2010 Quick Picks Nominations
Updated July 1, 2009
Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls. 2009. Viking Juvenile, $17.99 (978-0-6700-1110-0). Dying to be thin: painful to read, impossible to ignore.
Chmakova, Svetlana. Nightschool volume 1. 2009. Yen Press, $10.99. (978-0-7595-2849-4). Boarding school for a different crowd: vampires, demons and witches. The lights may be off but the learning is still going on.
Draper, Sharon M. Just Another Hero. 2009. Simon & Schuster/Antheneum, $16.99 (978-1-4169-0700-80). Who is stealing? Who is setting off the school fire alarm? Will Kofi get off drugs? Will Arielle ever feel at home with her controlling stepfather? Will anyone step up to be a true hero?
Elkeles, Simone. Perfect Chemistry. 2008. Walker Books, $9.99 (978-0-802-79822-0). It's not exactly love at first sight between Alex Fuentes: gang member and Brittany Ellis: pretty, privileged and with a seemingly perfect life.
Forman, Gail. If I Stay. 2009. Dutton Children's Books, $16.99 (978-0-525-42103-0 ). A car accident kills Mia’s parents and younger brother. While in the hospital, Mia has an out of body experience and must decide whether she wants to join her family or live.
Horvath, David. Ugly Guide to Being Alive and Staying that Way: Hi! It's the Uglydoll. 2009. Random House, $5.99 (978-0-375-85702-7). A guide to living a successful monster's life. Learn the secrets of school, college, jobs, and everyday life in the Ugly world.
Johnston, Antony and Wilson Tortosa. Wolverine 1: The Prodigal Son. 2009. Random House/Del Rey, $12.99 (978-0-345-50516-3). X-Men's Wolverine, a.k.a. Logan, is a teenage rebel with a real good reason for having a real bad attitude.
Johnson, LouAnne. Muchacho. 2009. Random House/Knopf, $15.99 (978-0-375-96117-5). Eddie makes a mistake and gives his mom a certificate for her birthday saying he is going to stay in school and graduate. Trouble is, he's in alt ed and really angry.
Knowles, Jo. Jumping Off Swings. 2009. Candlewick Press, $16.99 (978-0-763-63949-5). One pregnancy seen through the eyes of four friends.
Lynch, Janet Nichols. Messed Up. 2009. Holiday House, $17.95 (978-0-8234-2185-5). Can fifteen-year-old R.D. make it on his own? He never knew his father, his mother is in prison, his grandmother has run off with a trucker, and his step-grandfather just died.
McDaniel, Lurlene. Breathless. 2009. Delacorte Press, $10.99 (987-0-385-73459-2). Four friends face the toughest decision ever - life or death.
Malkin, Nina. Swoon. 2009. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 (978-1-4169-7434-5). Ghosts set on revenge.
Mawji, Nasim, Chris Doherty, and Burt Jensen. Hollywoof! Celebrity Dogs Bite Back. 2008. DK Books, $9.95. (978-0-756-63682-1). What are dogs thinking of their famous owners?
Millner, Denene and Miller, Mitzi. What Goes Around: a Hotlanta Novel. 2009. Scholastic/Point, $9.99 (978-0-545-00310-0). The thrilling conclusion to the mystery of the Duke girl's past!
Myers, Walter Dean. Dope Sick. 2009. Amistad, $16.99 (978-0061214776). Life on the streets with a supernatural twist.
Reger, Rob and Jessica Gruner. Emily the Strange: the lost days. 2009. HarperCollins, $16.99 (978-0-06-145229-1). Emily has amnesia and that's not her only problem.
St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels. 2009. Penguin/Razorbill, $9.99 ( 978-1-59514-251-1). Knife wielding female demon killer meets a hot goth wolf-boy and a hot blue-eyed vampire. Action ensues.
Scott, Elizabeth. Something, Maybe. 2009. Simon Pulse, $16.99 (978-1-4169-7865-7). Imagine if Hugh Hefner is your dad and one of his sexy "bunnies" is your mom.
Shan, Darren and Takahir Arai. Cirque du Freak: the manga Vol 1. 2009. Yen Press, $10.99 (978-0-7595-3041-6). One visit to a freak show lands a boy in a world of vicious vampires.
Simone, Ni-Ni. If I Was Your Girl. 2008. Dafina, $11.95 ( 978-0-7582-2841-3). From the hottest girl around to 17 year old mom of a baby boy.
Singleton, Linda Joy. Dead Girl Walking. 2008. Llewellyn/Flux, $9.95 (978-0-7387-1405-9). Hit by a truck and waking up in the wrong body, Amber races time to save her own brain-dead body from being unplugged.
