It's time to vote!

If you've been reading the books from the Teen's Top Ten Nomination List over the past few months, then it's time to vote for your favorites! If you haven't quite finished reading the books, you have until September 18th to vote. You can vote for up to three of your favorites! Click below to vote:

Teens Top Ten Nominations - Final 8

Because the voting was moved up this year, I will not have time to finish out the list before voting starts (Voting starts today!). This post will have all of the reminaing books that I have not posted before now.


Geek Charming by Robin Palmer
Dylan's middle name is "crisis." It seems to follow her wherever she goes. First she catches her boyfriends staring at another girl. Then her beautiful designer bag takes a swim in a fountain. However, along with crisis comes opportunity, and Dylan's Beverly Hills world is about to be turned upside-down.


Metling Stones by Tamora Pierce
All life, both plant and animal, on the Battle Islands is mysteriously dying. Stone mage Evvy responds to the islander's call for help. They need her magic to solve the mystery. Accompanied by her friend and mentor, Luvo, she uncovers the deep secret revealed by the stones and the volcano. Will it be in time to rescue the children?


Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Alice was kidnapped when she was young and is forced to pretend to be a little girl to please Ray. She could never escape and wishes for death. Soon her wish will become true, as she has become too old and now she must find Ray a replacement for her.


Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Zachary, a guardian angel, has, against all rules, fallen in love with his charge. When he sees Miranda sleeping in the shadow of death, his attempt to save her hurls her into life as a vampire princess and exiles him from heaven.


Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Becasue she wants to fly and to support her soldier brother, 18 year old Ida May Jones passes for white amidst obstacles of race and gender and joins the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II.


Wherever Nina Lies by Lynn Weingarten
Two years after 16 year old Ellie's older sister, Nina, disappeared, Ellie pieces together clues to her whereabouts and heads out on a road trip that leads to murder and mystery with her hot new boyfriend, Sean.


Impossible by Nancy Werlin
This gentle story details young teen Lucy's rape and subsequent pregnancy, with an amazingly supportive cast of a faithful boyfriend and loving parents. A fairy tale set in the present, with flashes of realism and romance.


Absolutely Maybe by Lisa Yee
Maybe (short for Maybelline, her mother's favorite mascara) leaves home and heads to California on a mission to find her biological father, and avoid her mother's planned wedding number seven.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray - Book Trailer

Have you read any of Libba Bray's books? She has a great series that starts with the novel A Great and Terrible Beauty. Well, even if you haven't, you might be interested in her newest book that comes out in September!

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Teens Top Ten Nominations - Evermore by Alyson Noel

This week's book is Evermore by Alyson Noel!

From Booklist
This opening book in a new series, The Immortals, will thrill many teen fantasy-suspense readers, especially fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Seventeen-year-old Ever survived the car crash that killed her parents, younger sister, and their dog. Now she lives with an aunt in Southern California, plagued not only by survivor guilt but also by a new ability to hear the thoughts of all around her. She tries to tune out all these distractions by keeping her hoodie up and her iPod cranked loud, until Damen, the cute new boy at school, convinces her to come out of her shell. Damen, however, is frighteningly clever—and has the strange ability to produce tulips from nowhere and disappear himself at critical moments. Noël (Saving Zoë, 2007) creates a cast of recognizably diverse teens in a realistic high-school setting, along with just the right tension to make Ever’s discovery of her own immortality—should she choose it—exciting and credible. Grades 8-10. --Francisca Goldsmith --



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Teens Top Ten Nominations - The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

This week's book is The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness!

Dangerous secrets can even be hidden in a world where all men and animals hear each others' thoughts. Becasue all women died shortly after he was born, Todd Hewitt is the last boy left in his town. When he learns a dangerous secret, he runs for his life with his dog and finds something even more suprising: a girl!

From Booklist
*Starred Review* Chased by a madman preacher and possibly the rest of his townsfolk as well, young Todd Hewitt flees his settlement on a planet where war with the natives has killed all the women and infected the men with a germ that broadcasts their thoughts aloud for all to hear. This cacophanous thought-cloud is known as Noise and is rendered with startling effectiveness on the page. The first of many secrets is revealed when Todd discovers an unsettling hole in the Noise, and quickly realizes that he lives in a much different world than the one he thought he did. Some of the central conceits of the drama can be hard to swallow, but the pure inventiveness and excitement of the telling more than make up for it. Narrated in a sort of pidgin English with crack dramatic and comic timing by Todd and featuring one of the finest talking-dog characters anywhere, this troubling, unforgettable opener to the Chaos Walking trilogy is a penetrating look at the ways in which we reveal ourselves to one another, and what it takes to be a man in a society gone horribly wrong. The cliffhanger ending is as effective as a shot to the gut. Grades 8-12. --Ian Chipman




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Teens Top Ten Nominations - Bloodline by Katy Moran

This week's book is Bloodline by Katy Moran!


In the brutal world of Dark Age Britian, Essa fights for his life, his identity, and the lives of those he loves. Paolini and Tolkien fans will be drawn in.




From School Library Journal (Taken from Amazon)
Starred Review. Grade 7–10—Essa has traveled the lands of seventh-century Britain with his father, Cai, for many years without incident. In a Wolf Folk settlement, he wakes to find that his father has left without any explanation. Feeling angry and alone, he slowly comes to appreciate the people of the village, but never forgets his father's betrayal. Eventually Essa becomes sworn to a king and is sent out on a small errand. He gets himself deeper and deeper into tribal disputes and finds that the errand has become a full-blown adventure across kingdoms, with Essa taking matters into his own hands to try to influence the outcome of a potential tribal war. Well written and deeply researched, Bloodline moves along at a steady pace with enough intrigue and mystery to keep readers turning pages. It is a wonderful story of emotional and physical discovery that reads with "you are there" immediacy. The historical details are effortlessly woven throughout as the plot develops into a complete picture of the times. A map and an outline of the characters are included. This novel would make an excellent companion to a study of the Early Middle Ages and/or British and European history.—Dylan Thomarie, Johnstown High School, NY
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