Read the nominees for favorite teen book of 2014 and then vote starting August 15. These are favorite books nominated by teens--and then voted for by teens. Check out the titles here and request ones you want-just click on a title to link to the library catalog. Browse the display of books at the Cedar Lake Branch, too. Find out more at the
Teen Top Ten website, www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten.
Read now--and until Aug. 2, read for prizes!!
One entry for every 100 pages. Then check back here on Aug. 15 for the
link to vote for your favorite!
Dusty Everhart a Nightmare, (literally!), has been trying to
escape the shadow of her mother’s reputation, and one night, while dream-feeding,
she sees the crime scene of a murder victim who attends her high school, a
school for supernatural children. When she arrives back on campus, she finds,
to her horror, that the dream had come true. Now she must use dreams to find
the killer and save victims-to-be in order to stop an ancient darkness from
returning.
After Emma’s mother,
the long lost Poseidon princess returns to the sea, the Syrena begin to bring
her identity into question. When all hope seems lost, and appears the Royals
have a revolution on their hands, Emma has the opportunity to use her Gift to
save those that she loves. But at what cost will her choices bring to not only
her, but also to those she considers her family.
Alina, a sun summoner on the run from the evil Darkling, is
searching for a way to increase her power and save the ones she loves. But as
her power grows she falls deeper in the Darkling’s grasp and farther away from
her best friend and love, Mal. When the time comes Alina must choose between
her love, her power, or her lust for the Darkling and all of his power.
Penelope believes she is the last person alive in the city
of Los Angeles
after a massive earthquake destroyed the majority of the earth. After
encountering a group of survivors, however, she begins to have hope in whatever
may be left of the world, whether it be love, trust, and, just maybe, her
family. Modeled after Homer’s Odyssey, Pen goes on a post-apocalyptic journey
filled with Giants and butterflies in an attempt to find her way home.
Cia is chosen to participate in The Testing, a government
program that will select the brightest graduates who show potential for
becoming future leaders in this post-apocalyptic world. Cia’s excitement of
being chosen soon dies when her father warns her of the experiences he faced
when he was chosen. Cia must trust no one if she hopes to come back alive.
However, will she be able to face the dark, unholy truth about the testing? One
kept whether you leave… Or don’t?
Michael is an average kid who plays video games, but this
video game, the Virtnet, is different than others. You can die in it physically
and mentally, and that happens to a girl named Tanya who rips out her core and
commits suicide. Suddenly, Michael is whisked away by the designers of the
VirtNet and is given a mission by them to find a cyber terrorist, named Kaine,
who is suspected of killing gamers.
Edwards, Janet . Earth Girl.
In 2788 humanity has developed technology that allows them
to portal between many habitable worlds except for those are deemed “the
handicapped”, those who are born with a one in a thousand chance of
having an immune system that cannot tolerate other planets. Jarra, a
handicapped 18-year old student with a passion for history, creates a false
identity for herself and enrolls in a college course for students from other
planets in an attempt to get revenge for the way the handicapped are looked
down upon.
The niece of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first consulting
detective, and the half-sister of Bram, the vampire slayer, are thrown together
to find out why high society girls are being murdered and what a mechanical
scarab beetle has to do with it.
Gray, Laurie. Maybe I Will
One life-altering, life-changing event which dramatically
effected Sandy,
and not in the good sort of life-changing events like winning the lottery or
having a kid, will leave you thinking. Finding true friends and activities that
allow Sandy to really be free and let off steam
is all that keeps Sandy sane and is an important
factor in putting Sandy’s
life back together once again.
Cady wakes up in a up in a dark, torn apart cottage hearing
someone tell another man to “finish her off.” To make things worse, not only
does she not know why she’s in the cabin or why the men are trying to kill her,
she also doesn’t remember who she is. Eventually, she escapes and meets up with
Ty, a boy who is willing to help her even at the risk of losing his own life.
Together they attempt to figure out what happened to make her lose her memory.
Alyssa, a girl already struggling with life in general, is
pulled into something dark and mysterious. She follows in the footsteps of her
ancestor, Alice, and goes down the rabbit hole to right the wrongs that Alice caused to cure her
family of their “curse”. Instead of finding Lewis Carroll’s Beautiful
wonderland she finds a dark and twisted version with monstrous creatures that
aren’t as nice as the ones in the novel or as pretty.
Eureka
has only ever cried once in her life and the one time she did, her mother told
her to never cry again. Ever since then, she has never shed a tear; not even
when her mother was killed in a tragic freak accident. Unbeknownst to Eureka, she was also supposed to die, but Ander couldn’t
bring himself to let her die despite the threats that Eureka possesses because of her tears.
Rafe has been out of the closet for years. After
transferring to an all-boys boarding school, however, he decides to keep his
sexual orientation to himself. But when he meets Ben, a teammate on his
soccer team, he wonders if their friendship-turned-more is worth outing himself
for.
When disaster strikes in the city of Monument, 14 kids are huddled in a Greenway
store for shelter and survival. They decide their only chance of living through
this nationwide disaster is to make their way to Denver International
Airport where the
military is evacuating people to safety. Will they make it alive or will they
meet their doom like others have?
Chloe Spinnaker is an average student just barely making the
grade. But one day spring day, after falling asleep in study hall, she wakes up
to snow and an empty classroom. Six months of her life has passed and she has
no clue what happened except that now she is popular and has lots of friends
that is, except Maggie, the one true friend she had before everything changed.
Bewildered by the sudden time lapse in her life, Chloe decides to embark on a
mission where she stops at nothing to figure out what happened to her and to
get her memories back.
The year is 1986 when Eleanor arrives in town to live with
her family and abusive step-father. It’s been a year since the last time she
lived with them, and she doesn’t expect life to be any better. Park’s life, on
the other hand, is going steady. He’s got a spot in the popular crowd and he’s
about to get his driver’s license. But when the two meet on the bus, things
change drastically. Even though they both know high school romances never last,
they’re going to try everything they’ve got to make it work. But in end, will
everything they have be enough?
Elise Dembowski is a high school loser. After reaching the
tip of the iceberg and facing suicidal thoughts just months before, Elise is
searching desperately for a way out of her nearly friendless life. When she
accidentally finds a dance club called Start, Elise’s life finally takes off as
she meets new people, makes new memories, finds a new passion, and discovers
herself.
Sanderson, Brandon. Steelheart.
Ten years ago, Calamity came; a light in the sky that appeared one day and many
believe that somehow it was connected to the rise of the Epics. These beings,
once human, now have all kinds of amazing and dangerous powers that have
enabled them to take over the world, and one could argue the most dangerous one
is Steelheart. Able to bend the elements to his will and turn any non-living
substance to steel, many say he’s invincible because they’ve never seen him
bleed — except for David, who will stop at nothing to get his vengeance and see
Steelheart bleed again.
Joel wants to be a Rithmatist more than anything.
Rithmatists have the power to bring two dimensional beings called Chalklings to
life and defend against the wild chalkings that threaten to overcome the
Rithmatists. Joel is student at Armedius
Academy, a prestigious
school where Rithmatists and wealthy children go to learn. When a string of
kidnappings begin to occur Joel must gain assistance from the Rithmatists at Armedius Academy in order to bring order back to
the academy.
Ellie is the girl from Middle-of-Nowhere, Maine,
and Graham Larkin is the hot superstar sensation from Middle-of-Everything, California. While Ellie
hides from the media, Graham is constantly being watched by the paparazzi.
However, an email mistake from Graham to Ellie starts an online relationship
between these two teens, marking the start of a friendship and something more.
Can Ellie accept Graham despite all the publicity? Or will the media be the
demise of this couple’s happiness?
Ryan Dean West is a fourteen year old junior trying to make
everyone else blind to the one thing that makes him different than everyone
else, his young age. This is not easy though, as he must prove himself to
everyone – the girl of his dreams, his scary roommate, his friends, and the
rugby team. As Ryan Dean tries to survive his junior year, he encounters
horrifying injuries, moments of ecstasy, and shattering heartbreak.
Claire, a girl with a dream to become an actress, finally
gets her chance when her parents decide to remake Mayhem Manor, a movie that
was never finished because of 3 real deaths. As the camera starts rolling on
the remake, strange things begin to happen. Like the little hairy man Claire
meets by the makeup trailer one day. Who or what could be the cause of these
actors’ deaths?
Violet, a sassy, independent, and sharp-tongued young lady,
rents out the side cottage on her parent’s estate in the hopes of making a
little extra money to pay the bills. Her easygoing customer is as dangerous as
he is mysterious, and murders and madness soon sweep her little home town. She
takes it upon herself to understand him and the events, but only finds a
darkness she can only hope to escape with her sanity and safety.
It’s the fall of 1918: The Spanish Influenza and the horrors
of World War I grip the world with terror, and spiritualist photography, as the
face of death seems to greet every household in America, has become increasingly
popular. After her father is arrested as a suspected traitor, Mary
Shelley Black travels to San Diego,
hoping to escape the flu while living with her Aunt Eva. Only a few days
after arriving, Mary Shelley is told that Stephen, her sweetheart who recently
became a soldier, has been killed in France. But Stephen’s spirit
hasn’t left yet, and he desperately needs Mary Shelley’s help.
Yancey, Rick. The 5th Wave.
Present day – the aliens have invaded the planet, or as Cassie likes to call
them, the Others.Almost everyone has been killed off by the 4th Wave, and now,
Cassie one of the few survivors living now during the 5th wave, roams the country
while trying to stay alive to find her brother – that is, if he’s still alive.
When she’s taken in by a boy named Evan, she realizes that he’s different. He’s
not like her, but he’s all she’s got. Cassie has to overcome her doubts and
trust issues if she wishes to survive the 5th wave.
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