Iowa High School Book Awards
The purpose of the Iowa High School Book Award is to promote leisure reading among Iowa high school students and to provide students with a diverse, quality reading list. Each year, students in grades 9-12 nominate and vote on their favorite books published within the past three years.
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Dry2018
Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to... more »- place hold (0)
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The end of our story2017
Summary: "BEFORE: Bridge and Wil have been entangled in each other's lives for years. Under the white-hot Florida sun, they went from kids daring each other to swim past the breakers to teenagers stealing... more »- place hold (0)
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Dear Martin2017
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.- place hold (0)
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Renegades2017
Summary: As she nears her goal of avenging the Renegades, who overthrew the villains to establish order from ruin, Nova grows close to justice-seeking Renegade Adrian, but her allegiance to the villains could destroy them both.- place hold (0)
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Long way down2017
Summary: There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickWarcross2017
Summary: "When teenage coder Emika Chen hacks her way into the opening tournament of the Warcross Championships, she glitches herself into the game as well as a sinister plot with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire." --- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe radium girls : the dark story of America's shining women2017
Summary: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe hate u give2017
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.- place hold (0)
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Underwater2016
Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a... more »- place hold (0)
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The forgetting2016
Summary: Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in... more »- place hold (0)
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When we collided2016
Summary: Jonah Daniels' father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant their dad... more »- place hold (0)
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Everything, everything2015
Summary: "The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The... more »- place hold (0)
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Portrait of a killer : Jack the Ripper--case closed2002
Summary: The number-one New York Times-bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell is known the world over for her brilliant storytelling, the courage of her characters, and the state-of-the-art forensic methods... more »- place hold (0)
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The 5th Wave
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