arkansas library association conference october 6, 2015

Arkansas Library Association ConferenceOctober 6, 2015

Jami Kath HarrisonCentral Arkansas Library

System

Linda GreenConway County Library

Nina DarleyJonesboro Public Library

ARTBA Steering Committee

arteenbookaward@gmail.com

Alicia MurrayRose Bud High School

Lynette ThetfordNettleton Junior High

School

Katherine HigginbottomCedar Ridge High School

Cathy HowserArkansas State Library

Arkansas Teen Book Award

2015-16 Teen Voting List

Level 1Grades 7 - 9

A tale set in the aftermath of a devastating tornado finds Midwestern teen Jersey Cameron struggling with the loss of her mother, younger sister and home after being sent to live with other family members, who help her confront painful family dynamics.

It Takes a Graveyard to Raise a Child.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead.There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

When Claire Graham returns to Amble, Ohio, to search for her missing younger sister, Ella, she must keep her wolf hallucinations at bay and face the mystery of what really happened two years ago, and whether it is happening again now.

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they find themselves with a whole new set of problems. One of the local teens - just a couple of years older than Rose and Windy - is caught up in something bad... Something life threatening.

When seventeen-year-old Lucy Aimes moves to New Orleans and meets Alex, a boy who behaves as if they've known each other forever, she becomes caught up in a centuries-old vendetta resulting in a vicious murder. Now trapped in a dangerous crossfire, Lucy must act fast to save her future—and everyone she loves.

Surviving in a future spacefaring universe by stealing unsecured metatech, Jeth Seagrave and his talented crew of teen mercenaries outmaneuver corrupt Confederation laws while trying to recover Jeth's parents' ship before stumbling across galaxy-threatening information.

Level 2Grades 10 - 12

Taught by her father to hide her thoughts and control her emotions in order to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia, clairvoyant Yulia is captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy to help undermine the U.S. space program.

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artista nearly impossible dream for a girl.

A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah.

Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”—though coming back might be a problem.

In this modern retelling of the Persephone myth, Haden Lord, the disgraced prince of the Underrealm, is sent to the mortal world to entice a girl into returning with him to the land of the dead.

Danny Wright, seventeen, joined the Idaho Army National Guard to serve the country as his father had, but when the Guard is sent to an anti-government protest in Boise and Danny's gun accidently fires, he finds himself at the center of a conflict that results in the federal government declaring war on Idaho.

Enduring perpetual mishaps in her efforts to time-travel for her Quantum Paradox 101 class, 23rd-century teen Bree pursues a romance with a boy from the past and must outmaneuver a saboteur who is triggering dangerous accidents in multiple time periods.

Graduating from their school's special education program, aggressive Quincy and shy Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and gradually discover unexpected things they share in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.

Four years after Theo's best friend, Donovan, disappeared at age 13, he is found and brought home, and Theo puts her health at risk as she decides whether to tell the truth about the abductor, knowing that her revelation could end her lifelong dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer.