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2018-2019 North Carolina Young Adult Book Award

Ghost

(Book #1 of Track)
By Jason Reynolds
This edition: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publication date: August 30, 2016
Ages: 10 - 99

A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Ghost...

2019 - 2020 North Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominee

Dry

By Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
This edition: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: October 02, 2018
Ages: 12 - 99

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing...