Have you guys and girls heard of the Teens' Top Ten? The Teens' Top Ten is like the teen's choice awards, for books! Teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the
country make lists of the books they really liked from last year and those nominations are posted online. Then, you guys read them and starting TODAY you can vote for your favorite online! Anyone ages 12 to 18 can vote adn the winners will be announced in October.
Let's meet the books, shall we? Here are the nominees for best teen books this year:
All Good Children by Catherine Austen
In the not-too-distant future, Max tries to maintain his identity in a
world where the only way to survive is to conform and obey.
(I just got this one, it will be on the shelf soon!)
Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick
Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain
tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry
eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps
through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some
of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman
senses.
(YA SFF BIC - I read this one and really liked it)
Abandon by Meg Cabot
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from
Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life
upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there,
helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
(YA PAR CAB - haven't read this one, but Meg Cabot generally writes good stuff!)
Tempest by Julie Cross
After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle,
nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels
back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over
again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies
of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes.
(YA SFF CRO - haven't read this one, like time travel thou - its on my to-read list!)
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from
town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school
she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where
she belongs.
(YA FIC DES)
Wither by Lauren DeStefano
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men
dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are
kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
(YA SFF DES - LOVED this one! Read it!)
Where She Went by Gayle Forman
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in
New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart
when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
(YA FIC FOR)
Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen
Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, with an unerring eye for finding
treasures to steal and throwing daggers with deadly accuracy, but when
Gisbourne, a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the sheriff to capture
Robin and his band of thieves, Robin must become Will's protector
risking his own life in the process.
(YA HIS GAU)
Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
Facing the ultimate battle for control of the land she calls home, Eona
finds herself waging an internal battle every bit as devastating as the
war threatening to break out across the kingdom.
(Don't have this one YET - we do have the books that come before it. Until we get it, you can always request it from another library)
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted
her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer
support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and
life.
(YA FIC GREE - haven't read this one but everyone else just RAVES about it)
Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge
When Paige Turner and her family move to New York City from rural
Virginia, she tries to make sense of her new life through her
sketchbook, and it helps bring her true personality into the open, a
process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding.
(YA GN GUL - the only graphic novel on the list)
Legend by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations,
fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the
brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common
enemy.
(YA SFF LU and YA BCD LU - I LOVEEEE Dystopia!)
Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Seventeen-year-old Emerson uses her power to manipulate time to help
Michael, a consultant hired by her brother, to prevent a murder that
happened six months ago while simultaneously navigating their undeniable
attraction to one another.
(YA PAR MCE)
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar
people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with
handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to
protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
(YA SFF MEY and YA BCD MEY - This is without a doubt my favorite on this list - CYBORG CINDERELLA? NOTHING could be better!!)
Shine by Lauren Myracle
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime,
sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small
North Carolina town.
(YA MYS MYR)
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his
bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began
when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to
face truth and loss.
(YA SFF NES)
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the
independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century,
sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and
uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an
ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
(YA SFF OPP)
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship
Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder
her.
(YA SFF REV)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of
very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss
Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children , an unforgettable novel that
mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience.
(YA SFF RIG)
Divergent by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among
five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her
life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an
anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she
lives in is not perfect after all.
(YA SFF ROT - another great dystopian!)
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from
their home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is
sentenced to death while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her
family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on
Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical
note.
(YA HIS SEP)
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck
Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both
trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make
it to the finish line.
(YA SFF STI and YA BCD STI)
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over
the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together
when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child but nothing
turns out as they had anticipated.
(YA FIC ZAR)
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
In a future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage
cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed,
sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into
the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime
family.
