2010 Teens' Top Ten Nominations

Readers between the ages of 12 and 18 vote for their favorite titles online between Aug. 23 and Sept. 17. The winners will be announced in a webcast during Teen Read Week and will be posted on the Siouxland Libraries' website. More information can be found at the YALSA website.

Abbott, Ellen Jensen. Watersmeet.
Fourteen-year-old Abisina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Wintergirls.
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.

Brown, Jennifer. Hate List.
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

Carter, Ally. Heist Society.
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.

Cashore, Kristin. Fire.
In a kingdom called the Dells, Fire is the last human-shaped monster, with unimaginable beauty and the ability to control the minds of those around her, but even with these gifts she cannot escape the strife that overcomes her world.

Clare, Cassandra. City of Glass.
Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.

Clayton, Emma. The Roar.
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.

Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire.
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

Dessen, Sarah. Along for the Ride.
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.

Fisher, Catherine. Incarceron.
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush.
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.

Forman, Gayle. If I Stay.
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weights whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.

Garcia, Kami and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures.
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd. Edited by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci.
A collection of short stories about geeks.

Golding, Julia. Dragonfly.
When Tashi, the rigidly formal sixteen-year-old Fourth Crown Princess of the Blue Crescent Islands, reluctantly weds roguish eighteen-year-old Prince Ramil of Gerfal, their religious, cultural, and personal differences threaten to end their political alliance and put both countries at the mercy of a fearsome warlord.

Jinks, Catherine. The Reformed Vampire Support Group.
Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

Lieb, Josh. I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President.
In Omaha, Nebraska, twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has everyone convinced that he is extremely stupid and lazy, but he is actually a very wealthy, evil genius, and when he decides to run for seventh-grade class president, nothing will stand in his way.

Ockler, Sarah. Twenty Boy Summer.
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.

Patterson, James. Witch and Wizard.
Life turns upside down for 15-year-old Wisty and her older brother Whit when they are torn from their parents one night and sent to prison for no reason they can comprehend.

Peters, Julie Anne. By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead.
High school student Daelyn Rice, who's been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.

Pierce, Tamora. Bloodhound.
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, who is now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, heads to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.

St. Crow, Lili. Strange Angels.
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself and her companions to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

Stiefvater, Maggie. Shiver.
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

Tanigawa, Nagaru. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
Haruhi forms a new club at her high school – the S.O.S. Brigade, which is dedicated to finding aliens and other extraordinary individuals.

Westerfeld, Scott. Leviathan.
Fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who is disguised as a boy and is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.

Yep, Laurence. City of Fire.
Twelve-year-old Scirye and her companions travel to Houlani, a new Hawaiian island created by magic, where they ask the goddess Pele to help them stop an evil dragon and a mysterious man from altering the universe.