Whitney Award Finalist and Winners 2023 | Wasatch County Library

The library has an exciting career opportunity for a Young Adult Services Librarian!

Do you have a passion for working with teens and tweens? Do you want to create new services and deliver them throughout Wasatch County? Learn more about this position and apply here.

The posting closes at 5:00 PM, May 10, 2024.

1) The letter carrier

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When the German march across Europe reaches France, young Michelle Naget and her family joing the throngs fleeing for safety. But their flight ends in capture by the Mazis, with one member of the family taken, while the rest of the family is sent back to their village of Braquis, France, to serve the enemy who has comandeered their home. For the next four years, the Nagets live in the crosshairs of the enemy living under their roof and of the neighbors...

2) Beneath the wide silk sky

Author

Inouye Huey, Emily

Description

With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.

3) The hope of elephants

Author

Hill, Amanda Rawson

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Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"In this novel in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's recurring cancers that have dominated her whole life, with the knowledge that he is likely to die soon because the latest recurrence is worse--and with the possibility that she may have inherited the genetic disease, Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, that causes the cancers" Provided by publisher. Told in blank verse, twelve-year-old Cass struggles to cope with her father's...

4) Evershore (Skyward Flight: Novella 3)

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Sanderson, Brandon

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From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the final of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Listen to Jorgen's story along with Cytonic.
With the government of Detritus in disarray because of Superiority treachery, and with Spensa still away on her mission in the Nowhere, Jorgen must work together with the alien Alanik to pick...

5) Star mother: a novel

Author

Holmberg, Charlie N

Series

Star mother volume 1

Description

The Sun God chooses the village of Endwever to provide a mortal womb. The birthing of a star is always fatal for the mother, and Ceris Wenden, who considers herself an outsider, sacrifices herself to secure her family's honor and take control of her legacy. But after her star child is born, Ceris does what no other star mother has: she survives. When Ceris returns to Endwever, however, it's not nine months later--it's seven hundred years later. Inexplicably...

6) Not Dead Yet / (Guardian Book 6)

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Abramson, Traci Hunter

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Description

For years, Troy has lived in the shadows as a Guardian. As part of this secret government taskforce, he has agreed to oversee the team's base of operations on a remote private island in Maine, replacing fellow agent Ace and his wife, Kristi, for a year. When Troy steps in to hold down the fort, however, he does not anticipate company. So when Kristi's sister, Jocelyn, appears on the island, looking for a getaway, Troy is unnerved by her presence--hiding...

7) Maybe I will

Author

Jacobson, Melanie

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook

Description

"He's an ambitious chef who takes big risks. She's a high-profile food critic with a secret identity. They've loathed each other for years. Except...not? Chloe Morel, junior reporter by day, has a secret by night: she's the most discerning--and notorious--food critic in New Orleans. Now one of the biggest food magazines in the business wants her, and she's on the verge of making her food writing dreams come true. Everything would be perfect--if only...

8) A brilliant night of stars and ice

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Connolly, Rebecca

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia--the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner ever built, RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Captain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with...

9) In the shadow of a queen

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"A fictional retelling of the life of Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who redefined the role of a princess in Victorian England"-- "Based on the true story of the free-spirited daughter of Queen Victoria. As a young woman, Princess Louise is considered the most beautiful and talented daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She is also strong-willed and resists following the queen's rigid rules...

10) The opera sisters: based on a true story

Author

Monson, Marianne

Description

"Based on the true story of Ida and Louise Cook, British sisters who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England"-- "Based on the true story of the Cook sisters, who smuggled valuables out of 1930s Nazi Germany to finance a daring, secret operation to help Jews find hope for a new life in England. British sisters Ida and Louise Cook enjoy their quiet, unassuming...

11) The unknown beloved: a novel

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"From the bestselling author of Where the Lost Wander and What the Wind Knows comes the evocative story of two people whose paths collide against the backdrop of mystery, murder, and the Great Depression."--Amazon.com. "Chicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there's more to the situation--and to Dani Flanagan herself--than...

12) Beguiling Birthright: The Extraordinaries, #6

Author

McShane, Melissa

Series

The Extraordinaries

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France, 1815. As a rifleman in Wellington's Army, Jennet Graeme conceals two secrets from her comrades in arms. She is no man, but a woman. And she, like Napoleon, is an Extraordinary Coercer, capable of controlling the minds and hearts of anyone she encounters. Fleeing a lifetime of manipulating others to her will, Jennet hopes to redeem herself by turning her talent to good rather than evil. But can a power that robs its victims of free will

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13) Facing the Enemy

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Lady Elise Henderson lives two separate lives. At home in Scotland, she’s the titled daughter of the Marquess of Roxbury, an heiress in her own right. In London, however, she’s Elise Taylor, a top MI6 operative for the “home office.” But when a devastating accident threatens to end her career, Elise is left with far too much time for self-reflection and the regret of a decision made long ago that features one man: fellow MI6 agent Harry Benson. Harry...

14) Red cicada: a suspense novel

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Twenty-eight-year-old Lana Baker knows the signs: the intense flashes of light and building pressure in her head herald yet another migraine. But this time, the unavoidable pain lands her in the hospital, where her unusual past raises more questions than answers. Her medical history is a complete mystery. Stranger still, her battery of tests reveals a shocking secret: Lana has a metal disk embedded in her skull--but she has no idea how it got there....

15) Double or Nothing

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Series

Pride and Pranks

Description

My best friend's older brother is back in town. Do I care? Not one bit. Logan may have been my childhood crush, but I've always been little Tessa to him. Not to mention, he's turned into a shallow flirt, and I'm not looking to get played again. What's the problem, you ask? (Besides all the flirting.) Thanks to a scheming mutual friend, Logan and I find ourselves embroiled in a bet of absurd proportions. Now, instead of ignoring Logan and keeping my...

16) Love on Camera

Author

LeCheminant, Dana

Series

The Wonder Boys

Description

Madi doesn't have time to date. Oliver has all the time in the world.

When wedding photographer Madi is challenged to find herself ten dates in three months, she turns to her older brother's three best friends to be her stand-ins. It helps her win the challenge without having to deal with the stress of dating. What could go wrong?

Oliver hasn't had much to do since selling his company, and helping Madi has given his life meaning again.

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17) Healing Hazel: a Victorian romance

Author

Moore, Jennifer

Series

(Jennifer Lunt).Blue Orchid Society

Description

"Hazel Thornton has one great ambition: to help the sick and wounded as a nurse. But that dream can never become a reality. After a devastating childhood trauma, she has spent her life battling fits of panic that make it impossible to finish her studies. Everything changes, however, when a trip to Spain takes a perilous turn that derails her plans to visit her father for Christmas and immediately plunges her into the dangers of a brutal war. With...

18) Summerhaven: a novel

Author

Odekirk, Tiffany

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"Evie Jennings doesn't believe in happily ever after--it's been a year since moving home to Los Angeles to gather the pieces of her broken heart after her divorce, but she is only going through the motions. That is, until a chance encounter on her college campus brings about an unexpected turn of events: Evie finds herself face-to-face with the heartthrob whose poster decorated the wall of her teenage bedroom. And he's desperate for her help. Hollywood...

19) The Matchmaker's Request/(Larkhall Letters Book 4)

20) The silence that binds us

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Book, eAudiobook

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In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.