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Deadly Little Secret. 2008. Hyperion/Disney, 15.99 (978-1—4231-1144-3). 16-year-old Camelia's life is fairly mundane until mysterious Ben starts at her high school, her life becomes anything but ordinary.
Volponi, Paul. Response. 2009. Penguin/Viking, $15.99 (978-0-670-06283-6). Sure, he was planning on stealing a car, but does that justify a brutal beating that is racially motivated?
Williams, Carol Lynch. The Chosen One. 2009. St. Martin's/Griffin, $16.95 (978-0-312-55511-5). Can thirteen-year-old Kyra save herself from having to become her sixty-year-old uncle's seventh wife?
Williams-Garcia, Rita . Jumped. 2009. HarperCollins/Amistad, $16.99 (978-0-06-076092-2). Keeping quiet has a price. Trina gets jumped.
Nonfiction
Blackshaw, Ric and Farrelly, Liz. Street Art Book : 60 Artists in their own words. 2009. HarperCollins, 29.95 (978-0-06-153732-5). Graffiti artists talk life, art and inspiration.
Brown, Marvelyn. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive. 2008. Amistad, $14.95 (978-0061562396). How 19 year old Marvelyn contracted HIV and lives to talk about it.
Bull, Martin. Banksy. 2009. PM Press, $20.00 (978-1-60486-060-3). Check out London's streets through the work of guerilla art icon Banksy.
Crowley, Michael. 08: a Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail. 2009. Random House/Three Rivers Press, $17.95 (978-0-307-40511-1). Humor, sarcasm, and tragedy all blend together perfectly, leading to the election of Barak Obama.
Davidson, Tony. One-track Mind: a Revealing Insight into the Obsessed Minds of Men. 2009. Random House/Virgin, $12.95 (978-0-753-51690-4). Most teenagers, whether they are male or female, spend an enormous amount of time obsessing over the size, shape, and appeal of two specific features.
Fershleiser, Rachel and Larry Smith. I Can't Keep my Own Secrets: Six-word memoirs by teens famous and obscure. 2009. Harper Collins/HarperTeen, $8.99, (978-0-06-172684-2). Hit and ran. Crashed and burned. And other great life stories.
Hardwicke, Catherine. Twilight Director's Notebook. 2009. Little Brown, $17.99 (978-0-3160-7052-2). The director of Twilight explains all in her on-set journal.
Jenisch, Josh. Art of the Video Game. 2008 .Quirk, $40.00 (978-159-474-2774). The digital artistry of all your favorite video games.
Karg, Barb. Girl's Guide to Vampires: All You Need to Know about the Original Bad Boys. 2009. Adams Media, $8.95 (978-1-60550-819-1). Learn the history and allure of everyone's favorite creature of the night.
Miller, Kerry. Passive Aggressive Notes : Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings from Shared Spaces the World Over. 2008. Harper Collins, $13.95 (978-0-0616-3059-0) Little situations take on a whole new meaning when posted as a note.
O'Meara, Stephen James. Are You Afraid Yet? The Science Behind Scary Stuff. 2009. Kids Can Press, $17.95 (978-1-5545-3294-0 9). Uncover the scientific truth about King Kong, severed heads, vampires, werewolves, and more.
Oser, Bodhi. Fuck the World. 2009. Chronicle Books, $16.95 (978-0-8118-6645-3). Signs all over the world - with one F-word added.
Radtke, Oliver Lutz. More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues. 2009. Gibbs-Smith, $7.99 (978-1-4236-0584-3). Leaning on the poor prohibited. If we don't protect the forest, we will find only dingy around without another color. Have a cool vegetable of domestic life: binaural infected cucumber. Yum!
Sims, Michael. In the Womb: Animals. 2009. National Geographic Society, $ 26.00 (978-1-4262-0175-2). Incredible photos of dogs, kangaroos, elephants and sharks in the womb. See where no eyes have seen before!
Smith, Larry and Rachel Fershleiser. Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure. 2009. Harper Perennial, $10.00 (978-0061714627). "He posted our sex tape online." And more.
Smith, Lauren and Derek Fagerstrom. Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exotic. 2008. Collins Design, $24.95 (978-0-0616-6257-1). Hands-on, simplified directions for doing everything from fighting a shark to hemming jeans.
Stutts, Ryan. The Skateboarding Field Manual. 2009. Firefly , $19.95 (978-1-55407-362-7). Skateboarding 101: Evolution of the Sport, Tricks, Skatepark Etiquette and dealing with the law.
Von D, Kat . High Voltage Tattoo. 2009. HarperCollins, $29.99 (978-0-06-168438-8). Famed L.A. tattoo artist talks ink and rock-n-roll.
Willin, Melvyn. Paranormal Caught on Film. 2008. David and Charles, $16.99 (978-0715329801) Are they real, or aren't they?
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