Kannam book look: Young Adult Literature Spring 2011 Book Selections

I am looking forward to reading the following books this semester...
1. Award Winner
Winner of the Batchelder Award for a children's book translated into English and then published in the USA

A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
1st Choice

Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

2nd Choice, winner of the Printz Award

2. Fantasy and Science Fiction

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
1st Choice

Wake by Lisa McMann
2nd Choice

3. Non-Western Literature
Also a 2011 Pura Belpre Author Award Honor Book for a book by a Latino/Latina writer whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.

The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle
1st Choice

90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
2nd Choice

4. Graphic Novel

Twilight the Graphic Novel by Stephanie Meyer
Illustrated by Young Kim
1st Choice

A Graphic Biography: Malcolm X by Andrew Helfer
2nd Choice

5. Nonfiction

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker
1st Choice

We are the Ship: The Story of the Negro Baseball League by Kadir Nelson
2nd Choice

6. Realistic Fiction