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Teen's Top Ten

Every year in October the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) celebrates Teen Read Week-a week devoted to great books and teens!  Part of the Teen Read Week celebration is the announcement of the Teen's Top Ten.  Voting starts in August and we'll have to link to vote, but here's the nominee list to get started on your reading! 

Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

Heist Society by Ally Carter

Fire by Kristin Cashore

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

The Roar by Emma Clayton

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

 If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd Edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci

Dragonfly by Julia Golding

The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

I Am A Genius Unspeakable and I Want to Be Your Class President by Joh Lieb

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Wtich and Wizard by James Patterson

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce

Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Shiver by Maggie Stiefavter

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

City of Fire by Laurence Yep

Have you read any of the nominees? I'm rooting for Shiver and Catching Fire!  What are your favorites? 

 

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