JCPL Teens

MAY 6, 2010

Pick a Book, Win a Cow

What’s more important? A state-wide award or a local competition? Both can only succeed with your help. How about both at once?!? Help your favorite librarian be the winner – and your vote will count in the state-wide contest determining the best teen book of the year!

Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award The Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award is all about Colorado teens voting for the best book of the year, and nominating the books for the next year’s list. Students in sixth through 12th grades (no adults allowed!) have until Dec. 31 to read at least three of the nominated titles and submit a ballot. The list of 2011 nominees is below, with convenient links to the catalog. I bet you’ve already read at least three of them! Then talk to your teen librarian about getting a ballot.

And when you vote, you help your teen librarian win a competition between her and the other teen librarians! Across JCPL, we’ll be counting how many completed ballots each library turns in. The librarian with the most ballots gets bragging rights and can display the prize cow from last summer. You can only vote once, but you can encourage your friends to vote too!

Here are the nominees. This list was nominated by sixth through 12th graders, which means some of these are great for 12-year-olds and some are actually adult books. If you need help figuring out which titles are appropriate for and of interest to you, please ask a librarian.

Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
Betrayed (House of Night Book Two) by P.C. Cast
City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments Book Two) by Cassandra Clare
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (Book Two) by Jeff Kinney
Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass
Gorilla City (Amazing Adventures of Charlie Small Book One) by Charlie Small
Graceling by Kristen Cashore
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson Book Five) by Rick Riordan
Max: A Maximum Ride Novel (Maximum Ride Book Five) by James Patterson
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Peak by Roland Smith
Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven Book Two) by Brandon Mull
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Summer Ball by Mike Lupica
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Syren (Septimus Heap Book Five) by Angie Sage
Truancy by Isamu Fukui
Under the Dome by Stephen King

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elyse said, on Jun. 7 at 7:36PM
I love the books Along for the Ride, Audrey, Wait!, Betrayed, City of Ashes, Graceling, The Last Olympian, and Shiver. These are all wonderful books.

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Jenna said, on Aug. 12 at 9:15AM
Elyse - you're ready to vote! Go find your teen librarian and tell her all about it. :) Shiver was my favorite book of the year last year, and Audrey Wait was the top book for the year before. Come tot hink of it, Graceling was the year before that. We have matching reading tastes! :)