2007 Best Books for Young Adults Nominees (Fiction)
Explore the 2007 Best Books for Young Adults Fiction Nominees—a curated list of top-rated novels perfect for teen readers and young book lovers. Discover award-worthy stories today!
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Amazing Grace
by Megan Shull
Grace Ace Kincaid has it all. Shes a teen sports sensation. Her faceand bodyare on the cover ofevery magazine. Shes front and center on the red carpet. She has the world at her feet, as long as she toes the line.But then she says three little words. Three words that take her out of the spotlight to Medicine Hat, Alaska. Population 272.Grace has the chance to start all over again. Its something she wanted so much. Now the question is: Who will she be?
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Enthusiasm
by Polly Shulman
A first-time novelist pens a Jane Austen-inspired romantic comedy of errors as two girls get a part in the boys' school musical. What follows is a series of misinterpreted--and missed--signals, dating mishaps, and awkward incidents. This edition includes a discussion guide.
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Hip-Hop High School
by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Follows an African-American teenager through four years at her inner-city high school.
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Moped Army
by Paul Sizer
It's the year 2277 and Simone, a rich girl from Upper Bolt Harbor, is befriending the moped gangs that control the streets when her boyfirend and his gang decide to wipe out the street gang to save Simone.
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Endymion Spring
by Matthew Skelton
While visiting Oxford with his mother and kid sister, Blake finds a strange, wordless book in the college library, but as Blake looks, words begin to appear on the page--words no one else can see.
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Do Unto Otters
by Laurie Keller
Mr. Rabbit wonders if he will be able to get along with his new neighbors, who are otters, until he is reminded of the golden rule.
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The Amethyst Road
by Louise Spiegler
Having fled the city of Oestia after attacking an official, sixteen-year-old Serena--an outcast as well as a mixed-race child of a Gorgio father and Yulang mother--seeks to reunite her family and regain her honor.
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Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda
by J.P. Stassen
Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers just like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsiso say their ID cards.We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide which the world will watch but do nothing to stop. In less than a hundred days, eight hundred thousand human beings will be hacked to death.Moment by moment, piece by piece, J.P. Stassen skillfully builds a masterpiece, an unforgettable tale that probes mans inhumanity to man. His eloquence, his storytelling power, and his sheer poetry elevate this harrowing story to the rank of a testimonial to one of the darkest chapters in recent human history.With great skill and understanding, Stassens Deogratias takes us back and forth in time, showing only before and after the killings and inexorably revealing the grip of madness and horror on one young boy and his country.Difficult, beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking, this is a masterwork by a major artist of our time.
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Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate
by Jonathan Stroud
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's minister of information.
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Hard Hit
by Ann Warren Turner
A rising high school baseball star faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A novel written in poetry.