Heartland+Award+and+Literature+Festival

  **The Heartland Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature**     ** The 2008 Winning Book is: __Crossing the Wire__ by Will Hobbs ** **The 2009 Heartland Finalists. **     ||  || **<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 102);">__i__ **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua,Times New Roman,Times;"> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua,Times New Roman,Times;"> <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua,Times New Roman,Times;">**__The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian__ by Sherman Alexie** __Deadline__ by Chris Crutcher __Sold__ by Patricia McCormick __Life as We Knew It__ by Susan Beth Pfeffer __Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath__ by Stephanie Hemphill __A Brief Chapter of My Impossible Life__ by Dana Reinhardt __Rules of Survival__ by Nancy Werlin __American Born Chinese__ by Gene Luen Yang __Elsewhere__ by Gabrielle Zevin** <span style="font-family: Book Antiqua,Times New Roman,Times;">**For summaries for each book, click here: [|__http://wrhslibrary.blogspot.com/__]** ||   ||
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 * __Th1rteen R3asons Why__ by Jay Asher