2010-2011 High School KBA Nominees. The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her.

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High School KBA Nominees

The youngest of three siblings, fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action. Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chatas  2009 Viking

Funny How Things Change by Melissa Wyatt  2009 Farrar, Straus, Giroux Remy, a talented, seventeen- year-old auto mechanic, questions his decision to join his girlfriend when she starts college in Pennsylvania, after a visiting artist helps him realize what his family home in a dying West Virginia mountain town means to him. Funny

Hate List by Jennifer Brown  2009 Little Brown & Co. Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain. Hate List

If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser  2009 Simon & Shuster Growing up in the inner- city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control. If I Grow Up

If I Stay by Gayle Forman  2009 Dutton While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen- year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death. If I Stay

In the Path of Falling Objects by Andrew Smith  2009 Feiwel & Friends In 1970, after their older brother is shipped off to Vietnam, sixteen-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father, who is being released from an Arizona prison, but soon find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer. In the Path of Falling Objects

King of the Screwups by K.L. Goings  2009 Harcourt Liam Geller is one of the most popular boys in school but can't seem to do anything right in the eyes of his father; so he goes to live with his homosexual, rocker uncle who helps him to understand that there is much more to him than his father will ever see.

Liar by Justine Larbalestier  2009 Bloomsbury Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered. Liar

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow  2008 TOR Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. Little Brother

Maze Runner by James Dashner  2009 Delacorte Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. Maze Runner