2011-2012 High School KBA Nominees

When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more. © 2010

Anna and the French Kiss

by:Stephanie Perkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6Xe2lbt1lkBook Trailer:

When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media. © 2010

Dirty Little Secrets

by:Omololu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S5JAfAQn_cBook Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjvpuWnfOw&feature=related

Hold Me Closer Necromancer

by:

Lish McBride

Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

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Incarceron

by:

Catherine Fisher

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjAfV8AQRy8Book Trailer:

Leverage

by:

Joshua Cohen

High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAK6xo_qMtc&feature=youtu.be

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Room

by:

Emma Donoghue

Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8rj2otXNfM&playnext=1&list=PL0AC8E909654F12B3

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Ship Breaker

by:

Paolo Bacigalupi

In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydZ-NktRg4sBook Trailer:

Sorta Like a Rock Star

by:

Matthew QuickAmber Appleton, living in a school bus with her mom, refuses to give in to despair and continues visiting the elderly at a nursing home, teaching English to Korean women, and caring for a Vietnam veteran and his dog, but a fatal tragedy may prove to be one burden too many for the seventeen-year-old girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdhw5YJ83OgBook Trailer:

Split

by:

Swati Avasthi

A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htjU0LccQ6E&feature=related

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You

by:

Charles Benoit

Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_h1QG51OXQ

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