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Have you read these books? Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens across the country nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Vote online between August 23rd and September 17th for your favorite books.--YALSA
Watersmeet by Ellen Jensen Abbott Watersmeet
by Ellen Jensen Abbott

Raised in a religious fanatic colony, Abisina is persecuted for her appearance. She ran away to Watersmeet to find her father, escaping from a new leader who was ridding the colony of outcasts.

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Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wintergirls
by Laurie Halse Anderson

Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

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Hate List
by Jennifer Brown

Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

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Heist Society by Ally Carter
Heist Society
by Ally Carter

A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

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Fire by Kristin Cashore
Fire
by Kristin Cashore

In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

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City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
City of Glass
by Cassandra Clare

Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.

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The Roar by Emma Clayton
The Roar
by Emma Clayton

In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins

By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

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Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Along for the Ride
by Sarah Dessen

When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning toride a bike and dating.

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Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

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hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
hush, hush
by Becca Fitzpatrick

High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

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If I Stay by Gayle Forman
If I Stay
by Gayle Forman

While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Beautiful Creatures
by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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Geektastic edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci
Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
edited by Holly Black & Cecil Castellucci

A collection of geek-inspired stories for young adults features contributions from such authors as Lisa Yee, Sara Zarr, and M.T. Anderson.

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Dragonfly by Julia Golding
Dragonfly
by Julia Golding

When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord.

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The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks
The Reformed Vampire Support Group
by Catherine Jinks

Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

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I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President
by Josh Lieb

Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

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Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler

While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.

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Witch and Wizard by James Paterson
Witch and Wizard
by James Patterson

Whit Allgood and his sister, Whisty went to sleep as normal teenagers, and woke up as wanted criminals.

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By the Time You Read This, I'll be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
By the Time You Read This, I'll be Dead
by Julie Anne Peters

High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.

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Bloodhound by Tamora Pierce
Bloodhound
by Tamora Pierce

Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.

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Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Strange Angels
by Lili St. Crow

Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Shiver
by Maggie Stiefvater

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya by Nagaru Tanigawa The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
by Nagaru Tanigawa

Kyon, an ordinary high school freshman, and eccentric and beautiful classmate, Haruhi Suzumiya, form a school club for aliens, time travelers, and psychics.

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Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

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City of Fire by Laurence Yep
City of Fire
by Laurence Yep

Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they enlist the help of volcano goddess Pele in an attempt to stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.

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