Best books of 2012

Here is a compilation of some year end "best of" lists for teen books. Check them out and see if you can add any titles to your "to read" pile!

• Barnes & Noble: Best Teen Books of 2012 
• Goodreads Choice Awards: YA Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Goodreads Choice Awards: YA Fiction
• Kirkus Book Reviews: Best Teen Books of 2012
• Publishers Weekly: Best Books of 2012: Children's Fiction
• School Library Journal: Best Books 2012 (scroll down to Fiction for teen books) 
• YALSA: Teens' Top Ten (voted on by teens across the country)

2012 Teens' Top Ten Nominations

School will be out in a couple weeks, and if you are looking for some good books to read over the summer break, check out the 2012 Teens' Top Ten Nominations. Teens ages 12-18 will be able to vote online in August and September for their favorites from this list, and the top ten books will be announced during Teen Read Week in October. A few of the titles we do not own, but you should be able to get a copy sent here from another library. Go ahead and start crossing off the titles you read so you will be ready to vote in August!

• All Good Children by Catherine Austen
• Ashes by Ilsa Bick
• Abandon by Meg Cabot
• Tempest by Julie Cross
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
• Wither by Lauren DeStefano
• Where She Went by Gayle Forman
• Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen
• Eona: The Last Dragoneye by Alison Goodman
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Page by Paige by Laura Lee Gulledge
• Legend by Marie Lu
• Hourglass by Myra McEntire
• Cinder by Marissa Meyer
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
• Across the Universe by Beth Revis
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Divergent by Veronica Roth
• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
• How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
• All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin