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YALSA 2020 Teens Top 10

Nominate your favorite book to make the cut for the 2020 Teens' Top 10

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Alex Awards

This award, sponsored by the Margaret A. Edwards Trust, honors ten adult books with special appeal to teens. The Alex committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.

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Edwards Award

The Margaret A. Edwards Award, sponsored by School Library Journal, honors an author and specific works by that author for significant and lasting contribution for writing to teens.

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Morris Award

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, honors the best book by a previously unpublished author writing for teens. A shortlist is announced in December each year.

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Nonfiction Award

The YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Award honors the best nonfiction written for teens each year. The Nonfiction committee also publishes its official nomination list after the awards announcement.

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Odyssey

The Odyssey Award honors the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States. The award is co-administered with the Association for Library Service to Children

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Printz Award

The Michael L. Printz Award, sponsored by Booklist, honors the best book written for teens each year.

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YA in the Winter

The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily

David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

In a story told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, Dash, Lily, Lily's brother Langston, and their friends travel to New York City to help Lily recapture the magic of the holiday season.

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Wintersmith

Terry Pratchett

Wintersmith

Terry Pratchett

When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.

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After the Snow

S.D. Crockett

After the Snow

S.D. Crockett

Fifteen-year-old Willo Blake, born after the 2059 snows that ushered in a new ice age, encounters outlaws, halfmen, and an abandoned girl as he journeys in search of his family, who mysteriously disappeared from the freezing mountain that was their home.

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Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth

Carve the Mark

Veronica Roth

Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.

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Winterdance

Gary Paulson

Winterdance

Gary Paulson

The fine madness of running the Idiatrod.

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Winter

Marissa Meyer

Winter

Marissa Meyer

Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.

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Wintersong

S. Jae-Jones

Wintersong

S. Jae-Jones

Dark, romantic, and unforgettable, Wintersong is an enchanting coming-of-age story for fans of Labyrinth and The Cruel Prince.

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The Trap

John Smelcer

The Trap

John Smelcer

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-old Johnny Least-Weasel, who is better known for brains than brawn, worries about his missing grandfather, and the grandfather, Albert Least-Weasel, struggles to survive, caught in his own steel trap in the Alaskan winter.

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Staff Recommendations

When You Look Like Us

Pamela N. Harris

When You Look Like Us

Pamela N. Harris

From debut author Pamela Harris comes a timely, gripping teen novel about a boy who must take up the search for his sister when she goes missing from a neighborhood where black girls’ disappearances are too often overlooked.

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What She Found in the Woods

Josephine Angelini

What She Found in the Woods

Josephine Angelini

While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy."

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Roman and Jewel

Dana L. Davis

Roman and Jewel

Dana L. Davis

A hip-hopera version of Romeo and Juliet is racing towards Broadway and Jerzie Jhames is cast as the understudy below R & B megastar, Cinny.

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Everything Sad is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

Everything Sad is Untrue

Daniel Nayeri

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says.

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One of the Good Ones

Maika Moulite

One of the Good Ones

Maika Moulite

Although distraught, Happi is also unsettled by the way people have idealized the memory of her sister who was killed after attending a social justice rally -- why do people have to be perfect in order to be missed?

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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull

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One of Us Is Next

Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Next

Karen M. McManus

A ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one's been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. The problem is no one has the facts.

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Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo

In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson

Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town.

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You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson

You Should See Me in a Crown

Leah Johnson

Liz Lighty has always believed she's too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. But it's okay -- Liz has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever: attend the uber-elite Pennington College, play in their world-famous orchestra, and become a doctor.

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The Hand on the Wall

Maureen Johnson

The Hand on the Wall

Maureen Johnson

Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph . . .

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Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

Grown

Tiffany D. Jackson

When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one—the police and Korey’s fans included—has more questions than she does. All she really knows is that this isn't how things are supposed to be. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom.

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Dorothy Must Die

Danielle Paige

Dorothy Must Die

Danielle Paige

Dorothy found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.

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Darius the Great Deserves...

Adib Khorram

Darius the Great Deserves Better

Adib Khorram

Darius Kellner has everything he thought he wanted--a new boyfriend, a new internship, and a spot on the soccer team--but growing up makes him question everything

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The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

The Cruel Prince

Holly Black

Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.

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Today Tonight Tomorrow

Rachel Lynn Solomon

Today Tonight Tomorrow

Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Hating Game meets Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by way of Morgan Matson in this unforgettable romantic comedy about two rival overachievers whose relationship completely transforms over the course of twenty-four hours.

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