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Teens' Top Ten Winners
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The top ten books from the last few years chosen by teens through a poll given by the Young Adult Library Association (YALSA) since 2003.
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Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Greg Heffley's Journal Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship. [2008 Teens' Top Ten] [Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, book 1] 2007 Children's Fiction Book |
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Anderson, Laurie Halse Twisted After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts. [2008 Teens' Top Ten] 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Bray, Libba The Sweet Far Thing At Spence Academy, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle continues preparing for her London debut while struggling to determine how best to use magic to resolve a power struggle in the enchanted world of the realms, and to protect her own world and loved ones. [2008 Teens' Top Ten] [Gemma Doyle trilogy, book 3] 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Brooks, Kevin The Road of the Dead Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister. [2007 Teens' Top Ten] 2006 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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Cashore, Kristin Graceling In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. [2009 Teens' Top Ten] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cast, P. C. Untamed : a House of Night Novel Zoey's life at vampyre training school takes a turn for the worse as she loses most of her group of friends plus all three of her potential boyfriends, and the High Priestess Neferet plans a war on humans that Zoey knows is wrong. [2009 Teens' Top Ten] [House of Night series, book 4] 2008 Teen Fiction Book CAST |
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Clare, Cassandra City of Ashes Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon. [2009 Teens' Top Ten] [Mortal Instruments series, book 2] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Clare, Cassandra City of Bones Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, 15-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. [2008 Teens' Top Ten] [Mortal Instruments series, book 1] 2007 Teen Fiction Book |
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Clare, Cassandra Clockwork Angel When 16-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother. 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. [2009 Teens' Top Ten] [Hunger Games series, book 1] 2008 Teen Fiction Book |
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Collins, Suzanne Mockingjay Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem. (2011 Teens' Top Ten) 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Condie, Allyson Braithwaite Matched All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, who to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well? (2011 Teens' Top Ten) 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Cremer, Andrea R. Nightshade Calla and Ren have been raised knowing it's their destiny to mate with one another and rule over their shapeshifting wolf pack, but when a human boy arrives and vies for Calla's heart, she's faced with a decision that could change her whole world. (2011 Teens' Top Ten) 2010 Teen Fiction Book |
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Dessen, Sarah Just Listen Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, 16-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life. [2007 Teens' Top Ten] 2006 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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Elkeles, Simone How to Ruin a Summer Vacation When sixteen-year-old Amy, a spoiled American, goes to Israel for a three-month summer vacation with a father she barely knows, she is not prepared for his Jewish family and the changes they bring about in her life. [2007 Teens' Top Ten] 2006 Teen Fiction Book |
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Fitzpatrick, Becca Crescendo Sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father's death. (2011 Teens' Top Ten) 2010 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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Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. [2009 Teens' Top Ten] 2008 Children's 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 a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. 2012 Teen Fiction Book |
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