Iowa High School

2020–2021 BOOK AWARD

The Astonishing I Am Not Your Perfect They Both Die Color of After Mexican Daughter at the End Emily X.R. Pan Erika L. Sánchez Adam Silvera After her mother’s suicide, When the sister who In a near-future New York grief-stricken Leigh travels delighted their parents by her City where a service alerts to Taiwan to stay with faithful embrace of Mexican people on the day they will grandparents she has never culture dies in a tragic die, teenagers Mateo and met, determined to find her accident, Julia, who longs to Rufus meet using the Last mother who she believes go to college and move into Friend app and are faced turned into a bird. a home of her own, discovers with the challenge of living from mutual friends that her a lifetime on their End Day. sister may not have been as perfect as believed.

Children of Blood On the Come Up This is Not the End and Bone Angie Thomas Chandler Baker Tomi Adeyemi Sixteen-year-old Bri wants Lake is the survivor of a car Zélie, her older brother Tzain, to be one of the greatest crash that killed her best and rogue princess Amari rappers of all time, or at friend and boyfriend. Now fight to restore magic to the least make it out of her she faces an impossible land; but they are ruthlessly neighborhood one day. choice. Resurrection pursued by the crown prince, As the daughter of an technology changed the who believes the return of underground rap legend who world, but strict laws allow magic will mean the end of died before he hit big, Bri has just one resurrection per the monarchy. big shoes to fill. citizen, to be used on your eighteenth birthday or lost forever.

Dear Evan Hansen: Sadie A Very Large The Novel Courtney Summers Expanse of Sea Val Emmich with Told from the alternating Tahereh Mafi Steven Levenson, perspectives of Sadie, who A year after 9/11, Muslim Benj Pasek & Justin Paul runs away from her isolated teenager Shirin is tired of small Colorado town to When a letter that was never being stereotyped and has find her younger sister’s meant to be seen by anyone completely withdrawn from killer, and a true crime draws high school senior social life. Then she meets podcast exploring Sadie’s Evan Hansen into a family’s Ocean James in her biology disappearance. grief over the loss of their class and is tempted to son, Evan is given the chance actually let her guard down. of a lifetime—to belong.

Dry Shout We Are Okay Neal & Jarrod Laurie Halse Anderson Nina LaCour Shusterman This memoir in verse shares After picking up and A lengthy California drought the author’s life, covering her leaving everything behind escalates to catastrophic rape at thirteen, her difficult in California, eighteen-year- proportions, turning Alyssa’s early childhood, and her old Marin, with the help quiet suburban street into experiences surrounding of her former friend, must a war zone of desperation. the publication of Speak. confront her grief and the Alyssa is forced to make (Mature) truths that caused her to impossible choices if she and flee her home. her brother are to survive.

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