For the Love of Award Winners

Monster: Walter Dean Myers: 281 pages
While on trial as an accomplice to murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

The New Policeman: Kate Thompson: 442 pages
Irish teenager J.J. Liddy discovers that time is leaking from his world into the land of the fairies, and when he attempts to stop the leak he finds out about his family history.

Speak: Laurie Halse Anderson: 197 pages
A traumatic event in the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year of high school.

The Wednesday Wars: Gary D. Schmidt: 264 pages
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Airborn: Kenneth Oppel: 355 pages
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above Earth’s surface.

The Amulet of Samarkand: Jonathan Stroud: 462 pages
Nathaniel, a magician’s apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.

Downsiders: Neal Shusterman: 246 pages
A fourteen-year-old boy who lives in the subterranean world beneath New York City meets a girl from above ground. When she visits him down below, she discovers his world is not what it appears to be.

The Hollow Kingdom: Clare Dunkle: 230 pages
In nineteenth century England, a powerful sorcerer and King of the Goblins, chooses Kate, the elder of two orphan girls recently arrived at Hallow Hill, to be his bride and queen.

The House of the Scorpion: Nancy Farmer: 380 pages
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire.

For more book suggestions, check out the Award-Winning Young Adult Books booklist in the Teen Corner.

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For the Love of Reading

The Most Popular Teen Books in the Library

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: Ann Brashares: 294 pages During summer break, longtime friends Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget each embark on adventures that they share with each other through a pair of jeans that they have decided will be worn by all and so will absorb all of their stories.

Stormbreaker: Anthony Horowitz: 192 pages
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

Twilight: Stephenie Meyer: 498 pages When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Uglies: Scott Westerfeld: 425 pages Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.

Eragon: Christopher Paolini: 509 pages In Alagaèesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.

Holes: Louis Sachar: 233 pages
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: J.K. Rowling: 435 pages
During his third year at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.

The Luxe: Anna Godbersen: 433 pages
The revelation of a dark family secret exposes a great scandal that soon sends the lives of the beautiful Holland sisters into a tailspin with lies and betrayal jeopardizing their high-ranking positions in Manhattan society.

Shadowland: Meg Cabot: 245 pages
Sixteen-year-old Suze Simon can mediate between the living and the dead, and she hopes her move to California will be a fresh start, but a hot ghost named Jesse haunts her bedroom and another ghost is bent on vengeance at school.







For more popular reading selections, check out the Provo Teens' Favorites booklist in the Teen Corner.

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