RI Teen Book Award: Current Year RITBA Nominees
The goal of the Rhode Island Teen Book Award is to promote quality literature for teens by highlighting well-written books that will be of interest to those between the ages of 12 and 18 years of age.
It is the hope of the committee that by allowing te
The Rhode Island Teen Book Award
The goal of the Rhode Island Teen Book Award is to promote quality literature for teens by highlighting well-written books that will be of interest to those between the ages of 12 and 18 years of age. It is the hope of the committee that by allowing teens to select the winner from each year's list of nominees, teens will be encouraged to not only read more, but also discuss the books they are reading with their friends and family at school, the local library, and at home.
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RITBA 2021
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East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
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East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The Audiobook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The eBook and Audiobook are available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The Audiobook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, eBook , book on CD, and portable PlayAway available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print and eBook available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, book on CD, and eBook available as well.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, book on CD, book on CD, and eBook available.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, book on CD, and eBook available as well.
The East Greenwich Free Library has print and eBook available.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, book on CD, and eBook available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, book on CD, and eBook available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, eBook , book on CD, and portable PlayAway available as well.
The eBook and Audiobook are available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, and eBook available as well.
The East Greenwich Free Library has print and eBook available.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print, audio, eBook , and book on CD available as well.
The eBook is available on the EGHS Library catalog. Log in with five-digit lunch ID and password EGR.
East Greenwich Free Library has print and eBook available as well.
The East Greenwich Free Library has print and eBook available.
2021 RITBA Nominees - Book Descriptions
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As Many Nows As I Can Get by In one impulsive moment the summer before they leave for college, overachievers Scarlett and David plunge into an irresistible swirl of romance, particle physics, and questionable decisions.
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Aurora Rising by The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but he is stuck with the dregs nobody else would touch: A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm. A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates. A smart-ass tech whiz with the galaxy's biggest chip on his shoulder. An alien warrior with anger-management issues. A tomboy pilot who's totally not into him, in case you were wondering. And Ty's squad isn't even his biggest problem--that'd be Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, the girl he's just rescued from interdimensional space. NOBODY PANIC.
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Birthday by Two best friends. A shared birthday. Six years... ERIC: There was the minute Morgan and I decided we were best friends for life. The years where we stuck by each other's side--as Morgan's mom died, as he moved across town, as I joined the football team, as my parents started fighting. But sometimes I worry that Morgan and I won't be best friends forever. MORGAN: I know that every birthday should feel like a new beginning, but I'm trapped in this mixed-up body, in this wrong life, in Nowheresville, Tennessee, on repeat. With a dad who cares about his football team more than me, a mom I miss more than anything, and a best friend who can never know my biggest secret. Maybe one day I'll be ready to become the person I am inside. To become her. To tell the world. To tell Eric. But when?
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The Cheerleaders by Five years ago all the Sunnybrook cheerleaders died: two in a car accident, two by murder, one by suicide. Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. The faculty and students at Sunnybrook High want to remember the lost cheerleaders-- but Monica just wants to forget. Her sister Jen was the last to die-- the suicide. And now Monica's world is starting to unravel. There are the letters in her stepdad's desk, an unearthed, years-old cell phone, a strange new friend at school. Whatever happened five years ago isn't over... some people in town know more than they're saying... and no-one else is safe.
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Frankly in Love by Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong? Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California. Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit Means. Brit, who is funny and nerdy just like him. Brit, who makes him laugh like no one else. Brit.. who is white. As Frank falls in love for the very first time, he's forced to confront the fact that while his parents sacrificed everything to raise him in the land of opportunity, their traditional expectations don't leave a lot of room for him to be a regular American teen.
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Alaine Beauparlant has heard about Haiti all her life... But the stories were always passed down from her dad--and her mom, when she wasn't too busy with her high-profile newscaster gig. But when Alaine's life goes a bit sideways, it's time to finally visit Haiti herself. What she learns about Haiti's proud history as the world's first black republic is one thing, but what she learns about her own family is another. Suddenly, the secrets Alaine's mom has been keeping can no longer be avoided.
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Internment by Rebellions are built on hope. Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards.
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I Wish You All the Best by When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.
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Kiss Number 8 by Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. She goofs off with her best friend Cat, and has thus far managed to avoid getting kissed by Adam, the boy next door. It's everything she hoped high school would be... until all of a sudden, it's not. Mads is starting to figure out that she doesn't want to kiss Adam... because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat. Just like that, Mads's tidy little life has gotten epically messy--and epically heartbreaking.
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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up with Me by Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: Break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. GRAPHIC NOVEL.
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn't mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph's music lie forgotten under his bed after he's murdered--not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph's younger sister Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: the Architect. Soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When his demo catches the attention of a hotheaded music label rep, the trio must prove Steph's talent from beyond the grave. As the pressure of keeping their secret grows, Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine are forced to confront the truth about what happened to Steph. Only, each has something to hide.
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Like a Love Story by It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man with AIDS who devotes his time to activism as a member of ACT UP. Judy has never imagined finding romance...until she falls for Reza and they start dating. Art is Judy's best friend, their school's only out and proud teen. He'll never be who his conservative parents want him to be, so he rebels by documenting the AIDS crisis through his photographs. As Reza and Art grow closer, Reza struggles to find a way out of his deception that won't break Judy's heart--and destroy the most meaningful friendship he's ever known.
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Love from a to Z by Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
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Ordinary Hazards by In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse. Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduring companions.
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Patron Saints of Nothing by Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it.
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Pet by There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question--How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
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Serpent and Dove by Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. As a huntsman of the Church, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. But when Lou pulls a wicked stunt, the two are forced into an impossible situation--marriage. Lou, unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, must make a choice. And love makes fools of us all.
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The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig (a Love Story) by The worst thing that's ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Craig and Amy should never have gotten together - Craig is a Dungeons and Dragons master with no life skills and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student body president of their high school. Yet somehow they did until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Seven times to be exact. Over the course of their senior year, Amy and Craig's exhilarating, tumultuous relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy and pain as an uncertain future - and adult responsibility - looms on the horizon.
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They Called Us Enemy by In 1942, at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, every person of Japanese descent on the west coast was rounded up and shipped to one of ten "relocation centers," hundreds or thousands of miles from home, where they would be held for years under armed guard.
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by When Frankie's mother died, her father left Frankie and her sister, Toni, abandoned alongside so many other orphans--two young, unwanted women doing everything they can to survive. And as the embers of the Great Depression are kindled into the fires of World War II, and the shadows of injustice, poverty, and death walk the streets in broad daylight, it will be up to Frankie to find something worth holding on to in ruins of this shattered America--every minute of every day spent wondering if the life she's able to carve out will be enough. I will admit I do not know the answer. But I will be watching, waiting to find out. That's what ghosts do.
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We Are Here to Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults by Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.
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XL by WIll Daughtry is a late bloomer--at least, that's what everyone tells him. On his sixteenth birthday, Will is just shy of five feet, and he is bitterly resigned to being tiny forever. His only comforts are his best friend and stepbrother, Drew (6'3"), and their pal Monica (5'10"), the girl Will's been quietly pining for since fifth grade. Everyone else literally overlooks him. But then he starts to grow. And grow fast. Astonishingly fast. For the first time, Will's happy with his stature, and the world's at his feet (for a change). People see him differently; more important, he sees himself differently. But the highest heights come with some low, low lows, and his most precious relationships suffer excruciating growing pains. Will has to figure out what to do with himself--and all of this new "himself" he never expected to have.
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