Top 10 Editors' Picks: Teens
Kimberly
Willis Holt's wholly original and intriguing novel,
Keeper of the
Night, was our favorite book of the year in
Teens. See more editors' picks
and customers' favorites in our
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Keeper of the Night
Kimberly Willis Holt
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Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
May 1, 2003
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In a fascinating departure from her usual folksy Southern fiction, award-winning author Kimberly Willis Holt transports her readers to the island of present-day Guam, where thirteen-year-old Isabel...
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Faerie Wars
Herbie Brennan
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Bloomsbury USA Children's Books
April 2, 2003
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From School Library Journal
Grade 5-8-Henry Atherton's family is in some disarray when his mother has an affair with his father's female secretary. Henry's escape is helping elderly Mr. Fogarty with chores. Meanwhile, in a parallel world, Pyrgus Malvae, son of the Purple Emperor, is ...
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Boy Meets Boy
David Levithan
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Knopf Books for Young Readers
September 9, 2003
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In this delightful young adult novel for readers 12 and up, high school sophomore Paul says, "There isn...
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Fat Kid Rules the World
K. L. Going
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Putnam Juvenile
June 23, 2003
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From School Library Journal
Grade 8 Up-The opening lines of this first-person narrative immediately hook readers as they enter the lonely, troubled, self-deprecating world of Troy Billings, a 296-pound 17-year-old who contemplates ending his life by jumping off a New York City sub...
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Buddha Boy (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
Kathe Koja
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
March 4, 2003
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From School Library Journal
Grade 7-10-Justin-an "average" kid-serves as the interface between readers (and to some extent his schoolmates) and Michael Martin, aka Buddha Boy, whose Buddhist teacher named him Jinsen, "fountain of God." Justin mostly wants to pass through high school ...
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Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
Christopher Paolini
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Knopf Books for Young Readers
June 25, 2003
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Here's a great big fantasy that you can pull over your head like a comfy old sweater and disappear into for a whole weekend. Christopher Paolini began ...
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The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember (Books of Ember)
Jeanne DuPrau
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Random House Books for Young Readers
May 13, 2003
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It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, whic...
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A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly
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Harcourt Children's Books
April 1, 2003
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It's 1906 and 16-year-old Mattie Gokey is at a crossroads in her life. She's escaped the overwhelming responsibilities of helping to run her father's brokedown farm in exchange for a paid summer job as a serving girl at a fancy hotel in the Adirondacks. Sh...
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Alice, I Think
Susan Juby
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HarperTeen
June 3, 2003
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Ever since Alice arrived at first grade dressed as a hobbit and endured a week of increasingly violent peer rejection, she has been home schooled by her hippie mom and indifferent dad, leaving her with what her therapist calls "a shocking poverty of age-ap...
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True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Martha Brooks
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
March 11, 2003
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From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-At 17, Noreen has led an unhappy life, overloaded with conflict. One stormy night, she drives off in her most recent boyfriend's truck and finds her way to a rundown caf...
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