This document lists young adult books that were nominated for or won the Georgia Peach Book Award in 2011-2012. It provides the book titles, authors, and brief descriptions of 16 books that were recognized by the award for works published for that age range during that time period.
YA (young adult) book releases for 2011. Including some book releases for 2012. Brought to you by fai-reviews.blogspot.com
**There are some spelling mistakes, so sorry about that :-)
Day 3: Introduction to Information LiteracyBuffy Hamilton
Objectives: 1. To explore and evaluate traditional and uthoritative database information sources. 2. To explore and utilize strategies to effectively use traditional and emerging search engines for information. 3. To explore and evaluate how emerging Web 2.0 tools can be used as sources of information. 4. To explore the merits and drawbacks to collaboratively created open sources of information such as Wikipedia.
YA (young adult) book releases for 2011. Including some book releases for 2012. Brought to you by fai-reviews.blogspot.com
**There are some spelling mistakes, so sorry about that :-)
Day 3: Introduction to Information LiteracyBuffy Hamilton
Objectives: 1. To explore and evaluate traditional and uthoritative database information sources. 2. To explore and utilize strategies to effectively use traditional and emerging search engines for information. 3. To explore and evaluate how emerging Web 2.0 tools can be used as sources of information. 4. To explore the merits and drawbacks to collaboratively created open sources of information such as Wikipedia.
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2. Georgia Peach Book Award
Winner 2011
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
3. Georgia Peach Book Award
Honor Book 2011
The Forest of
Hands and Teeth
by Carrie Ryan
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
4. Georgia Peach Book Award
Honor Book 2011
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
5. Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
With his mother working long
hours and in pain from a
romantic break-up, eighteen-
year-old Logan feels alone
and unloved until a zany new
student arrives at his small-
town Missouri high school,
keeping a gender secret.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
6. Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
In a small South Carolina
town, where it seems little has
changed since the Civil War,
sixteen-year-old Ethan is
powerfully drawn to Lena, a
new classmate with whom he
shares a psychic connection
and whose family hides a
dark secret that may be
revealed on her sixteenth
birthday.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
7. Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
In a future world baked dry by
the sun and divided into those
who live inside the wall and
those who live outside it,
sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia
Stone is forced into a difficult
choice when her parents are
arrested and taken into the city.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
8. Black Hole Sun by David Macinnis Gill
On the planet Mars, sixteen-
year-old Durango and his
crew of mercenaries are hired
by the settlers of a mining
community to protect their
most valuable resource from
a feral band of marauders.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
9. Bruiser by Neal Shusterman
Inexplicable events start to
occur when sixteen-year-old
twins Tennyson and Brontë
befriend a troubled and
misunderstood outcast, aptly
nicknamed Bruiser, and his little
brother, Cody.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
10. Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu
When her unstable
mother dies unexpectedly,
sixteen-year-old Lucy
must take control and find
a way to keep the long-
held secret of her
mother's compulsive
hoarding from being
revealed to friends,
neighbors, and especially
the media.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
11. Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Now on the cusp of
manhood, Finnikin, who
was a child when the royal
family of Lumatere was
brutally murdered and
replaced by an imposter,
reluctantly joins forces with
an enigmatic young novice
and fellow-exile, who
claims that her dark
dreams will lead them to a
surviving royal child and a
way to regain the throne of
Lumatere.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
12. Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John
Eighteen-year-old Piper
becomes the manager
for her classmates'
popular rock band,
called Dumb, giving her
the chance to prove her
capabilities to her
parents and others, if
only she can get the
band members to get
along.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
13. Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have
by Allen Zadoff
Fifteen-year-old Andrew
Zansky, the second
fattest student at his high
school, joins the varsity
football team to get the
attention of a new girl on
whom he has a crush.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
14. God is in the Pancakes by Robin Epstein
Fifteen-year-old Grace,
having turned her back on
religion when her father
left, now finds herself
praying for help with her
home and love life, and
especially with whether
she should help a beloved
elderly friend die with
dignity.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
15. Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Sixteen-year-old Valerie,
whose boyfriend Nick
committed a school shooting
at the end of their junior year,
struggles to cope with
integrating herself back into
high school life, unsure
herself whether she was a
hero or a villain.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
16. Jane by April Lindner
In this contemporary
retelling of "Jane Eyre,"
an orphaned nanny
becomes entranced with
her magnetic and
brooding employer, a
rock star with a torturous
secret from his past.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
17. Lockdown: Escape from Furnace
by Alexander Gordon Smith
When fourteen-year-
old Alex is framed for
murder, he becomes
an inmate in the
Furnace Penitentiary,
where brutal inmates
and sadistic guards
reign, boys who
disappear in the
middle of the night
sometimes return
weirdly altered, and
escape might just be
possible.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
18. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Sixteen-year-old
Thomas wakes up with
no memory in the
middle of a maze and
realizes he must work
with the community in
which he finds himself if
he is to escape.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
19. The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford
Eighteen-year-old
Christopher, who plans to
be a spy, learns of a
murder cover-up through
his summer job as a
morgue assistant and
teams up with Tina, a
gorgeous newspaper
reporter, to investigate,
despite great danger.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
20. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
Calla and Ren have
been raised knowing it's
their destiny to mate
with one another and
rule over their
shapeshifting wolf pack,
but when a human boy
arrives and vies for
Calla's heart, she's
faced with a decision
that could change her
whole world.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
21. Shift by Jennifer Bradbury
When best friends Chris
and Win go on a cross
country bicycle trek the
summer after graduating
and only one returns, the
FBI wants to know what
happened.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
22. Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a futuristic world,
teenaged Nailer
scavenges copper wiring
from grounded oil tankers
for a living, but when he
finds a beached clipper
ship with a girl in the
wreckage, he has to
decide if he should strip
the ship for its wealth or
rescue the girl.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
23. Split by Swati Avasthi
A teenaged boy
thrown out of his
house by his abusive
father goes to live
with his older brother,
who ran away from
home years ago to
escape the abuse.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012
24. The Things a Brother Knows
by Dana Reinhardt
Although they have never
gotten along well,
seventeen-year-old Levi
follows his older brother
Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a
walking trip from Boston
to Washington, D.C. in
hopes of learning why
Boaz is completely
withdrawn.
GA Peach Book Award Nominee 2011-2012