Abraham Lincoln Award
2006
Master List

Winner: My sister's keeper by Jodi Picoult!

Chevalier, Tracy.   Girl with a pearl earring.                                       233 p.                  
   History and fiction merge seamlessly in Chevalier's luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Through the eyes of 16-year-old Griet, the world of 1660s Holland comes alive in this richly imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings.
Corrigan, Eireann. You remind me of you: a poetry memoir.                                          123 p.                  
    Autobiographical poems recount events in a teenager's life, including her battles with eating disorders, her time in treatment facilities, and the suicide of her boyfriend.
Crutcher, Chris. King of the mild frontier: an ill-advised autobiography.          260 p.         921 Crutcher
   Chris Crutcher, author of young adult novels such as "Ironman" and "Whale Talk," as well as short stories, tells of growing up in Cascade, Idaho, and becoming a writer.
Dessen, Sarah. The truth about forever.    374 p.                  F Des
   The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief.
Draper, Sharon M.  The Battle of Jericho                       296 p.                  F Dra
   A high school junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a "reputable" school club.
Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre affair: a novel                                         374 p.                  
   In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.
Golabek, Mona. The Children of Willesden Lane...                                 272 p.                  
    One of 10,000 Jewish children sent to England by fearful parents at the dawn of WWII, aspiring pianist Lisa Jura was 14 when her family put her on a Kindertransport train in Vienna. In this alternately heart-wrenching and uplifting story, Jura's daughter, Golabek, a pianist, and writer Cohen trace the six years Jura spent in London, where she found surrogate families in the 31 other young refugees at the Willesden Lane hostel, and in the working-class British women at the East End garment factory that employed her.
Haddon, Mark. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time                226 p.                  F Had
   Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
Hautman, Pete. Sweet-blood.                                    242 p.                 
   After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
Hornschemeier, Paul. Mother, come home.                                      1 v. (unpaged).                 
  Hornschemeier's Forlorn Funnies comics series has been something of an underground hit in art-comics circles. His first book collection is a grimly melancholic domestic tragedy, written from the point of view of a young boy named Thomas who's dealing with the death of his mother by retreating deep into a fantasy world while his father gradually collapses into insanity.
Hosseini, Khaled. The kite runner.                                        324 p.                  F Hos
   Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
Johnson, Angela. The first part last                                         144 p.                  
   Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
Koontz, Dean R. Odd Thomas.                                          446 p.                  F Koo
   Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
Mackler, Carolyn. The earth, my butt, and other big round things                       246 p.                  F Mac
   Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
Maynard, Joyce. The usual rules                                            390 p.                 
    It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn—a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center--her mother's office building. Through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Wendy, we gain entrance to the world rarely shown by those who documented the events of that one terrible day: a family's slow and terrible realization that Wendy's mother has died, and their struggle to go on with their lives in the face of such a crushing loss.
Picoult, Jodi. My sister's keeper: a novel.                                                432 p.                 
   Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
Reeve, Philip. Mortal engines: a novel                                                          310 p.                  F Ree
   In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Roach, M. Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers.                                303 p.                
   In her droll, intimate voice, Roach conducts an oddly compelling, often hilarious forensic exploration of the strange lives of bodies postmortem.
Sanchez, Alex.. Rainbow boys.                                                  233 p.                  F San
   Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl.                                              186 p.                 F Spi
   In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Tashjian, Janet. The gospel according to Larry.                                    227 p.                  F Tas
   Seventeen-year-old Josh, a loner-philosopher who wants to make a difference in the world, tries to maintain his secret identity as the author of a web site that is receiving national attention.
Trueman, Terry. Inside out.                               117 p.                 
   A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.