YA Stars 2006

The list includes both fiction and nonfiction books. Titles are arranged alphabetically by author. The edition listed is the trade book, library bindings are not listed unless that is the only available format. Titles received starred reviews from Booklist, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, School Library Journal, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Horn Book.

The theme information is derived from cataloging information and is not comprehensive. Books are suggested for ages 12 and older. Age and grade designations are approximate, parental judgement should be used.

Notable book information is added as time allows: BBYA= Best Books for Young Adults (ALA/YALSA)

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine or the Library of Congress CIP description, unless otherwise noted.

• Defining Dulcie
  Author: Acampora, Paul
  Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 0803730462 Date: 2006
  Booklist SLJ
  Quirky, uplifting, and written in a spare prose, this hopeful and humorous debut explores the connections made in life, the resilience of the human spirit, and the absurdities that keep life interesting.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• The Killer's Tears
  Author: Bondoux, Anne-Laure
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385732937 Date: 2006
  Booklist Bulletin PW
  The winner of France's prestigious Prix Sorcires, this novel follows a young boy who is taken by the man who has killed his family. Together the killer and the boy begin a new life on a remote and rugged stretch of land in Chile.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• The Road of the Dead
  Author: Brooks, Kevin
  Publisher: Chicken House $ 16.99 ISBN: 0439786231 Date: 2006
  PW Bulletin SLJ
  Blood runs thick when two brothers leave their London home on a journey to the ghostly moors of Devon to hunt down the truth about their sister's savage death.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Wabi: A Hero's Tale
  Author: Bruchac, Joseph
  Publisher: Dial $ 16.99 ISBN: 0803730985 Date: 2006
  Kirkus SLJ
  Told in an engagingly wry narrative voice, this new and exciting fantasy by the award-winning author of Code Talker is woven from classic elements of folklore, romance, and adventure.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Being Bindy
  Author: Brugman, Alyssa
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385732945 Date: 2006
  Bulletin SLJ
  Eighth grade is torture--at least it is for Bindy. To survive the drama in her life, Bindy must make some tough decisions in this funny, searching novel about being true to yourself.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Ask Me No Questions
  Author: Budhos, Marina Tamar
  Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 1416903518 Date: 2006
  Booklist Bulletin Horn Book
  The author of Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers pens a moving story about two teenage sisters, originally from Bangladesh, whose family lives illegally in New York City. After 9/11, immigration regulations change, forcing the family to seek asylum.
  Ages: 10-17 Category: Fiction
• Love, Football and Other Contact Sports
  Author: Carter, Alden R.
  Publisher: Holiday House $ 16.95 ISBN: 0823419754 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  Here are stories of students from one end of the social spectrum to the other. Jock to loner, academic snob to outcast, Carter explores and shatters the stereotypes behind the relationships, friends, rumors, peer pressure, sports, bullies, and other assorted forms of mental anguish that come with high school.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
  Author: Cohn, Rachel & David Levithan
  Publisher: Random $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375835318 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Told in alternating chapters, teeming with music references, humor, angst, and endearing side characters, this he said/she said romance is a sexy, funny roller coaster of a story about one date over one very long night, with two teenagers who are just trying to figure out who they want to be.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction
• Hit the Road
  Author: Cooney, Caroline B.
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 15.95 ISBN: 0385729448 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  Brit has had her driver's license only 11 days when her parents drop her off to stay at her grandmother's house for two weeks while they go on vacation. Little do they know Brit is headed for a three-state road trip with Nannie to pick up her college roommates and bring them to their alma mater for their 65th--and most likely final--reunion.
  Ages: 13-17 Category: Fiction | Suspense
• Copper Sun
  Author: Draper, Sharon M.
  Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689821816 Date: 2006
  Booklist SLJ Bulletin
  When slave traders invade Armari's village, she is dragged to a slave ship bound for the Carolinas. Bought by a plantation owner, Amari befriends a white indentured servant named Polly and struggles to hold on to her memories in the face of hopeless and despair.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction
• Drawing a Blank: Or How I Tried to Solve an Mystery, End a Feud, and Land the Girl of My Dreams
  Author: Ehrenhaft, Daniel
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060752521 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  A teenaged graphic novelist's life changes dramatically when he receives word that his father's been kidnapped. If only his comic book superheroine, Signy the Super-Bad, were able to help him save the day.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Humor | Mystery & Suspense
• Murkmere
  Author: Elliott, Patricia
  Publisher: Little Brown $16.99 ISBN: 0316010421 Date: 2006
  PW
  A compelling novel of dark secrets, powerful legends, and desire, this work takes readers into an unforgettable world. Sent to Murkmere manor to become a lady's companion, young villager Aggie soon becomes enmeshed in the sinister plots that surround Murkmere.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction | Speculative
• Day of the Scarab: Book Three of the Oracle Prophecies
  Author: Fisher, Catherine
  Publisher: Greenwillow $ 16.99 ISBN: 0060571632 Date: 2006
  Horn Book Kirkus
  In this epic tale, Archon returns to find that General Argelin has seized control. Whose new power is hidden in the sign of the Scarab? In the descent into anarchy, Mirany and the Archon must attempt a final journey through the Nine Gateways into death--and back.
  Ages: 10+ Category: Speculative Fiction
• Endgame
  Author: Garden, Nancy
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 0152054162 Date: 2006
  SLJ
  The award-winning author of Annie on my Mind once again goes out on a limb, this time to show readers the cruelty of bullying and the devastating effects it can have.
  Ages: 14+ Category: Fiction
• The Year the Gypsies Came
  Author: Glass, LInzi Alex
  Publisher: Holt $ 16.95 ISBN: 0805079998 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers--a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys--comes to stay, and their strange, compelling, and dangerous presence will leave the Iris family infinitely changed. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction
• Surrender
  Author: Hartnett, Sonya
  Publisher: Candlewick $ 16.99 ISBN: 0763627682 Date: 2006
  Bulletin Kirkus PW
  SURRENDER is a mesmerizing psychological thriller from extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett. As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving town and distant, punitive parents ensure that he is never allowed to forget the horrific mistake he made as a child. He has only two friends - his dog, Surrender, and the unruly wild boy, Finnigan, a shadowy doppelganger with whom the meek Gabriel once made a boyhood pact. But when a series of arson attacks grips the town, Gabriel realizes how unpredictable and dangerous Finnigan is. As events begin to spiral violently out of control, it becomes devastatingly clear that only the most extreme measures will rid Gabriel of Finnigan for good. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 14-18 Category: Fiction
• Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
  Author: Headley, Justina Chen
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 16.99 ISBN: 0316011282 Date: 2006
  PW
  Half Asian and half white, Patty Ho has never felt completely home in her skin. When a Chinese fortuneteller foresees a white guy on Patty's horizon, things go from bad to worse in this debut novel by a bright new talent.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction
• Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America
  Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
  Publisher: Scholastic $ 18.99 ISBN: 0439639018 Date: 2006
  Kirkus Booklist
  In this stunning nonfiction volume, an award-winning author weaves together the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers, illuminating the history of cotton in America. Illustrated with period photos.
  Ages: 9-12 Category: Nonfiction | History
• Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork
  Author: Hunt, Scott
  Publisher: Dutton $ 19.99 ISBN: 0525468188 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  For this intriguing collection, Hunt sent nine hauntingly surreal images to 18 authors and asked each one to write a story based on the image. Sometimes the same picture can tell two different stories, as this collection shows.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Short Stories
• Becoming Chloe
  Author: Hyde, Catherine Ryan
  Publisher: Knopf $ 15.95 ISBN: 0375832580 Date: 2006
  Kirkus Bulletin PW
  This deeply felt, redemptive novel by the acclaimed author of Pay It Forward reveals both the dark corners and hidden joys of life's journey--and the remarkable resilience of the human soul.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction
• Listening At the Gate
  Author: James, Betsy
  Publisher: Atheneum $ 16.95 ISBN: 0689850689 Date: 2006
  SLJ
  Taking a look at the evolution of legends and what happens to people when the myths on which they have founded their culture start to come true, this novel is a sweeping epic of love, identity, and change.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction
• Accidents of Nature
  Author: Johnson, Harriet McBryde
  Publisher: Holt $ 16.95 ISBN: 0805076344 Date: 2006
  PW SLJ
  Seventeen-year-old Jean has cerebral palsy, and has never really known another disabled person before she arrives at Camp Courage. As Jean joins a community unlike any she has ever imagined, she comes to question her old beliefs and look at the world in a new light.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial
  Author: Kidd, Ronald
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 15.95 ISBN: 1416905723 Date: 2006
  Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
  The author of Sizzle & Splat takes readers back in time to 1925 to the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. This novel unfolds from the point of view of a 15-year-old girl, a student of John Scopes.
