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Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Honors titles with high literary quality as well as being relevant to and appreciated by teens. These titles also have a "positive approach to life." The AEWA is administered by the Adolescent Literature Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN).	Print this list  Email this list Return to Book Lists
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Alexander, Jill The Sweetheart of Prosper County In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning. 2010 Finalist 212 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Cashore, Kristin Fire In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world. 2010 Winner 461 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Cashore, Kristin Graceling In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. 2009 Finalist 471 p. 2008 Teen Fiction Book   Chandler, Kristen Wolves, Boys & other Things That Might Kill Me Two teenagers become close as the citizens of their town fight over the packs of wolves that have been reintroduced into the nearby Yellowstone National Park. 2011 Finalist 371 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. 2009 Finalist 312 p. 2008 Children's Fiction Book   Headley, Justina Chen North of Beautiful Terra, a sensitive, artistic high school senior born with a facial port-wine stain, struggles with issues of inner and outer beauty with the help of her Goth classmate Jacob. 2010 Finalist 373 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Kluger, Steve My Most Excellent Year : a Novel of Love, Mary Poppins & Fenway Park Three teenagers in Boston narrate their experiences of a year of new friendships, first loves, and coming into their own. 2009 Winner 403 p. 2008 Teen Fiction Book   McCall, Guadalupe Garcia Under the Mesquite Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. 224 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Myracle, Lauren Shine When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town. 359 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Pena, Matt de la I Will Save You Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways. 2011 Finalist 310 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Quick, Matthew Sorta Like a Rock Star : a Novel Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression. 2011 Finalist 355 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Sepetys, Ruta Between Shades of Gray In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note. 344 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Sharenow, Rob The Berlin Boxing Club In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust. 404 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book   Sonnenblick, Jordan After Ever After Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa. 2011 Finalist 260 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Stork, Francisco X. The Last Summer of the Death Warriors Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions. 2011 Winner 344 p. 2010 Teen Fiction Book   Stork, Francisco X. Marcelo in the Real World Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm. 2010 Finalist 312 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Valentine, Jenny Me, the Missing, and the Dead When a series of chance events leaves him in possession of an urn with ashes, sixteen-year-old Londoner Lucas Swain becomes convinced that its occupant, Violet Park, is communicating with him, initiating a voyage of self-discovery that forces him to finally confront the events surrounding his father's sudden disappearance. 2009 Finalist 201 p. 2008 Teen Fiction Book   Woodson, Jacqueline After Tupac & D Foster In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live. 2009 Finalist 153 p. 2008 Teen Fiction Book   Yancey, Richard The Monstrumologist : William James Henry In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi. 2010 Finalist 454 p. 2009 Teen Fiction Book   Young, Moira Blood Red Road In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape. 459 p. 2011 Teen Fiction Book  Print this list  Email this list Return to Book Lists