2009 YARP High School List Part 1

2009 YARP High School List: 

2009 YARP High School List Part 1 of the List

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian : 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. By Sherman Alexie

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Thirteen Reasons Why : 

Thirteen Reasons Why When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death. By Jay Asher

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Airman : 

Airman In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety. By Eoin Colfer

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Deadline : 

Deadline Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life’s purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos." By Chris Crutcher

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Lock and Key : 

Lock and Key When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora’s new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others. By Sarah Dessen

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Little Brother : 

Little Brother After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. By Cory Doctorow

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Beastly : 

Beastly A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form. By Alex Flinn

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How Ya Like Me Now : 

How Ya Like Me Now After his father dies and his mother goes into rehab, Eddie moves from the suburbs into his cousin’s Boston loft, where he gradually adjusts to being one of the few white kids in a progressive private school, and learns how to feel like a normal teenager. By Brendan Halpin

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YARP: 

YARP Each year the Young Adult Reading Program (YARP) Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list to promote quality literature and to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents. The books are selected from among the many young adult and adult books that have received positive reviews by national reviewing periodicals.

Teen Choice Award: 

Teen Choice Award Teens can read from the current year's list at the Mitchell Public Library YARP 2009 Site (http://mitlib.sdln.net/YARP/YARP2009.html) or at the YARP State Library site, http://library.sd.gov/teencenter/yarp/index.htm, and then vote on any book they read. The Voting Online Form can be found on the Mitchell Teen Choice Site (http://mitlib.sdln.net/YARP/teenchoiceaward.html). Teens can rate the books. There will be two winners: one for high school age books and one for middle school age books, but teens can read and vote for any book they want. Voting will begin during Teen Read Week in October and the voting will end in March. The winners will be announced during National Library Week.

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