Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers.
Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.)
* Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Forbidden city : a novel / William Bell.
1991 Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award
* Seventeen-year-old Alex joined his father, a cameraman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in China in 1989. As outsiders they faced a time of upheaval as political demonstrations began in Tian An Men Square.
Rebellion : a novel of Upper Canada by Marianne Brandis ; ... with scratchboard illustrations by Gerard Brender à Brandis
1996 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
* Fourteen-year-old Adam Wheeler has come to Toronto from England with his uncle's family, sent away by his own father like an unwanted parcel. Almost at once he sets out on his own and finds a job at the York Paper Mill on the eve of William Lyon MacKenzie's rebellion.
Bud, not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis.
Newbery Medal/Honor
* Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids
Monster / Walter Dean Myers ; illustrations by Christopher Myers.
Coretta Scott King Award
* While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Paddy Clarke : ha ha ha / Roddy Doyle.
Booker Prize, 1993
* Patrick Clarke is ten and wants to get out of the Corporation housing and become a missionary like Father Damien. Before he can, he needs to decipher some of the things he sees and to understand more about people and what motivates them.
Color purple / Alice Walker.
Pulitzer Prize
* Tells the story of two sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the South, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God."
The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
Pulitzer Prize
* Joe Kavalier has managed to escape from Nazi-occupied Prague, and now he must use his cunning wits to help rescue his family from Hitler's evil plans.
