LibGuides: William C. Morris YA Debut Award: 2018

Winner

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Call Number: YA F THO-A (Young adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780062498533
Publication Date: 2017-02-28
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does or does not say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life.
The Hate U Give [streaming audiobook] by Angie Thomas; Bahni Turpin (Read by)
Call Number: YA F THO-A Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780062677082
Publication Date: 2017-02-28

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Dear Martin [Streaming audio]] by Nic Stone
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook (OverDrive YA-Audiobook)
ISBN: 9781524782351
Publication Date: 2017
Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.

Devils Within by Henson, S. F.
Call Number: YA F HEN-SF (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781510714564
Publication Date: 2017-10-31
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces-a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, enrolled in school under a false name so The Fort can't find him, Nate struggles to navigate a world where people of different races interact without enmity.

Saints and Misfits by Ali, S. K.
Call Number: YA F ALI-SK (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781481499248
Publication Date: 2017-06-13
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.

Starfish by Bowman, Akemi Dawn
Call Number: YA F BOW-AD (Young Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781481487726
Publication Date: 2017-09-26
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.