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Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is a 2019 Morris Award Finalist. This fantasy is based on the Nigerian heritage of the the author, It is also an allegory of the experiences of young black...
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The librarian of auschwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe is based on the experiences of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraous. This is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of...
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The only thing to fear / live in infamy
The Only Thing to Fear is an alternative history written by Caroline Tung Richmond. It's been nearly 80 years since the Allies lost WWII in a crushing defeat against Hitler's genetically engineered...
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2019 Teens' top ten nominees
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby Library collection. More titles will be added before Teen Read Week next fall. #MurderTrending – Gretchen McNeil – Dee has been wrongfully convicted and...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The New York Times Bestseller by Heather Morris is a touching true story of a young man from Slovakia who volunteers to go to what he is told is a work camp to work for the Germans because he is told...
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2019 Schneider Family Book Award - Teen Winner
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection. The Schneider Family Book Award is for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience. Anger is a Gift...
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2019 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection The Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award is for most distinguished informational book for children The Girl Who Drew...
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2019 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection. The YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction honors the best nonfiction book published for young adults (ages 12-18) during a...
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2019 YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection. A Heart in a Body in the World – Deb Caletti – After a traumatic incident, Annabelle manages to finish her senior year with...
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2019 Top Ten (11) Best Graphic Books for Teens
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection. NONFICTION Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation – Anne Frank (author), Ari Folman and David Polonsky (Illustrator) –...
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2019 Top Ten (11) Quick Picks for Young Young adult Readers
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection. The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo – Xiomara secretly creates poetry to explore her shifting relationship with her Dominican...
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2019 -2020 Virginia Readers' Choice - High School Selections
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library collection Dreamland Burning – Jennifer Latham – Rowan Chase, an affluent biracial teen living in present day Tulsa, Oklahoma, lives a...
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2018 national book award - young people's literature
In The Poet X a young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. The Poet X is the debut novel of renowned slam poet...
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2019 Michael L. Printz Award
Titles in red are part of the Turner Ashby High School Library Collection. Michael L. Printz Award is given for excellence in literature written for young adults. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is...
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Dread Nation
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland is both a fantasy and an alternative history novel. Although I like alternative fiction, fantasy, especially about zombies (here called shamblers), would not be...
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That's not what happened
That's NOT What Happened is by Kody Keplinger and was named a Best Quick for Young Adult Readers in 2019. The story begins three years after the Virgil County High School Massacre. The narrator...
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Pure grit
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific by Mary Crunk Farrell is a tribute the the brave nurses of World War II in the Pacific. In the early 1940s,...
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#murdertrending
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil take the reader to the near future where good and honest citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on...
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Arc of the Scythe - updated
Two teens must learn the “art of killing” in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world...
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