Gateway Books 2022-2023

The purpose of this book is to learn more about the 2022-2023 Gateway Nominees. These nominees span a variety of genres and interest levels. For each title, we have print copies available in the library and eBooks and audiobooks available on Sora.

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Realistic Fiction

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In her final year in foster care, seventeen-year-old Muir tries to survive her senior year before aging out of the system.

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Realistic Fiction
Suspense

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In chapters alternating between "then" and "now", seventeen-year-old Jane Anonymous chronicles the events leading up to her abduction and seven-month captivity and her painful return to family and friends.

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Historical Fiction

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In 1935, young Alex Maki of Bainbridge Island, Washington, is horrified to discover that his new pen pal, Charlie Levy of Paris, France, is a girl, but in spite of his reluctance, their letters continue over the the years and they fight for their friendship even as Charlie endures the Nazi occupation and Alex leaves his family in an internment camp and joins the Army.

Genres

Mystery
Adventure

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Sixteen-year-old Katelyn, who has been subjected to her mother's 'wanderlust' all her life, discovers that Mom might not be who she says she is, and that someone is hunting them both.

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Mystery
Adventure

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When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and and eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.

Genres

Novel in Verse
Realistic Fiction

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Sixteen-year-old Camino Rios, of the Dominican Republic, and Yahaira Rios, of New York City, are devastated to learn of their father's death in a plane crash and stunned to learn of each other's existence. A novel in verse told in two voices.

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Novel in Verse
Realistic Fiction

Learn about the story behind Punching the Air.

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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the the Exonerated Five comes a powerful novel in verse about a boy who is wrongly incarcerated.