The document provides summaries of 20 young adult novels that are available in a school media center. The summaries cover a range of genres and topics, including dystopian societies, romance, family relationships, identity issues, and social justice themes. Many of the novels deal with challenging real-world issues faced by teenagers. Students are encouraged to visit the media center to check out any of these Georgia Peach Award Nominee books from 2016-2017.

1. 2016-2017

2. In an apocalyptic future
where girls from the losing
faction are forcibly married
to boys of the winning
faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy
is tasked to kill her fiancé,
Bishop. When she finally
meets him, though, he is
not the monster she has
been led to believe.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

3. Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017
Con man Will Shea may
have met his match in
scammer Andrea Dufresne
as they make a high-stakes
deal that'll determine who
gets to stay at
Connaughton Academy, one
of the most elite and
privileged preparatory
schools in the country.

4. Fourteen-year-old Dime,
a foster child in Newark,
New Jersey, finds love and
family as a prostitute, but
when her pimp rejects her
for a new girl, will Dime
have the strength to
leave?
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

5. Laia is a Scholar living under
the iron-fisted rule of the
Martial Empire. When her
brother is arrested for treason,
Laia goes undercover as a slave
at the empire's greatest
military academy in exchange
for assistance from rebel
Scholars who claim that they
will help to save her brother
from execution.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

6. Consumed by a stream of dark
thoughts and worries that she
can't turn off, a girl coping
with Purely-Obsessional OCD
learns to accept herself and
take control of her life
through her experiences in
poetry club.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

7. When sixteen-year-old Tariq
Johnson is shot to death, his
community is thrown into an
uproar because Tariq was
black and the shooter, Jack
Franklin, is white. In the
aftermath, everyone has
something to say, but no two
accounts of the events agree.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

8. Best friends Libby Deaton and
May Harper invented
Princess X when they were in
fifth grade, but when the car
Libby is in goes off a bridge, she
is presumed dead, and the story
came to an end.
Now, years later, Princess X is
suddenly everywhere, with a
whole underground culture
focused on a web comic, and May
believes her friend must be alive.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

9. Skylar Evans, seventeen,
yearns to escape Creek View
by attending art school, but
her mother's job loss puts her
dream at risk. A rekindled
friendship with Josh, who
joined the Marines to get
away then lost a leg in
Afghanistan, and her job at
the Paradise motel, lead her
to appreciate her home town.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

10. Homecoming queen Kristin
Lattimer has a hard enough time
dealing with her body, but her
visit to the doctor reveals a
difficult truth, Kristin is intersex,
which means that though she
looks like a girl, she has male
chromosomes, not to mention
boy "parts." After her diagnosis is
leaked to the whole school, her
identity is thrown into question.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

11. When blacksmith
apprentice Fletcher
discovers that he has the
ability to summon demons
from another world, he
travels to Adept Military
Academy where he must
decide where his loyalties
lie.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

12. Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped.
In her life. In her body. And now in an
eating-disorder treatment center on
the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico
desert. Her dad has signed her up for
sixty days of treatment. But what no
one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan
to stay that long. There are only
twenty-seven days until the
anniversary of her brother Josh's
death--the death she caused. And if
Stevie gets her way, there are only
twenty-seven days until she, too, will
die.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

13. After having her hands cut off
as punishment, Minnow Bly
escapes from a cult, only to
find herself in juvenile
detention, suspected of
knowing who murdered her
cult leader.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

14. M.T. is a high-achieving high
school student, who is hiding
the fact that she's an
undocumented immigrant in
the United States.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

15. Sixteen-year-old, not-so-
openly-gay Simon Spier is
blackmailed into playing
wingman for his classmate or
else his sexual identity--and
that of his pen pal--will be
revealed.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

16. Sugar Legowski-Garcia wasn't always
fat, but fat is what she is now at age
seventeen. When Sugar meets Even
(not Evan), she has the new
experience of someone seeing her
and not her body. As their unlikely
friendship builds, Sugar allows
herself to think about the future for
the first time, a future not weighed
down by her body or her mother.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

17.  In 1845, Sammy, a Chinese
American girl, and
Annamae, an African
American slave girl,
disguise themselves as
boys and travel on the
Oregon Trail to California
from Missouri.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

18. Thirteen-year-old brilliant
but socially-challenged
Stewart and mean-girl Ashley
must find common ground
when his father moves in
with his new girlfriend--
Ashley's mother, whose gay
ex-husband lives in their
guest house.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

19. Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn
cannot help but see the death
date of everyone she meets or
sees in a photograph or on-
screen, and her alcoholic
mother exploits this by having
her do readings for money.
When Maddie predicts the
death of a young boy, she
becomes the center of an FBI
investigation.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

20. Naila's vacation to visit
relatives in Pakistan
turns into a nightmare
when she discovers her
parents want to force her
to marry a man she's
never met.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

21. Fictionalized account of
the troubled youth of
Malcolm Little, later
known as Malcolm X.
Come check it out in the Media Center today!
Georgia Peach
Award Nominee
2016-2017

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