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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The William C. Morris YA Debut Award, funded by the William C. Morris Endowment, honors the best book by a previously unpublished author writing for teens.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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Teen Room "Green" Book Display

Dry

Neal Shusterman

Dry

Neal Shusterman

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

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Fuzzy Mud

Louis Sachar

Fuzzy Mud

Louis Sachar

"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire world"--

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It's Getting Hot in Here

Bridget Heos

It's Getting Hot in Here

Bridget Heos

"This hard-hitting look at climate change tackles the past, present, and future of global warming, examining the effects it's having across the world, the politics behind denial, and the ways in which we can all work to lessen the harsh effects of our warming world."

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Eyes Wide Open : Going Be...

Paul Fleischman

Eyes Wide Open : Going Behind the Environmental Headlines

Paul Fleischman

We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before.

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The Paris Climate Agreement

Duchess Harris and Rebecca Rowell

The Paris Climate Agreement

Duchess Harris and Rebecca Rowell

The Paris Climate Agreement explores the issues surrounding the 2015 international agreement to combat climate change.

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Trash Talk! : Moving Towa...

Michelle Mulder

Trash Talk! : Moving Toward a Zero-Waste World

Michelle Mulder

Trash talk! : moving toward a zero-waste world

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Global Warming

Barron's Educational Series

Global Warming

Barron's Educational Series

Describes what causes global warming and what needs to be done to correct it.

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Seven billion and countin...

Michael Andregg

Seven billion and counting : the crisis in global population growth

Michael Andregg

Demographers anticipate that the human population will increase to 10 billion people sometime before the year 2050. Can we feed, clothe, house, and find jobs for this many people? At the same time, can we protect remaining habitats to ensure global diversity of life, a key to human survival?

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We are the Weather Makers...

Tim Flannery

We are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change

Tim Flannery

the history of climate change

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Spring Break Reads

Lovely War

Julie Berry

Lovely War

Julie Berry

When immortals Ares and Aphrodite are caught in a World War II-era tryst by the latter's jealous husband, she defends her actions by imparting the tale of four young humans who became connected during World War I.

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Opposite of Always

Justin A. Reynolds

Opposite of Always

Justin A. Reynolds

After falling for Kate, her unexpected death sends Jack back in time to the moment they first met. He soon learns that his actions have consequences when someone else close to him dies.

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Defy Me

Tahereh Mafi

Defy Me

Tahereh Mafi

Juliette Ferrars isn't who she thinks she is. Still reeling from the explosive events of the Continental Symposium and the secrets Warner has been keeping, Juliette has nowhere to turn and doesn't know whom she can trust.

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Descendant of the Crane

Joan He

Descendant of the Crane

Joan He

"Princess Hesina of Yan is thrust into power when her beloved father is murdered, and she's determined to find his killer--whatever the cost." --

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The Tiger at Midnight

Swati Teerdhala

The Tiger at Midnight

Swati Teerdhala

Esha lost everything in the royal coup--and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she's made the guilty pay. Now she's been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha.

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Love from A to Z

S.K. Ali

Love from A to Z

S.K. Ali

Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.

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With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo

With the Fire on High

Elizabeth Acevedo

Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

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Nocturna

Maya Motayne

Nocturna

Maya Motayne

Finn Voy is a faceshifter who got caught in a compromising position and now must steal a royal treasure or face the consequence of being stripped of her magic -- her only disguise and protection -- forever.

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Don't Date Rosa Santos

Nina Moreno

Don't Date Rosa Santos

Nina Moreno

Rosa Santos, a Cuban American, works to save her Florida town, seeks admittance to study abroad in her homeland, and wonders if love can break her family's curse. Rosa Santos is cursed by the sea-at least, that's what they say. Dating her is bad news, especially if you're a boy with a boat.

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Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Tiffany D. Jackson

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Tiffany D. Jackson

When their best friend Steph is killed, Quadir and Jarrell don't want his tracks to lie forgotten. They know his beats could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a celebration. With the help of Steph's younger sister, Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: The Architect.

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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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