Y.A. Sequoyah Books

The 2009 Young Adult Sequoyah Winner is RUNAWAY by Wendelin Van Draanen.

Young Adult Sequoyah List for 2010:

Students at Waller Jr. High who have read 3 or more of these titles by April 
2010 will get to attend the voting party held during advisory where they 
will cast their votes for their favorite book.  The author who receives the 
most votes will be presented the Intermediate Sequoyah Award for 2010.  

Brande, Robin. EVOLUTION, ME, AND OTHER FREAKS OF NATURE. Knopf.

Cooney, Caroline B. DIAMONDS IN THE SHADOW. Delacorte.

Deuker, Carl. GYM CANDY. Houghton.

George, Jessica Day. DRAGON SLIPPERS. Bloomsbury.

Gorman, Carol. GAMES: A TALE OF TWO BULLIES. HarperCollins.

Hill, Kirkpatrick. DO NOT PASS GO. Margaret K. McElderry/S & S.

Kadohata, Cynthia. CRACKER! THE BEST DOG IN VIETNAM. Atheneum/S & S.

Korman, Gordon. SCHOOLED. Hyperion/DBG.

Salisbury, Graham. NIGHT OF THE HOWLING DOGS. Lamb/Random.

Schmidt, Gary D. THE WEDNESDAY WARS. Clarion.

Shusterman, Neal. UNWIND. Simon & Schuster.

Smith, Roland. PEAK. Harcourt.

Stead, Rebecca. FIRST LIGHT. Wendy Lamb Books/Random House.

Taylor, Laini. FAERIES OF DREAMDARK: BLACKBRINGER. GP Putnam’s Sons.

White, Ruth. WAY DOWN DEEP. Farrar Straus Giroux.


The books on the Young Adult Sequoyah Masterlist are not intended to be an 
automatic recommendation of the books. Students must make choices that fit 
them. It is not the intention of the committees that every student must read 
every book on the masterlist.