It’s Teen Read Week!
October 16, 2007 by Kelly Phillips Erb
Filed under Parenting
It’s Teen Read Week!
First on the agenda – vote for the Teens’ Top Ten. Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year. To view the nominations for this year, you can download the list here as a pdf.
The 2007 nominees were chosen by book groups in Connecticut, Kansas, New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Utah. The nominating groups change every two years; applications for 2009-2010 will be considered by YALSA’s YA Galley Committee in June 2008.
Books which are eligible for nomination are those published in the current or past year, and cannot have been nominated previously for TTT. Click here to see the TTT Nomination Criteria.
After you’ve reviewed the nominees, teen readers who are between the ages of 12 and 18 can vote online for their favorites during Teen Read Week, October 14 – 20, 2007. Voting closes on October 21 at 12:01 a.m.
The results will be announced in November.
Last year’s winners were:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Press, 2005).
2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005).
3. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005).
4. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press, 2005).
5. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill, 2005).
6. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2005).
7. Poison by Chris Wooding (Orchard Books, 2005).
8. Captain Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart (Laura Geringer Books, 2005).
9. If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005).
10. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2005)
Check here to see the 2005 winners.
This year’s theme is LOL at your Library. There’s a lot going on, courtesy of the American Library Association. Check back during the week for more information.
