These titles are some of the award winning and bestselling teen books published in 2012. Our Teen Advisory Board will be taking nominations for the best book of the year. Sumbit your nominations to hoskinsb@btpl.org. Please include a sentence or two telling us why you think this book should be nominated.
TEEN FICTION RIG
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children [1]by Ransom Riggs
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
TEEN FICTION GRE
The Fault in Our Stars [2] by John Green
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
TEEN FICTION CAB
Abandon [3] by Meg Cabot
A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.
TEEN FICTION LU
Legend [4] by Marie Lu
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
TEEN FICTION ROT
Divergent [5]by Veronica Roth
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
TEEN FICTION WHY
Where Things Come Back [6] by John Corey Whaley
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance. The Michael L. Printz 2012 Award Winner.
