TEEN READ WEEK 2012
It Came from the Library! This Teen Read Week™ (Oct. 14-20), YALSA dares you to read for the fun of it! Teen Read Week is a time to celebrate reading for fun and encourage teens to take advantage of reading in all its forms —books and magazines, e-books, audiobooks and more — and become regular library users. During this time libraries have fun and exciting games for teens to get involved in reading. So I DARE YOU TO GET A TEEN TO READ FOR FUN..
2012 Teens’ Top Ten Winners
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.
3). Lu, Marie. Legend. Penguin Group/Putnam Juvenile. 2011.
(978-0399256752).
June, a fifteen-year-old military prodigy, is hunting Day,
the outlaw she believes is
responsible for her brother’s death. What will happen when
the two meet and discover
the government is corrupt?
4). Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
Children. Quirk Books. 2011.
(978-1594744761). When Jacob was little, his grandfather
would tell him stories of the
fantastical children’s home where he grew up and the
seemingly magical kids who lived
there with him. When his grandfather is killed, Jacob sets
out to find the home where
these children lived, unearthing a magical secret and
uncovering his true heritage.
5). Dessen, Sarah. What Happened to Goodbye. Penguin
Group/Viking Juvenile.
2011. (9780670012947). Ever since Mclean’s parents divorced,
she has lived in four
towns in two years – each time taking on a new persona.
Mclean expects to leave
Lakeview in six months, but soon finds that she doesn’t want
to – she just wants to be
herself.
6). Revis, Beth. Across the Universe. Penguin
Group/Razorbill. 2011.
(9781595143976). Cryogenically frozen centuries ago, Amy and
her parents are on their
way to a new planet aboard the spaceship, Godspeed.
Unplugged from her cryo
chamber, Amy discovers she has been awoken 50 years early,
in a failed murder
attempt. With Elder, the future leader of the ship, by her
side they are on an adventure
filled with murder, lies, dreams, and stars.
7). Meyer, Marissa. Cinder. Macmillan/Feiwel and Friends.
2012. (978-031261894). A
futuristic retelling of the classic Cinderella, Cinder, a
cyborg and talented mechanic,
lives with her cruel stepmother and two stepsisters in the
plague-ridden New Beijing.
Soon after meeting Prince Kai, Cinder must find the truths
of her past, which may help
to save the future.
8). Stiefvater, Maggie. The Scorpio Races.
Scholastic/Scholastic Press. 2011.
(9780545224901). Every November, the beaches of Thisby come
alive with the Scorpio
Races. The water horses are vicious, the terrain is
treacherous, and death is likely, but
the reward can be beyond anything you could imagine. Puck
Connolly is racing for her
family, Sean Kendrick for his passion—but only one can win
The Scorpio Races.
9). Forman, Gayle. Where She Went. Penguin Group/Dutton
Juvenile. 2011.
(9780525422945). This sequel to Gayle Forman’s If I Stay is
narrated by Adam, Mia’s
ex-boyfriend. Shortly after the devastating accident that
killed Mia’s family, the talented
cellist moves to New York, where an accidental meeting
brings them back together.
10). Cabot, Meg. Abandon. Point. 2012. (978-0545040648).
Pierce has experienced
death before 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.
Can she escape death once again?
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