The Kentucky Book Award

2007 9-12 Master List

Black and White/Paul Volponi
Viking Juvenile (May 5, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0670060062 $15.99
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
Caught in the Act/Peter Moore
Viking Juvenile (April 7, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0670059900 $16.99
Everyone believes that sophomore honors student Ethan Lederer is a top-notch scholar and a great guy, but a new student helps Ethan to discover and disclose that he is just acting a role, even as she reveals her own mental instability.
A Certain Slant of Light/Laura Whitcomb
Graphia (September 21, 2005) (Paperback) ISBN: 061858532X $8.99
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.
Crank/Ellen Hopkins
Simon Pulse (October 5, 2004) (Paperback) ISBN: 0689865198 $7.99
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
Eyes of the Emperor/Graham Salisbury
Wendy Lamb Books (August 9, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0385729715 $15.95
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Finding Lubchenko/Michael Simmons
Razorbill (June 16, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 1595140212 $16.99
When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
Full Service/Will Weaver
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (September 15, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0374324859 $17.00
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor/Laura Hillman
Atheneum (April 26, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0689869800 $16.95
In 1942 Hannelore Wolff made a difficult decision, one that changed her life forever. She left the comfort and safety of her boarding school in Berlin, Germany, and volunteered to be sent to a Polish ghetto. The Gestapo had already killed her father and were deporting her mother and brothers. Hannelore could not bear to be separated from what was left of her family so she chose to go with them....
Invisible/Pete Hautman
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing; 1st edition (May 17, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0689868006 $15.95
Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
Letting Go of Bobby James: Or How I Found My Self of Steam/Valerie Hobbs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August 13, 2004) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0374343845 $16.00
After being left by her husband at a gas station in Florida, sixteen-year-old Sally Jo Walker, also known as Jody, makes some difficult decisions and a better life for herself.
LoveSick/Jake Coburn
Dutton Juvenile (September 22, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0525473831 $16.99
After an accident seems to end his college and athletic dreams, Ted is offered a second chance at school if he agrees to spy on a classmate and help her father monitor her bulimia.
Poison/Chris Wooding
Scholastic Point; New Ed edition (January 16, 2004) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0439755700 $16.99
When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie/David Lubar
Dutton Juvenile (July 21, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0525473114 $16.99
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse/Carolyn Lehman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (September 29, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0374372829 $18.00
Every year more than half a million young people are sexually abused or assaulted in North America. This groundbreaking book brings readers face-to-face with nine survivors who speak with candor and courage about the abuse they experienced, how they have healed, and how they are moving forward with their lives. White, black, Latino, and Native American, these everyday heroes come from a wide range of communities and have found different ways to cope with and overcome sexual trauma....
Twilight/Stephenie Meyer
Megan Tingley (October 5, 2005) (Hardcover) ISBN: 0316160172 $17.99
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

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