Teen Read Week 2009

The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) has announced the Teens Top Ten Books of the Year. More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book during the online poll that took place from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18th. The winners were announced during Teen Read Week (Oct. 18-24th), and here they are:

1. Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
7. Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
8. Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Plan ahead! Next year's Teen Read Week: October 17-23, 2010. You can vote for the theme now! We have started reading these great books in our house, so let me know where you start!

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