  Ages: 11-14 Category: Fiction | Historical
• Freaks: Alive on the Inside
  Author: Klause, Annette Curtis
  Publisher: McElderry $ 16.95 ISBN: 068987037x Date: 2006
  Booklist Bulletin
  Set in a turn-of-the-century carnival, this new work from the author of Blood and Chocolate tells the story of a normal boy whose parents perform with other "abnormalities of nature." Determined to make a life for himself outside the freak show, Abel Dandy finds fortune and romance in the most unexpected places.
  Ages: 14+ Category: Fiction | Speculative | Action & Adventure
• Dreamhunter
  Author: Knox, Elizabeth
  Publisher: FSG $ 19 ISBN: 0374318530 Date: 2006
  Booklist Kirkus PW
  Laura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: it is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the Dreamhunters. These are individuals with special gifts: the ability to catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace, the Rainbow Opera. People travel from all around to experience the benefits of the hunters' unique visions. Now fifteen-year-old Laura and her cousin Rose, daughters of Dreamhunters, are eligible to test themselves at the Place and find out whether they qualify for the passage. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to discover. For within the Place lies a horrific secret kept hidden by corrupt members of the government. And when Laura's father, the man who discovered the Place, disappears, she realizes that this secret has the power to destroy everyone she loves . . . In the midst of a fascinating landscape, Laura's dreamy childhood is ending and a nightmare beginning. This rich novel, filled with beauty, danger, politics, and intrigue, comes to a powerful crescendo, leaving readers clamoring for Book Two. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 13-17 Category: Fiction | Speculative
• Time's Memory
  Author: Lester, Julius
  Publisher: FSG $ 17 ISBN: 0374371784 Date: 2006
  Bulletin PW
  In this powerful novel by National Book Award finalist Lester, Amma, the creator god, sends a young man to a plantation in Virginia where he becomes a slave on the eve of the Civil War. There, he is to find a way to bring peace to both the dead and the living.
  Ages: 13+ Category: Fiction | Historical | Speculative
• Things You Either Hate of Love
  Author: Lowry, Brigid
  Publisher: Holiday $ 16.95 ISBN: 0823420043 Date: 2006
  PW
  Georgia has to get to the Natural Affinity concert because she's obsessed with the band's lead singer, Jakob. However, there is one major obstacle standing in her way--money.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Eva Underground
  Author: MacKall, Dandi Daley
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 0152054626 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  In 1978, Eva Lott has an active social life and a lot to look forward to . . . until her dad decides they're moving to Communist Poland to help with a radical underground movement.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction
• On the Head of a Pin
  Author: Miller, Mary Beth
  Publisher: Dutton $ 16.99 ISBN: 0525477365 Date: 2006
  Booklist Bulletin
  From the author of Aimee--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults--comes this novel that offers a eye-opening view into a faithful boy's private hell, when the promise he makes to God is shattered the moment his friend picks up a rifle at the end of a drinking party.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction
• Dairy Queen
  Author: Murdock, Catherine Gilbert
  Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 0618683070 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Welcome to the summer that 15-year-old D.J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk--and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say. She realizes when people don't talk, much remains unsaid, like why her best friend, Amber, isn't so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Seeker
  Author: Nicholson, William
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 0152057684 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  An epic coming-of-age story about courage, friendship, desire, and faith launches a new Noble Warriors series with 16-year-old Seeker setting off to rescue his exiled brother and save the Nomana--and themselves--from destruction.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Speculative
• Summer of Kings
  Author: Nolan, Han
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 17 ISBN: 0152051082 Date: 2006
  Kirkus SLJ
  The National Book Award-winning author of Dancing on the Edge brings readers a bold new voice--by turns funny and poignant, innocent and worldly--in this powerful coming-of-age story set during the turbulent struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction | Historical
• Dear Miss Breed
  Author: Oppenheim, Joanne
  Publisher: Scholastic $ 22.95 ISBN: 0439569923 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  True stories of the Japanese-American incarceration during World War II are told. This book shares the correspondence between Clara Breed, a San Diego librarian, and dozens of Japanese-American children sent to internment camps after Pearl Harbor.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Nonfiction
• Between Mom and Jo
  Author: Peters, Julie Anne
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 16.99 ISBN: 0316739065 Date: 2006
  SLJ
  This new novel by National Book Award finalist Peters follows the emotional struggle of Nick, who has been raised by two moms. But everything changes when his birth mom and her wife Jo start to have problems. Suddenly, Nick is in the middle.
