Transcript Black Eyed Susan Book Awards - Sparrows Point High School

Maryland Black-Eyed Susan
Book Awards
High School
Nominated Books
2016-17
The Notorious Pagan Jones
by Nina Berry
Celebrity and former American sweetheart
Pagan Jones, having been sent to the
Lighthouse Reformatory for Wayward
Girls after causing a drunk diving accident
in which her entire family died, struggles
with her guilt as she is humiliated by the
sadistic Miss Edwards. When she is
offered a chance at freedom if she accepts
a role in an upcoming comedy, she decides
to take it, even though her court-appointed
guardian is the infuriating Devin Black,
who also happens to be handsome, and the
movie is being filmed in the divided city
of Berlin.
Saint Anything: A Novel
by Sarah Dessen
"Sydney's charismatic older
brother, Peyton, has always
been the center of attention in
the family but when he is sent
to jail, Sydney struggles to find
her place at home and the
world until she meets the
Chathams, including gentle,
protective Mac, who makes her
feel seen for the first time"
Stick
by
Michael Harmon
"Stick, a star football
player who's become
disenchanted with the
game, becomes friends
with Preston, a nerdy
kid who fights crime by
night."
How it Went Down
by
Kekla Magoon
When sixteen-year-old Tariq
Johnson is shot to death, his
community is thrown into an
uproar because Tariq was
black and the shooter, Jack
Franklin, is white, and in the
aftermath everyone has
something to say, but no two
accounts of the events agree.
Duimplin’
by
Julie Murphy
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean
wants to prove to everyone in
her small Texas town that she
is more than just a fat girl, so,
while grappling with her
feelings for a co-worker who is
clearly attracted to her, Will
and some other misfits prepare
to compete in the beauty
pageant her mother runs.
The Boy in the Black Suit
by
Jason Reynolds
Soon after his mother's death,
Matt takes a job at a funeral
home in his tough Brooklyn
neighborhood and, while
attending and assisting with
funerals, begins to accept her
death and his responsibilities
as a man.
The Dogs
by
Allan Stratton
Cameron is used to moving at a
moment's notice because he and his
mother are always running away from
his supposedly violent father, but he
is disturbed by their latest refuge, a
creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted
by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he
sees a boy hiding in the barn, and
finds an old picture of the same boy,
he starts wondering about the
possibility of human ghosts.
An Ember in the Ashes
by
Sabaa Tahir
"Laia is a Scholar living under
the iron-fisted rule of the
Martial Empire. When her
brother is arrested for treason,
Laia goes undercover as a slave
at the empire's greatest military
academy in exchange for
assistance from rebel Scholars
who claim that they will help to
save her brother from
execution"
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
by
Teresa Toten
"Adam not only is trying to
understand his OCD, while trying
to balance his relationship with
his divorced parents, but he's also
trying to navigate through the
issues that teenagers normally
face, namely the perils of young
love"—
Everything, Everything
by
Nicola Yoon
When a celebrated New York
City teenager, known for her
subversive street art,
mysteriously dies, her life is
examined in a series of
interviews with her parents,
friends, boyfriends, mentors,
and critics.
Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Award Nominees
2016-2017