It's that time of year again!  Here are all the Best Teen Books of 2011 lists you could ever want! Check out our display of some of these books at the Library!

Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Fiction

Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Nonfiction

Kirkus Review's Best Teen Books

School Library Journal's Best Fiction

School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction

School Library Journal's Best Adult Books 4 Teens

Library Journal's Best YA Lit for Adults

Amazon.com Best Teen Books

Horn Book Fanfare 2011

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Here are just a few of the books we have on order for December...
  
  
 

The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love- Dyan Sheldon
Clockwork Prince- Cassandra Clare
Playground- 50 Cent
DC Comics: The New 52
Cinder- Marissa Meyer
The Fire- James Patterson

Here are just a few highlights of books releasing in November...
  
  
  
 

• Iron Knight- Julie Kagawa
• Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick- Joe Schreiber
•  Crossed- Ally Condie
• The Future of Us- Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
• Bloodlines- Richelle Mead
• Devoted- Hilary Duff
• How to Save a Life- Sara Zarr
• Steampunk!- Kelly Link
• Dreamland- Alyson Noel

Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the American Library Association website and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between Aug. 15 and Sept. 16.  This year, 9,000 votes were received and the winners are:

1. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare 
2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
3. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick 
4. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
5. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
6. Matched by Ally Condie
7. Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel by James Patterson
8. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
9. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
10. Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

    Check out winner Cassandra Clare's acceptance speech below!

Here are just a few highlights of books releasing in October...
  
  
  
 

• Death Cure- James Dashner
• Beautiful Chaos- Kami Garcia
•  Son of Neptune- Rick Riordan
• Silence- Becca Fitzpatrick
• Twilight: The Graphic Novel Volume 2- Stephenie Meyer
• Gossip Girl: Psycho Killer- Cecily Von Ziegesar
• The Survival Kit- Donna Freitas
• Mastiff- Tamora Pierce
• Destiny- P.C. and Kristine Cast

Wednesday 9/21 at 7pm we'll be showing the movie "It's Kind of a Funny Story" staring Zack Galifianakis and Emma Roberts and based on the book by Ned Vizzini. Come check it out!
 

The Staff of the Children’s  Library,  along with all our 2011 Summer Reading Club participants would like to extend a HUMONGOUS  THANK YOU  to all the Teen Volunteers  that helped to make our Multicultural Closing Celebration held on Wednesday August  17^th such a huge success!!!
 
Your creativity, enthusiasm, and hard work truly helped in giving our Summer Reading Club participants such a wonderful afternoon!
 
Thank You! Thank you! Thank You!

Congratulations to our writing contest winners:
First Place- Julia Nelson for her short story, "Losing Kate"

Second Place- Saisuki Putumbaka for her poem, "The Voice Inside My Head"

Honorable Mention- Paulina Ebien-Pesa for her short story, "The Third Girl" and Ariaki Dandawate for her poem, "The Uncertainty behind Many Aspects"

Thank you to all who contributed!  A collection of all the entries will be available in the Teen Corner at the library.

Congratulations to all 155 summer reading participants for reading 4,727 hours this summer and submitting 247 book reviews!

Any unclaimed book prizes you have earned must be picked up
by September 9.                  
                           
Extra Special Congratulations to our Gift Card Drawing Winners:
Week #1- Belle L.
Week #2- Preeti G.
Week #3- Avni M.
Week #4- Kristin L.
Week #5- Kelsey M.
Week #6- Sabrina S.
Week #7- Madeleine G.
Week #8- Saisuki P.
Week #9- Anna B.
Week #10- Salehi P.
Grand Prize: Maeve E.