YABA: South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Books 2011-2012

likeable neighbor—and a born victim who’s hidden from her best friend and her crush, YABA: the butt of every prank at Benders High. knowing they’d be disgusted by the truth. South Carolina When the pranks turn deadly at the hands of So, when her mom dies suddenly in their an invincible football star, Poe knows she’s home, Lucy hesitates to call 911; revealing Young Adult got to fix the system and take down the their way of life would make her future Book Award hero. unbearable. Instead she begins a two-day plan to set her life right. Books 2011-2012 The Chosen One Carol Lynch Williams Angry Management The Ghosts of War: The Chris Crutcher Thirteen-year-old Kyra has True Story of a 19-year Old grown up in an isolated GI Welcome to Angry Management - a place for community with a father has Ryan Smithson misfits. Stories that will rip out your heart three wives and twenty brothers and sisters. and give you back one better than what you Through her visits to the Ironton County Ryan Smithson joined the Army started with. Stories about prejudice, rage, Mobile Library on Wheels to read forbidden Reserve when he was just out of and hope. No sugarcoating here. Just the books, and her secret meetings with Joshua, high school. At age nineteen he truth. the boy she hopes to choose for herself, she was deployed to Iraq. His year in combat begins questioning her family life. When the changed his life. Prophet decrees that Kyra must marry her This is his story. It will change the way you Before I Fall sixty-year-old uncle—who already has six feel about what it means to be an American. Lauren Oliver wives—she must make a desperate choice. Samantha Kingston has it all. Friday, The Girl in the Arena February 12, should be just another day in Diary of a Witness Lise Haines her charmed life. Instead, it turns out Carol Ryan Hyde to be her last. As a modern gladiator's Then she gets a second chance. Reliving her Ernie doesn't have a lot of friends at school. daughter, Lyn and her family last day during one miraculous week, she will Just Will. They have stuff in common— live by the rules of the untangle the mystery surrounding her death including common enemies: the school jocks, Gladiator Sports Association. —and discover the true value of everything who seem to find bullying just another sport. But those rules can turn against you. When she is in danger of losing. Then Will has one very bad day, and now Lyn's seventh father dies in the ring, his nothing is funny. Ernie finds himself a opponent, Uber, captures Lyn's dowry witness—to loss, to humiliation, and to Will’s bracelet—and her hand in marriage. To win Brutal anger—an anger that’s building each and her freedom, Lyn will do what no girl has Michael B. Harmon every moment. done before: enter the arena and fight her father's murderer—even though she's falling Poe Holly finds herself on in love with him. the suburban doorstep of Dirty Little Secrets the father she never Cynthia Jaynes Omololu knew. Poe manages to Lucy’s secret is bigger and find a few friends: Theo, dirtier than most. It’s one she’s the cute guy in the been hiding for years. She’s anarchy T-shirt, and managed to keep her home life Velveeta, her oddly Gray Baby: A up with the most beautiful girls in school. But he's got an uncanny Novel ability to screw up in the very ways that tick Scott Loring Sanders off his father the most. When Liam finally gets kicked out of the At six, Clifton watched Hold Still house, his father's brother takes him in. as two white police Nina LaCour What could a teenage chick magnet possibly officers beat his black An arresting story about starting over have in common with his gay, glam rocker, father to death. The after a friend's suicide… Ingrid left DJ uncle who lives in a trailer in upstate New report called it an behind a painful farewell in her journal York? accident, but Clifton and his mother for Caitlin. Now Caitlin is left alone, by know the truth. Ten years Clifton has an idea loss and by choice, struggling to find Leviathan for his life. What if he was able to reach renewed hope in the wake of her best someone somewhere far away, and actually friend's suicide. The journal which once Scott Westerfield make a connection? So, he sets messages seemed only to chronicle Ingrid's descent In the cusp of World War I, there are the afloat with notes inside down the New River. into depression, becomes the tool by which German Clankers—steam-driven iron And amazingly, Clifton hears from Swamper, Caitlin once again reaches out to all those machines loaded with guns and ammunition who lives in a shack on the river, and they —and the British Darwinists—fabricated who loved Ingrid - and Caitlin herself. strike up a friendship. animals used as weaponry. Their Leviathan

