Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year!

The 2009 Teens' Top Ten:

1. PAPER TOWNS
   by John Green
   One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
   
   
2. BREAKING DAWN
   by Stephenie Meyer
   Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for vampire Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection with werewolf Jacob Black, Bella Swan has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. She must choose to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life.
   
   
3. THE HUNGER GAMES
   by Suzanne Collins
   In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss' skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
   
   
4. THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS BOOK 2: CITY OF ASHES
   by Cassandra Clare
   Sixteen-year-old Clary continues trying to make sense of the swiftly changing events and relationships in her life as she becomes further involved with the Shadowhunters and their pursuit of demons and discovers some terrifying truths about her parents, her brother Jace, and her boyfriend Simon.
   
   
5. IDENTICAL
   by Ellen Hopkins
   Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
   
   
6. THE GRAVEYARD BOOK 
   by Neil Gaiman
   Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
   
   
7. WAKE
   by Lisa McMann
   Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.
   
   
8. UNTAMED: A HOUSE OF NIGHT NOVEL
   by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
   Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird - she's become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, of the two Zoey has left, one is undead and one is unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey's adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened.
   
   
9. THE DISREPUTABLE HISTORY OF FRANKIE LANDAU-BANKS
   by E. Lockhart
   Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.
   
   
10. GRACELING
    by Kristin Cashore
    In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.

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