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Teens' Top Ten Winners
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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Cover Art: City of Ashes 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] 453 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Twisted 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]
250 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Sweet Far Thing 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]
819 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Road of the Dead 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]
339 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Abandon 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.
304 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Graceling 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]
471 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Untamed : a House of Night Novel 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]
338 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book CAST
  Cover Art: City of Ashes 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]
453 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: City of Bones 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]
485 p. 2007
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Clockwork Angel 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.
479 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Hunger Games 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]
374 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Mockingjay 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)
390 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Matched 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)
369 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Nightshade 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)
454 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Just Listen 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]
371 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: What Happened to Goodbye 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.
402 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: How to Ruin a Summer Vacation 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]
234 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Crescendo 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)
427 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Where She Went 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.
264 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Graveyard Book 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]
312 p. 2008
Children's Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Fault in Our Stars 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.
318 p. 2012
Teen Fiction Book
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