Carrie's+Annotations

Literocity 2010 Carrie’s Annotations Putnam’s, 2008. 153 p. (0-399-24654-1) Three girls in the New York come together and encounter acceptance and great maturity, despite their stark differences, as their love of Tupac Shakur's music binds them to one another. (Coretta Scott King Honor book; Newbery Honor 2009.)
 * //After Tupac & D Foster//** by Jacqueline Woodson.

Orca Book Publishers, 2009. 93 p. (978-1-55143-991-4) After serving time for a violent crime, Jojo returns to his neighborhood. He tries to rebuild his life while others wish only to do him harm. Stereotypes and assumptions are brought into questions in this story of second chances and revenge.
 * //Back//** by Norah McClintock**//.//**

Holt, 2009. 268 p. (0-8050-8721-4) Part biography/part love story, this tale of the courtship and marriage of Charles Darwin to his cousin, Emma Wedgwood, illuminates the challenges this scientist bore in his professional and personal life as he worked to develop his controversial theory of evolution. (Best Books For Young Adults 2010; Best Books Of The Year 2009; Bulletin Blue Ribbons 2009 - Nonfiction; Notable Books of the Year 2009 : Children; YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for YA - 2010.)
 * //Charles and Emma:The Darwins’ Leap of Faith//** by Deborah Heiligman.

The Dial Press, 2008. 288 p.( 978-0385340991) World War II on a small but crucial English Channel island comes to life through the people that live here and their heroic feats against the Nazi Occupation, told through the letters of author Juliet Ashton and her dear friends, both old and new. (Best Books of 2008)
 * //The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society//** by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

**// Marcelo and the Real World //** by Francisco X. Stork. Arthur A. Levine Books, 2009. 312 p. ( 0-545-05474-5) Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy diagnosed with Asperger’s, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm. (Best Books For Young Adults 2010; Best Books Of The Year 2009; Notable Books of the Year 2009 : Children; PW's Best Children's Books 2009; Schneider Family Book Award: Teen - 2010.)

//**Shadowed Summer**// by Saundra Mitchell. Delacorte Press, 2009. (978-0-385-73571-1**//)//** A long-lost boy, a voice in her ear, a love triangle, and a strained friendship all coincide for Iris in the summer of her 14th year.

**//Shiver//** by Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press. 2009. 400 p. ( 978-0545123266) 17-year-old Grace struggles to balance the love she feels for the wolf that lives behind her house (and saved her life when she was nine) with the attraction she feels for the boy, Sam, as she realizes that these two loves are closely intertwined. (Sequel: //Linger//). (Best Books For Young Adults 2010; Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror 2009; Florida - Teens Read Award Nominees 2010-2011; PW's Best Children's Books 2009; Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers 2010; Shiver Trilogy.)

**// Thirteen Reasons Why //** by Jay Asher. Razorbill, 2007. 304 p. (978-1595141712) Clay Jensen receives audiotapes from a classmate, Hannah Baker, that sends him upon an emotional and riveting 24 hour journey to discern the part he played (along with others) in her suicide.