YALSA's Teens' Top Ten - 2012 Winners

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) announced their Teens' Top Ten winners for 2012! These titles are chosen and voted on by teens as the best of the best for the year. Take a look and make note to read and recommend. I have read quite a few and think they picked some great books. Have you read all 10?

1). Roth, Veronica. Divergent. HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books. 2011. (978-
0062024022). Abnegation (selfless), Erudite (intelligence), Candor (honesty), Amity
(peace), or Dauntless (brave): where would you fit? Beatrice lives in a society where
she must choose either to remain with her family’s faction or set off towards
independence and her beliefs. And what happens when the unity between these
factions begins to fall apart? 

2). Green, John. The Fault in Our Stars. Penguin Group/Dutton Juvenile. 2012. (978-

0525478812). Hazel and Augustus meet and forge a relationship at a support group for
kids battling cancer. As Hazel and Augustus struggle with the “side-effects of dying,”
they come to learn the strength of wishes, the complexities of long human lives, and the
wondrous ways of the universe.

YALSA's Teens' Top Ten - 2012 Nominations

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) announced their Teens' Top Ten! These titles are chosen and voted on by teens as the best of the best for the year. Take a look and make note to read these! I have read quite a few and think they picked some great stories!

All Good Children
 Catherine Austen, (2011).
Max, his sister Ally and their mother return home to Middleton to find Ally’s classmates acting strange. It is the future, and the government has created a “vaccine” to make kids easier to teach- they are less rowdy, less likely to question, and willing to obey any direction. Max’s family has a choice: to be “vaccinated”, to flee their home, or stay and fight.

Ashes
Ilsa Bick, (2011).
Alex, Tom, and Ellie join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky. The pulse kills most of the world’s population and destroys all computer devices, but it also turns some who remain into zombies or gives them superhuman senses.

Abandon
Meg Cabot, (2012).
Pierce has experienced deathbefore and barely escaped. When she moves from her old town to a town called Isla Huesos - Island of Bones - for a new start, she realizes that death wants her back. Canshe escape death once again?

YALSA's Teens' Top Ten - 2011

The Young Adult Library Services Association announced the top ten teen books of the year- voted on by teens! Actually, over 9,000 of them! These teens come from book groups from 16 different libraries all over the country. Take a look at who made the list and who the winner was.




Cheers for Cassandra Clare and Clockwork Angel! The entire list is below. Surprised about the winning choice? I would have loved to see Matched closer to the top and I'm not sure how I feel about I Am Number Four. What do you guys think?

1. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
4. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
5. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
6. Matched by Ally Condie
7. Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
8. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
9. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
10. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Fin out more information about the Teens Top Ten at YALSA
Who won in 2010? Find out HERE