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 Come discover the 2009-2010 South Carolina Book Award, where each title is chosen to encourage students to read good quality contemporary literature.
The South Carolina Young Adult Book Award nominees are appropriate for 9-12 grade levels.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part time Indian - Sherman Alexie
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Junior, a budding cartoonist, grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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Beanball - Gene Fehler
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It's the last inning of a high school baseball game between arch-rivals Oak Grove and Compton. Center fielder Luke "Wizard" Wallace steps up to the plate--and is hit by a beanball, a wild pitch that shatters his skull, destroys the vision in his left eye, and changes his life forever.
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Big Fat Manifesto - Susan Vaught
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Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year, doing too much—including trying to change the world—and fighting for her rights as a very fat girl. And not quietly: she's writing a column every week in the paper with her thoughts and fears and gripes.
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Blood Brothers - SA Harazin
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Without his job at the hospital, Clay would be lost. The hard work, the struggles of the patients, the drama in the ER makes his days worth something, and gives focus to his dream of someday becoming a doctor.
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Circle of Blood - Alane Ferguson
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As the assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney gets to witness all aspects of death, including the autopsy room. Yet somehow that feels easy, compared to her personal life.
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City of Bones: The Mortal Instruments: Book One - Cassandra Clare
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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons.
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Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth - Caroline B. Cooney
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Lady Mary is a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth whose life is forever changed when her father, Lord Cawdor, betrays the Scottish king -- and is hanged as a traitor. In an instant, Mary has lost both her father and future.
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Evolution, Me and Other Freaks of Nature - Robin Brande
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Your best friend hates you. The guy you liked hates you. Your entire group of friends hates you. All because you did the right thing. Welcome to life for Mena, whose year is starting off in the worst way possible. She's been kicked out of her church group and no one will talk to her—not even her own parents.
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Game - Walter Dean Myers
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Drew Lawson knows basketball is taking him places. It has to, because his grades certainly aren't. But lately his plan has run squarely into a pick. Coach's new offense has made another player a star, and Drew won't let anyone disrespect his game.
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Good Enough - Paula Yoo
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Patti's parents expect nothing less than the best from their Korean-American daughter. Everything she does affects her chances of getting into an Ivy League school. So winning assistant concertmaster in her All-State violin competition and earning less than 2300 on her SATs is simply not good enough.
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Gym Candy - Carl Deuker
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Football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
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In the Name of God - Paula Jolin
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Nadia is an excellent student, daughter, and sister, living in Damascus, Syria. Above all, she strives to walk the straight path and follow the laws of Islam. But she’s confused by the world around her and how she fits into it.
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Mad Kestrel - Misty Massey
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Quartermaster of an infamous pirate ship, feisty Kestrel loves the freedom of living on the seas. But her way of life could end if anyone on board learns her closely guarded secret--that she has magical control over the wind.
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin
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If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia.
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson
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Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a year-long coma—so she’s been told—and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before that? She’s been given home movies chronicling her entire life, which spark memories to surface.
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The Silenced - James DeVita
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In a world filled with sanctions and restrictions, Marena struggles to remember the past: a time before the Zero Tolerance Party murdered her mother and put her father under house arrest.
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Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher
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Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
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Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
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High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background—average student, average looks, average dysfunctional family. But since he got busted for doing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe.
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Wake - Lisa McMann
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Not all dreams are sweet. For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old.
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Yellow Flag - Robert Lipsyte
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In Kyle's family, his older brother, Kris, has always been the racer, born and bred to it, like his father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him. And that's just fine with Kyle; he's got other things to do. Now Kris is out of commission, injured, and Kyle has no choice but to drive.
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