Then a young girl is kidnapped, bringing is a whale airship, and the most masterful back all of his old demons. Clifton turns to beast in the British fleet. Swamper for help, discovering the truth Into the Wild Nerd Yonder Aleksandar Ferdinand, a Clanker, and Deryn about his family, his life, and himself. Julie Halpern Sharp, a Darwinist, are on opposite sides of Jessie is so excited to start her the war. When their paths cross in the most sophomore year of high school, unexpected way, they both end up aboard Hate List with her carefully planned the Leviathan on a fantastical, around-the- Jennifer Brown outfits and her ample stash of school world adventure….One that will change both supplies. But then things take an unexpected their lives forever. Five months ago, Valerie turn – her two best friends have gone Leftman's boyfriend, Nick, poseur-punk and are both flirting with her opened fire on their school Muchacho longtime crush. Her beloved older brother is cafeteria. Though shot trying to about to go off to college—and he shaved his LouAnne Johnson stop him, Valerie was implicated in the Mohawk and started dating the homecoming Eddie Corazon is angry. He’s also very shootings because of the list she helped smart. He’s working pretty hard at being a queen. Then she starts chatting up a girl in create, the Hate List. juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, and homeroom, and is invited to join the Now, Val is forced to confront her guilt as hangs with his cousins, who will always back she returns to school to complete her senior Dungeons and Dragons crowd. Will hanging him up—when they aren’t in jail. year. Val must come to grips with the out with them make her a nerd? Does it Then along comes Lupe, who makes his tragedy that took place and her role in it, in really matter? blood race. She sees something in Eddie he order to make amends and move on with her doesn’t even see in himself. A heart, and a life. mind, and something more: a poet. But in King of the Screwups Eddie’s world, it’s a thin line between K .L Going tragedy and glory.

Liam Geller is Mr. Popularity. Everybody loves him. He excels at sports; he knows exactly what clothes to wear; he always ends Once a Witch serving as a military ago. All he wants is to get a record deal as a Carolyn MacCullough policeman. Then Captain orders him to form rap music producer—so he pins his hopes on a rock band, and soon the band is traveling the “Unsigned Hype” demo contest at a local Tamsin Greene comes from a long line of through the jungle performing for troops in radio station. What he hasn't bargained for is witches, and she was supposed to be one of desperate need of an escape. For Dean—who all the attention he starts receiving after his the most talented among them. But Tamsin's lives with death, violence, and the fear that beats are played, when only his family magic never showed up. Now seventeen, anyone could be a potential spy (even his continues treating him the same, and that Tamsin attends boarding school in Vietnamese girlfriend)—the band becomes the one girl he truly wants isn't impressed by Manhattan, far from her family. But when a the one thing that gets him through the day. his newfound celebrity. handsome young professor mistakes her for During one of the most controversial wars in her talented sister, Tamsin agrees to find a recent American history, this incredible true lost family heirloom for him. The search story is about music and camaraderie in the sends Tamsin on a treasure hunt through midst of chaos. time that will unlock the secret of her true identity, unearth the sins of her family, and unleash a power so vengeful that it could Shiver destroy them all. Maggie Stiefvater Purple Heart Grace has spent years watching the wolves Patricia McCormick in the woods behind her house. One yellow- eyed wolf -- her wolf -- watches back. He When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a know why. Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps There's a memory that haunts him: an the silent company of the girl he loves. And image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits then, for a short time each year, he is his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that human, never daring to talk to Grace . . . he was somehow involved in his death, but until now. For Grace and Sam, love has he can't quite put all the pieces together. always been at a distance. But once spoken, Eventually Matt is sent back into combat it cannot be denied. with his squad. He sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. Unsigned Hype: A Novel Booker T. Mattison

Fifteen-year-old Tory Tyson knows that Rock n’ Roll Soldier finishing high school isn't going to help him Dean Ellis Kohler launch his hip-hop career as “Terror Tory” or Dean Kohler is about to make it big—he's vault him into fame and fortune. He doesn't finally scored a national record deal—when understand why his mom is pushing him to everything is put on hold by the arrival of his finish school and to get him to understand draft notice. Now he's in Qui Nhon, Vietnam, the Christian faith she discovered five years