Teens' Top Ten Voting Open

from YALSA's The Hub:Your Connection to Teen Connections blog  8/15/20

Voting is open for YALSA’s 2020 Teens’ Top Ten now through October 15. Teens aged 12-18 can vote for up to three titles from the 25 nominees. A video featuring the nominated books can be found on the Teens’ Top Ten site.

Every April, the Teens’ Top Ten nominees are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and readers vote online August 15 – October 15. To learn more about the Teens’ Top Ten and voting, please visit the Teens’ Top Ten website.

Share the nominees video on your library or school’s website and encourage teens to vote.

2018 Teens' Top Ten

The 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 fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted on the Thursday of National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year. Readers ages twelve to eighteen will vote online between August 15 and Teen Read Week™ (October 7-13, 2018) here on the Teens' Top Ten site.

1. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green. Dutton/Penguin. 9780525555360.
2. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus. Delacorte/Random House. 9781524714680. 
3. Warcross by Marie Lu. G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin. 9780399547966.
4. Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo. Random House. 9780399549731. ​​​​​​​
5. Caraval by Stephanie Garber. Flatiron. 9781250095251.
6. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds. Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster. 9781481438254. 
7. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez. Knopf/Random House. 9781524700485.
8. Paper Hearts by Ali Novak. Sourcebooks Fire. 9781492653363.
9. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. Little, Brown and Company. 9780316341684.
10. Once and For All by Sarah Dessen. Viking/Penguin. 9780425290330.

Voting for Teens' Top Ten Open

Thanks to Tasha Saecker at Waking Brain Cells blog, we have a beautiful graphic image post with all the nominees and information for YALSA's Teens' Top Ten (a teen choice list) voting which runs through Teen Read Week, Oct 7-13.

To read all about it and get your teens involved, stop by Tasha's blog.

Official 2015 Teens' Top Ten!

Check it out!  The Teens' Top Ten from YALSA have been announced and the winners are:

1.  The Shadow Throne by Jennifer A. Nielsen
2.   I Become Shadow by Joe Shine
3.  To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
4.  My Life with the Walter Boys by Ali Novak
5.  Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas
6.  The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare
7.  The Young Elites by Marie Lu
8.  The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
9.  Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
10.  The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

The video released to announce the top ten features a shout out from Bella Thorne, so share with your teens to drum up interest in the titles!