lonely, fateful winter break. By the award-winning author of Hold Still.
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Long way down
by Jason Reynolds
Driven by the secrets and vengeance that mark his street culture, 15-year-old Will contemplates over the course of 60 psychologically suspenseful seconds whether or not he is going to murder the person who killed his brother. By the National Book Award finalist author of When I Was the Greatest. This book also won a Newberry Honor and the Coretta Scott King Award.
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Strange the dreamer
by Laini Taylor
War orphan and junior librarian Lazlo Strange is obsessed with the lost city of Weep, and when a stunning opportunity is offered, Lazlo seizes his chance to learn the city's mysteries and enters a mythical world of monsters, treachery, and wonder
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YALSA: Best YA Non-Fiction 2018
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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
Profiled by a racist police officer in spite of his excellent academic achievements and Ivy League acceptance, a disgruntled college youth navigates the prejudices of new classmates and his crush on a white girl by writing a journal to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the hopes that his iconic role model's teachings will be applicable half a century later. A first novel.
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Devils within
by S. F. Henson
Raised in a white supremacist compound where he was honored for his acts of violence before killing his own father, 14-year-old Nate is placed in the custody of his uncle and starts over with a new identity before forging an unexpected bond with a kind boy he was taught to hate. A first novel.
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Saints and misfits
by S. K. Ali
Struggling to secure her identity as an Arab Indian-American hijabi teen who loves pop culture and aspires to a career in photography, Janna Yusuf falls for a boy she cannot date and considers exposing a person with a monstrous nature who is pretending to be a saint in their tightknit Muslim community. A first novel.
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Starfish
by Akemi Dawn Bowman
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and a narcissistic mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school before accepting an invitation to tour other art schools on the West Coast. A first novel.
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