Recommended Reading for Teens at the NLCL

Iowa Teen Award Winners

Airborn, Kenneth Oppel

Code Talker: A novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II, Joseph Bruchac

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, Jordan Sonnenblick

Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin

Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Flush, Carl Hiaasen

Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli

The People of Sparks, Jeanne DuPrau

The Perfect Shot, Elaine Marie Alphin

Runner, Carl Deuker

Small Steps, Louis Sacher

So B. It, Sarah Weeks

Stumptown Kids, Carol Gorman and Ron J. Findley

Uglies, Scott Westerfeld

Iowa High School Book Award Winners

Acceleration, Graham McNamee

The Divide, Nicholas Evans

Fault Line, Janet Tashjian

Inexcusable, Chris Lynch

Jude, Kate Morgenroth

Keeping You a Secret, Julie Anne Peters

Letting Go of Bobby James, or How I Found My Self Esteem, Valerie Hobbs

Light on Snow, Anita Shreve

Looking for Alaska, John Green

My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult

The Sledding Hill, Chris Crutcher

Twilight, Stephanie Meyer