FICTION :
- Wintergirls, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder).
- Marcelo in the real world, by Francisco Stork (Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm).
- The Astonish Life of Octavian Nothing, by M.T. Anderson (Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War).
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Brian Selznick (Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot).
