2009-2010 Top Teen Reads.

 

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Green, John, 1977-. Paper towns. 1st ed. New York : Dutton Books, c2008.
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.

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Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-. Breaking dawn. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
Continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.

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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. 1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.

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Clare, Cassandra. City of ashes. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008.
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.

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Hopkins, Ellen. Identical. 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2008.
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.

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Gaiman, Neil. The graveyard book. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.
The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.

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McMann, Lisa. Wake. New York : Simon Pulse, c2008.
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.

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Cast, P. C. Untamed : a house of night novel. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, c2008.
Zoey Redbird's life at the House of Night prep school for fledgling vampyres gets a lot tougher when she loses all three of her boyfriends and her group of friends turns against her, which makes it all the more difficult to get anyone to listen when she discovers Neferet has declared war on humans.

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Lockhart, E. The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel. New York : Disney/Hyperion, c2008.
Frankie Landau-Banks attempts to take over a secret, all-male society at her exclusive prep school, and her antics with the group soon draw some unlikely attention and have unexpected consequences that could change her life forever.

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Cashore, Kristin. Graceling. 1st ed. Orlando, FL : Harcourt, c2008.
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 of killing and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.