The Winners of the Teens' Top Ten

Students around the country voted for their favorite top ten books out of the 25 nominated titles listed in a past entry.  The books are listed in the order they won with number 1 favorite this year - Catching Fire!  The library has all of the winners in the collection, so stop by and check them out.

The 2010 Teens’ Top Ten are:                         
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
Fire by Kristin Cashore
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Library Book Club

We had our second meeting this past week.  The club elected officers, talked up ideas for spirit week and looked over the new book selections that we will be reading this year.  We are starting off with The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. 

Scholarship Sweepstakes

Author James Patterson is giving away a number of awards to be used for the purchase of college books. Awards range from $250 - $5000. See the attached link.

http://jamespatterson.com/dollars-for-scholars-entries.php

Ashley Favorites

The following 25 titles and authors were the most checked out fiction titles for the last school year.  See if you have read any of them.  They are listed in alphabetical order by author, each title was checked out by at least 10-15 students.

Twisted - Laurie Halse Anderson
Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
Darkest Powers series - Armstrong, Kelley
House of Night series - Cast, P.C.
Love Sick - Colburn, Jake
Waiting for You - Colasanti, Susane
Hunger Games series - Collins, Suzanne
Just Listen - Dessen, Sarah
Keep it movin' - Divine, L.
Gone series - Grant, Michael
Impulse - Hopkins, Ellen
Kimani Tru series - variety of authors
Freaks - Klause, Annette Curtis
Venomous - Krovatin, Christopher
Vampire Academy series - Mead, Richelle
Twilight series - Meyer, Stephenie
Maximum Ride series - Patterson, James
Touch - Prose, Francine
The Fountainhead - Rand, Ayn
Interview with the Vampire - Rice, Anne
Vampire Kisses - Schreiber, Ellen
Perfect You - Scott, Elizabeth
Night World - Smith, L. J.
The Notebook - Sparks, Nicholas
Season of Eden - Warwick, J.M.

Teens Top 10 - Vote!!

Voting is open until September 17th.  The nominations were the result of teen book clubs across the country working with publishers and YALSA, a division of ALA.  You can now vote to help determine the winner.  Last year 11,000 students voted for Paper Towns by John Green.  There are 25 finalists, you may vote for your favorite 3.  The first link will have a listing of the nominations with a short description, and the second link is the ballot.  I hope you have read a number of these great titles, if not we will have a display in the media center of the ones we have.  The winner will be announced during Teen Read Week October 17-23, 2010.

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/teenreading/teenstopten/2010_tttnoms.pdf
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/teenstopten2010