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This baby holding a trophy isn't so sure about awards, but they can be exciting! |
Thanks to my great colleague Pam Gardow for drawing my attention, which was distracted, to the Teens' Top Ten list (voted on by teens), which was announced this week! Here's the list. Do you have all the titles? How are you promoting them? Displays, booktalks, booklists? Check out the YALSA site for trailers for each title.
- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (Macmillan/St.
Martin's Griffin)
- Splintered by A.G. Howard (ABRAMS/Amulet
Books)
- The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Tor Teen)
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (Penguin/Putnam
Juvenile)
- Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
(Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends)
- Earth Girl by Janet Edwards (Prometheus
Books /Pyr)
- The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt)
- Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Random
House/Delacorte Press)
- Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (Macmillan/Henry
Holt Books for Young Readers)
- The Eye of Minds by James Dashner (Random
House/Delacorte Press)
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Steve Sheinkin,
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights(Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)
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Deborah Wiles,
Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
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Wow! Books on this list will surely inspire fascinating discussions about Important Issues! I am currently reading Revolution and it is an awe-inspiring mix of fiction and nonfiction. The other titles have been on my to-read list for a while. How about you? Do you use these lists for promoting interest?
Labels: book awards, teens top ten, YALSA