2009 TEENS' TOP TEN
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1. Paper Towns by John Green 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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2. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer Discover the fate of Bella and Edward in the fourth book in the vampire saga. |
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3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
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4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Claire Clary continues trying to make sense of her swiftly changing life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents and others close to her. |
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5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins 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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6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. |
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7. Wake by Lisa McMann Eighteen-year-old Janie uses her ability to tap into other people's dreams to investigate an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students. |
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8. Untamed by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast Zoey Redbird, a vampire, has lost her friends and become an outcast while she attends House of Night, a vampire finishing school, but she realizes the only way she can repair the damage caused by her death is to be friends again with humans. |
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9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks. |
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10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. |



