Teens' Top Ten - Do Your Teens Agree?
Dodie Ownes -- School Library Journal, 11/04/2009
The 2009 Teens’ Top Ten book picks were announced on October 16, and John Green’s Paper Towns (Dutton) hit the number one spot.- Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
- City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
- Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
- Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
- Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin's Griffin)
- The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
- Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
You can also see World Wrestling Entertainment’s Bella Twins run through the list in an entertaining video, or visit the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) Teens’ Top Ten page for a downloadable bookmark with the list.
Diane Tuccillo, a teen services librarian at Poudre River Public Library District (CO), says that the teens in her Interesting Readers Society agree with the results of YALSA’s nationwide poll. “I think it is really interesting how that pans out,” says Tuccillo. “I do believe that the final ‘top 10’ each year so far reflects basically what teens want in their library collections and what they are reading. Due to demand, all 10 titles selected are owned in multiples in our library, and they are regularly checked out and/or on hold.”
Do your teens agree with YALSA’s top 10 teen picks? Anything missing, or something they think should not have made the list? Drop SLJTeen a note and let us know what your teens think!
