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Calgary Teens Say These are the Best 2005!
• Feed by M. T. Anderson
 Titus and Violet are teenagers living in a future society where corporations define our
lives and lifestyles. Prosperous parents make sure to endow their newborn children with Feed: mini-computers with wireless Internet
connections that allow for constant commercials straight into your brain.
Finalist: National Book Award,
Los Angeles Times 
Book Prize, Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults (Cambridge, Mass: Candlewick Press).
• The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Matt is a clone. Livestock belong to el patron. Generally, human clones have their brains destroyed at birth,
but for some reason, Matt’s patron left his mind intact and Matt is now old enough to wonder why.
Winner: 2002 National Book Award, Newbery Honor Book 2003, Printz Honor Book 2003 (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster).
• Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
What happens when the son of the mob falls in love with the daughter of the FBI?
Even communications are a problem when your girlfriend’s dad is the agent in charge of
bugging your house.
Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults (Toronto: Scholastic Canada).
• The Loser's Club by John Lekich
Alex Sherwood, the center of the crowd of so-called losers in his high school,
comes up with a plan to rebel that will either inspire all losers everywhere to freedom or merely inspire them to rebel.
Shortlisted - Young Adult Book of the Year 2003,
Shortlisted: 2002 Governor General's Literary Award, Finalist,
2003 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize (Toronto: Annick Press).
• Tithe: a modern faerie tale by Holly Black
 Kaye never imagined that saving the life of the impossibly gorgeous Roiben would bring her to the attention of
the unseelie court, as the intended sacrifice for the tithe. Or does it?
(New York: Simon & Schuster Books).
• True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Martha Brooks
After stealing her boyfriend's money and truck, newly-pregnant Noreen lands
in the small town of Pembina Lake and finds herself becoming a new person after forming relationships with the town’s residents.
Winner Governor General’s Literary Medal, Winner 2003 Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year
(Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
• Overboard by Elizabeth Fama
While on a trip to visit her uncle, Emily escapes a sinking ferry
and finds herself - and a young, courageous Muslim boy - adrift in the waters off the islands of Sumatra.
(Chicago, Il: Cricket Books).
• Out of the Fire by Deborah Froese
A careless moment at a teen bonfire party changes
Dayle’s life forever and makes her examine her values and her relationships with her friends and family.
(Toronto: Sumach Press).
• Search of the Moon King's Daughter by Linda Holeman
When Emmeline’s mother sells her little brother to a master sweep
to get money for drams of opiate to take away her pain, Emmeline must leave everything to try and find him.
Honour Book, Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book of the Year (Toronto: Tundra Books).
• Dancing naked: a novel by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Kia, 16-years-old and pregnant, must
make the toughest decision of her life and find out what a true friend really is.
(Vancouver: Orca Books).
• Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson
The true story of a teen who worked with the survivors of the worst disaster in
U.S.naval history to
clear the name of the Indianapolis’ captain, who was wrongly court martialed for the tragedy, 50 years after the fact.
Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults (New York: Delacorte Press/Random House).
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