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Teens' Top Ten Nominees 2012
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During the Young Adult Library Association's Teen Read Week in October, vote for your favorites. Find out what the top ten teen books in the country really are for Teens' Top Ten!
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Austen, Catherine All Good Children It's the middle of the 21st century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. When misfit Max's sister, Ally, is targeted, Max and his best friend must pretend to be "zombies" until his family escapes into the unknown world beyond New Middletown's borders. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Bick, Ilsa J. Ashes Alex, a resourceful 17-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cabot, Meg Abandon A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned 17-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cross, Julie Tempest After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, 19-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities to travel 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 are determined to recruit him for their own purposes. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Dessen, Sarah What Happened to Goodbye Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, 17-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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DeStefano, Lauren Wither Genetic engineering has turned every newborn into a ticking time bomb: males die at age 25, and females die at 20. When 16-year-old Rhine is kidnapped for childbearing purposes, she is given everything she ever wanted - except freedom. With the help of Gabriel, a servant, Rhine attempts to escape before her time runs out. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Forman, Gayle. Where She Went 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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Gaughen, A. C. Scarlet Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, using his unerring eye for finding treasures to steal. 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. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Goodman, Alison. Eona : the Last Dragoneye 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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Green, John The Fault in Our Stars 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. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Gulledge, Laura Lee Page By Paige 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. 2011 Teen Graphic Novel |
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Lu, Marie Legend In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, 15-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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McEntire, Myra Hourglass 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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Meyer, Marissa Cinder As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, 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. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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Myracle, Lauren Shine When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, 16-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town, and in the process comes to terms with her own dark secret. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Ness, Patrick A Monster Calls 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, but rather an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Oppel, Kenneth This Dark Endeavor 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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Revis, Beth Across the Universe Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Riggs, Ransom Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children A horrific family tragedy sets 16-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As hw explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar--they may have been dangerous, and quarantined on the island for good reason. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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Roth, Veronica Divergent In a future Chicago, 16-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. 2011 Teen Fiction Book |
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