Awards and Honors2019 Arkansas Teen Book Award Winner
2019 Flicker Tale Award Winner, Young Adult
2019 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Honor
2019 Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards Nominee
2018-2019 Soaring Eagle Award Winner
2018-2019 Great Lakes Great Books Award Winner, Grades 9-12
2018 Indies Choice Book Award Honor, Young Adult
2018 Thumbs Up! Award Honor
2018 Cybils Award Winner, Poetry
2018 Michael L. Printz Award Honor
2018 John Newbery Medal Honor
2018 Coretta Scott King Award Honor, Author
2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, Young Adult Literature
2018 Edgar Award, Best Young Adult
ALSC Notable Children’s Books 2018, Older
YALSA 2018 Quick Pick for Reluctant Readers Selection
YALSA 2018 Best Fiction for Young Adults, Top Ten
Capitol Choices 2018, Fourteen and Up
2018 Walter Award Winner, Teen Category CCBC Choices 2018 Choice: Fiction for Young Adults
ILA Young Adults' Choices - 2018
National Book Award 2017 Longlist Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017, Teen Books Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017, Young Adult School Library Journal’s Best Books of 2017, Young Adult
Horn Book Fanfare List 2017, Fiction
Amazon.com Best Books of 2017, Young Adult
Chicago Public Library Best Books of 2017, Teen Fiction
2017 Goodreads Choice Awards, Poetry
CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Books of 2017
BuzzFeed 28 Best YA Books of 2017
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens 2017, Top Ten The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books 2017 Blue Ribbons, Fiction The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction 2017
Thisfiercely stunning novel that takes place in sixty potent seconds—the time it takes a kid to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.
These exciting, age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction titles will appeal to even the most reluctant high-school readers. With that kind of appeal, the 14 books in this category will rarely sit on the shelf.
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