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Newbery 2002
  • Cover of the book A single shard
  • Cover of the book Everything on a waffle
  • Cover of the book Carver, a life in poems
2010 Best Teen Fiction
  • Cover of the book Before I fall
  • Cover of the book Birthmarked
  • Cover of the book The DUFF : designated ugly fat friend : a novel
  • Cover of the book The enemy
  • Cover of the book Fever Crumb
  • Cover of the book Finnikin of the rock
  • Cover of the book Gimme a call
  • Cover of the book Guardian of the dead
  • Cover of the book Hold me closer, necromancer
  • Cover of the book The red umbrella
  • Cover of the book The replacement
  • Cover of the book Sisters red
  • Cover of the book The sky is everywhere
  • Cover of the book Thirteen days to midnight
  • Cover of the book Toads and diamonds
  • Cover of the book The water seeker
TAYSHAS Reading List 2012
  • Cover of the book I am Nujood, age 10 and divorced
  • Cover of the book Janis Joplin : rise up singing
  • Cover of the book Compulsion
  • Cover of the book I am J
  • Cover of the book Flip
  • Cover of the book Teenage Waistland : a novel
  • Cover of the book Chime
  • Cover of the book White cat
  • Cover of the book Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition
  • Cover of the book LIE
  • Cover of the book Beauty queens
  • Cover of the book Queen of hearts
  • Cover of the book Bitter end
  • Cover of the book Stolen
  • Cover of the book Leverage
  • Cover of the book Dash & Lily's book of dares

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Newbery 2005
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Kira-kira
By Cynthia Kadohata.
2005 Newbery Winner
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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