Alex Awards The Alex Awards honor ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. 2004 Wonder When You’ll Miss Me, by Amanda Davis The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by Z.Z. Packer Stiff, by Mary Roach True Notebooks, by Mark Salzman Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear Leave Myself Behind, by Bart Yates 2003 One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry My Losing Season by Pat Conroy Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril by Timothy Ferris The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Crow Lake by Mary Lawson The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate 10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg 2002 Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, by William Doyle Gabriel's Story, by David Anthony Durham Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in Boom-Time America, by Barbara Ehrenreich Peace like a River, by Leif Enger The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife, by Kobie Kruger Kit's Law, by Donna Morrissey The Rover, by Mel Odom Motherland, by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, by Rebecca Walker 2001 Chang And Eng, by Darin Strauss Counting Coup, by Larry Colton Daughter Of The Forest, by Juliet Marillier Diamond Dogs, by Alan Watt Flags Of Our Fathers, by James Bradley and Ron Powers The Girl With A Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of The Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick The Man Who Ate The 747, by Ben Sherwood The Sand Reckoner, by Gillian Bradshaw Soldier: A Poet's Childhood, by June Jordan 2000 High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher's First Year by Esmé Raji Codell The Reappearance of Sam Webber by Jonathon Scott Fuqua Stardust by Neil Gaiman The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey by Linda Greenlaw Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Trevino Hart Plainsong by Kent Haruf Imani All Mine by Connie Porter 1999 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander Getting In  by James Finney Boylan Needles  by Andie Dominick At All Costs by John Gilstrap Space by Jesse Lee Kercheval Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. Ed. by Robert Silverberg Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson Almost a Woman by Esmeralda Santiago Caucasia by Danzy Senna 1998 The Secret Family: Twenty-four Hours inside the Mysterious Worlds of Our Minds and Bodies by David Bodanis All Over but the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America by Rebecca Carroll What Girls Learn by Karin Cook Snow in August by Pete Hamill The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea by Sebastian Junger Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakauer Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation by Velma Maia Thomas Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven by Dawn Turner Trice To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last by Connie Willis
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