  Ages: 12 Category: Fiction
• King Dork
  Author: Portman, Frank
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 16.95 ISBN: 0385732910 Date: 2006
  Bulletin Kirkus SLJ
  In this coming-of-age, rock-and-roll, Da Vinci Code-style tale, high school loser Tom Henderson discovers his deceased father's copy of The Catcher in the Rye and finds himself in the middle of several interlocking conspiracies and at least half a dozen mysteries.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction | Mystery & Suspense
• Snow Apples
  Author: Razzell, Mary
  Publisher: Groundwood $ 15.95 ISBN: 0888997418 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  First published in 1984, Snow Apples remains a classic -- a gritty, uncompromising story about a young woman who struggles to choose her own path amidst formidable obstacles of family, place, and time. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 13+ Category: Fiction
• A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
  Author: Reinhardt, Dana
  Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 17.99 ISBN: 0385909403 Date: 2006
  Bulletin PW SLJ
  Simone's starting her junior year in high school. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, her dad's a political cartoonist, so she's grown up standing outside the organic food coop asking people to sign petitions for worthy causes. She's got a terrific younger brother and amazing friends. And she's got a secret crush on a really smart and funny guy-who spends all of his time with another girl. Then her birth mother contacts her. Simone's always known she was adopted, but she never wanted to know anything about it. She's happy with her family just as it is, thank you. She learns who her birth mother was-a 16-year-old girl named Rivka. Who is Rivka? Why has she contacted Simone? Why now? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known, and to question everything she once took for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• Undine
  Author: Russon, Penni
  Publisher: Greenwillow $ 15.99 ISBN: 0060793899 Date: 2006
  SLJ
  Haunting, mysterious, and breathtakingly beautiful, this first novel by Russon is a coming-of-age story like no other. A girl named Undine unleashes a powerful magic upon herself and those around her, at first unknowingly and then with purpose and increasing ease.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction | Speculative Fiction
• Small Steps
  Author: Sachar, Louis
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 16.95 ISBN: 0385733143 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  In his first major novel since Holes, the acclaimed author explores issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that determine a person's life, and what it takes to stay on course.
  Ages: 10-14 Category: Fiction
• Chew on Thie: Everything You Don't Want To Know About Fast Food
  Author: Schlosser, Eric & Charles Wilson
  Publisher: Houghton $ 16 ISBN: 0618710310 Date: 2006
  Booklist
  Schlosser, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller Fast Food Nation, and Wilson share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken "nugget" really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Nonfiction
• When the Wall Came down: the Berlin Wall and the Fall of Communism
  Author: Schmemmann, Serge
  Publisher: Larousse $ I15.95 SBN: 0753459949 Date: 2006
  PW
  This is history as only an eyewitness can tell it. In 1989, veteran journalist Serge Schmemann was in his hotel room when his assistant from East Germany burst in with some incredible news: the Berlin Wall was open. Serge jumped into the first cab he could find and raced to the wall in time to witness one of the great moments of European history. Including articles from the archives of The New York Times, this gripping narrative tells the whole story, from the division of Germany after World War II, to life in the Communist East, to the massive protests that brought an end to the Eastern Bloc, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 12- 14 Category: Nonfiction
• Enthusiasm
  Author: Shulman, Polly
  Publisher: Putnam $ 15.99 ISBN: 0399243895 Date: 2006
  Booklist Bulletin
  A first-time novelist pens a Jane Austen-inspired romantic comedy of errors as two girls get a part in the boys' school musical. What follows is a series of misinterpreted--and missed--signals, dating mishaps, and awkward incidents.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Romance
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
  Author: Stone, Tanya Lee
  Publisher: Wendy Lamb $ 16.99 ISBN: 0385909462 Date: 2006
  SLJ
  Josie, Nicolette, and Aviva all get mixed up with a senior boy-a cool, slick, sexy boy who can talk them into doing almost anything he wants. In a blur of high school hormones and personal doubt, each girl struggles with how much to give up and what ultimately to keep for herself. How do girls handle themselves? How much can a boy get away with? And in the end, who comes out on top? A bad boy may always be a bad boy. But this bad boy is about to meet three girls who won't back down.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction
• A True and Faithful Narrative
  Author: Sturtevant, Katherine
  Publisher: FSG $ 17 ISBN: 0374378096 Date: 2006
  Booklist SLJ
  In Restoration London, 16-year-old Meg Moore spends long hours conversing with the famous authors and poets who visit her father's bookstore, and even writes her own stories. Without warning, however, Meg comes to learn exactly how powerful words can be.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction | Historical
• Bernice Abbott, Photographer: Independent Vision
  Author: Sullivan, George
  Publisher: Clarion $ 20 ISBN: s Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Ages: 10-14 Category: Nonfiction | Biography
• Bowery Girl
  Author: Taylor, Kim
  Publisher: Viking $ 16.99 ISBN: 0670059668 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Set in New York's Bowery in 1883, this vibrant, carefully researched novel offers an unforgettable portrait of two young women--the pickpocket Mollie Flynn and the prostitute Annabelle Lee, who depend on each other for their very survival.
  Ages: 14-17 Category: Fiction | Historical
• Hard Hit
  Author: Turner, Ann Warren
  Publisher: Scholastic $ 16.99 ISBN: 0439296803 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  In this latest work from the author of the groundbreaking memoir Learning to Swim, 16-year-old high school baseball star Mark has an enviable life. However, when his father is diagnosed with cancer, everything Mark ever believed in is called into question.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction
• The Book Thief
  Author: Zusak, Markus
  Publisher: Knopf $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375831002 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Liesel Meminger, a foster child living outside Munich during World War II, scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books--in this unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Historical
• The Dreamwalker's Child
  Author: Voake, Steve
  Publisher: Bloomsbury $ 16.95 ISBN: 1582346615 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  Fifteen-year-old Sam Palmer's life is dull--until a bizarre bicycle accident leaves him in a coma. Sam awakens in Aurobon, a world eerily similar to his own, only to discover that his "accident" was part of an elaborate abduction by a ruler with a deadly agenda. Now Sam must team up with a fearless girl pilot to outwit the enemy. Otherwise, dark forces will invade his own world on insects the size of fighter jets. But that's "if" the terrifying marsh dogs don't kill him first. - Publisher Marketing
  Ages: 13-18 Category: Fiction | Speculative
• Skin
  Author: Vrettos, Adrienne Maria
  Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry $ 16.95 ISBN: 141690655X  Date: 2006
  Bulletin Kirkus
  Told from teenage Donnie's point of view, this brilliant debut novel shows how everything changes when Donnie's less-than-perfect family realizes that his sister Karen has an eating disorder.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction
• Specials
  Author: Westerfield, Scott
  Publisher: Simon Pulse $ 15.95 ISBN: 0689865406 Date: 2006
  Kirkus
  In this final book of Westerfield's trilogy, Tally has been transformed from a repellent ugly to supermodel pretty. Now she's a super-amped fighting machine. Her mission is to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. But Tally's never been good at playing by the rules.
  Ages: 12+ Category: Fiction | Speculative
• The Book Thief
  Author: Zusak, Markus
  Publisher: Knopf $ 16.95 ISBN: 0375831002 Date: 2006
  Bulletin Kirkus, Horn Book SLJ
  Liesel Meminger, a foster child living outside Munich during World War II, scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist--books--in this unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
  Ages: 12-17 Category: Fiction | Historical