M.T. Anderson

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume 1. The Pox Party

M.T. Anderson

• 2007 Horn Book-fiction winner
• 2006 NBA–Youth winner
• 2007 Printz honor
• 2006 LATimes–Young Adult finalist
• Score: 32.57

It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy’s regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians’ fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of…

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M.T. Anderson

• 2002 LATimes–Young Adult winner
• 2003 Horn Book-fiction honor
• 2002 NBA–Youth finalist
• Score: 22.52

So says Titus, a teenager whose ability to read, write, and even think for himself has been almost completely obliterated by his “feed,” a transmitter implanted directly into his brain. Feeds are a crucial part of life for Titus and his friends. After all, how else would they know where to party on the moon, how to get bargains at Weatherbee & Crotch, or how to accessorize the mysterious lesions everyone’s been getting? But then Titus meets Violet, a girl who cares about what’s happening to the world and challenges everything Titus and his friends hold dear. A…

Handel: Who Knew What He Liked

M.T. Anderson, Kevin Hawkes

• 2002 Horn Book-nonfiction honor
• Score: 6.52

“This is George Frederick Handel. He looks very satisfied with things. He’s smiling a little, as if he’s very sure of himself. You’d have to be very sure of yourself to wear a wig that gigantic”.

So begins this story which documents Handel’s life.

Whales on Stilts: M.T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

M.T. Anderson

• 2008 YRCA-Junior nominee
• Score: 4.58

What sort of madman would unleash an army of stilt-walking, laser-beaming, thoroughly angry whales upon the world? Who cares! All that matters is that his dastardly plan be foiled. Lucky for Lily Gefelty, her two best friends are the intrepid stars of their own middle-grade series novels: Jasper Dash (better know as the Boy Technonaut) and Katie Mulligan (beloved by millions as the heroine of the Horror Hollow series). It’s going to take all their smarts to stop this insane, inane plot from succeeding.