Subscribe via RSS 2.0Each year, The American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world, honors the best books published that year.
The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
| By Ishmael Beah - $26.95 - add to cart | |
At the age of 12, Ishmael Beah experienced a grievous loss of innocence when a rebel army moved through his village in Sierra Leone. After months of running for survival, he was coerced into battle...
| By Matthew Polly - $18.00 - add to cart | |
Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling torme...
| By Thomas Maltman - $29.00 - add to cart | |
The summer of 1876 feels like the end of the world to fourteen-year-old Asa Senger. Locusts plague the prairie farms; his family is about to lose everything. The Dakota Indians have been banished f...
| By Lisa Lutz - $16.00 - add to cart | |
Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addic...
| By Jeff Lemier - $13.50 - add to cart | |
Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire (Lost Dogs) illustrates the tale of Lester, an orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on his Uncle's farm. Their relationship grows increasingly strained a...
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