2005 Teens' Top Ten WINNERS!
1. Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the
Sisterhood by
Ann Brashares.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants graduates from high school
and spends their last summer before college learning about life
and themselves. (YA Fic)
2. The Truth About
Forever by Sarah
Dessen.
The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work at
the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp,
but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she
makes new friends and finally faces her grief. (YA Fic)
3. Looking for Alaska by John Green.
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory
School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but
is defined by the search for answers about life and death after
a fatal car crash. (YA Fic)
4. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Written with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity, this novel is about
a teen who was conceived as a bone marrow match for her sister
Kate, and what happens when she begins to question who she really
is. (Fic)
5. Drums, Girls and
Dangerous Pie
by Jordan Sonnenblick.
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old
Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school
life, and his desire to support his family. (YA Fic)
6. Maximum Ride:
The Angel Experiment
by James Patterson.
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group,
the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation,
take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand
their own origins and purpose. (Juv Fic SF)
7. Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah.
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a
successful rap band in the London's East End where they live,
they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang
warfare. (YA Fic)
8. Teen Idol by Meg Cabot.
When teenage heartthrob Luke Stryker shows up at a small-town
Indiana high school to do research for a movie role, he persuades
junior Jenny Greenley to use her considerable talents to try to
change things at school for the better. (YA Fic)
9. The Garden by Elise Aidinoff.
Retells the tale of the Garden of Eden from Eve's point of view,
as Serpent teaches her everything from her own name to why she
should eat the forbidden fruit, and then leaves her with Adam
and the knowledge that her choice has made mankind free. (Fic)
10. How I Paid for
College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater by Marc Acito.
It's 1983, and 17-year-old Edward Zanni wants to study acting
at Juilliard, but his newly remarried father--who earns too much
for Edward to claim scholarship money--refuses to pay. So, Edward
enlists the aid of his creative theater pals to swindle the money
from his father. (Fic)
For further information on the TTT project, visit YALSA's Teens' Top Ten site.
10/26/05
Duluth Public Library, 520 W. Superior St., Duluth, MN