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2007 Alex Awards

Each 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.



This is a selection of our 2007 Alex Awards section. To find a specific book or author, or just to browse, please use the search box.

Black Swan Green - trade paperback
By David Mitchell - $21.00 - add to cart

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for th...

 

Blind Side - trade paperback
By Michael Lewis - $17.50 - add to cart

By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary...

 

Eagle Blue: A Team, a Tribe, and a High School Basketball Season in Arctic Alaska - trade paperback
By Michael D'orso - $16.95 - add to cart

Eagle Blue follows the Fort Yukon Eagles, winners of six regional championships in a row, through the course of an entire 28-game season, from their first day of practice in late November to the Al...

 

Floor of the Sky - trade paperback
By Pamela Carter Joern - $21.50 - add to cart

In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land—and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky,...

 

Water for Elephants - trade paperback
By Sara Gruen - $16.50 - add to cart

Orphaned and penniless at the height of the Depression, Jacob Jankowski escapes everything he knows by jumping on a passing train—and inadvertently runs away with the circus. So begins Water for El...

 

The World Made Straight: A Novel - trade paperback
By Ron Rash - $16.25 - add to cart

Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods near his home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. A...

 




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