2015 Tayshas Reading

Awards List

Young Adult

Boy Nobody // I Am the Weapon
(Highly Commended)
Allen Zadoff

Chasing Shadows
(Highly Commended)
Swati Avasthi

The Scar Boys
(Highly Commended)
Len Vlahos

When I Was the Greatest
(Highly Commended)
Jason Reynolds

The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
(Highly Commended)
Kate Hattemer

Torn Away
(Highly Commended)
Jennifer Brown

Girls Like Us
(Highly Commended)
Gail Giles

100 Sideways Miles
(Highly Commended)
Andrew Smith

I'll Give You the Sun
(Highly Commended)
Jandy Nelson

Rotten
(Commended)
Michael Northrop

Proxy
(Commended)
Alex London

Extremities: Stories of Death, Murder, and Revenge
(Commended)
David Lubar

Jumped in
(Commended)
Patrick Flores-Scott

More Than This
(Commended)
Patrick Ness

Coaltown Jesus
(Commended)
Ron Koertge

Freakboy
(Commended)
Kristin Clark

The Midnight Dress
(Commended)
Karen Foxlee

Perfect Ruin
(Commended)
Lauren DeStefano

Sex & Violence
(Commended)
Carrie Mesrobian

Foul Trouble
(Commended)
John Feinstein

Ketchup Clouds // Yours Truly
(Commended)
Annabel Pitcher

The Living
(Commended)
Matt De La Pena

Fake Id
(Commended)
Lamar Giles

The Impossible Knife of Memory
(Commended)
Laurie Halse Anderson

And We Stay
(Commended)
Jenny Hubbard

Cruel Beauty
(Commended)
Rosamund Hodge

The Glass Casket
(Commended)
McCormick Templeman

Grasshopper Jungle
(Commended)
Andrew Smith

The Hit
(Commended)
Melvin Burgess

The Well's End
(Commended)
Seth Fishman

Don't Even Think About It
(Commended)
Sarah Mlynowski

Half Bad
(Commended)
Sally Green

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
(Commended)
Leslye Walton

Dirt Bikes, Drones, and Other Ways to Fly
(Commended)
Conrad Wesselhoeft

Don't Look Back
(Commended)
Jennifer L. Armentrout

Going Over
(Commended)
Beth Kephart

Love Letters to the Dead
(Commended)
Ava Dellaira

Noggin
(Commended)
John Corey Whaley

She Is Not Invisible
(Commended)
Marcus Sedgwick

This Side of Salvation
(Commended)
Jeri Smith-Ready

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
(Commended)
Jenny Han

Bird Box
(Commended)
Josh Malerman

Buzz Kill
(Commended)
Beth Fantaskey

Everything Leads to You
(Commended)
Nina LaCour

Free to Fall
(Commended)
Lauren Miller

Tease
(Commended)
Amanda Maciel

We Were Liars
(Commended)
E. Lockhart

Complicit
(Commended)
Stephanie Kuehn

The Prince of Venice Beach
(Commended)
Blake Nelson

Conversion
(Commended)
Katherine Howe

The Kiss of Deception
(Commended)
Mary E. Pearson

The Vanishing Season
(Commended)
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Wildflower
(Commended)
Alecia Whitaker

Knockout Games
(Commended)
G. Neri

Monstrous Affections
(Commended)
Candlewick Press

Sway
(Commended)
Kat Spears

Althea and Oliver
(Commended)
Cristina Moracho

Belzhar
(Commended)
Meg Wolitzer

Perfectly Good White Boy
(Commended)
Carrie Mesrobian

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