Teen's Choice Awards 2013

Welcome to Teen's Choice Awards 2013. This program is provided by Madison Public Library in Madison, Wisconsin and is geared to 7th - 12th graders. From this site you can request the books, watch video content,  make comments and vote on your favorites.

Earn volunteer hours by signing up to be an official Teen's Choice reviewer and posting comments on the books.  Teen's Choice reviewers can get an early-bird copy of either Legend, by Marie Lu, or Virals, by Kathy Reichs.  Official reviewers can also pick up a free Teen's Choice t-shirt.

Remember to vote.   Voting begins June 1 and ends August 31.  You can vote by scrolling down to the voting feature on the right sidebar, or by filling out a paper ballot at any Madison Public Library.   Below is a video montage of this year's review books.

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Volunteer reviewers, be sure to add your comments to the posts of the books you are reading.  Anyone can join the discussion whether you are a volunteer reviewer or not.

  I will be announcing the winners on Tuesday, September 3rd!!

Legend

Fifteen year-old June is a military prodigy.  Obedient, passionate and committed to her country, she is being groomed for success in the Republic's highest circles.
Ffifteen year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal.
June and Day cross paths the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect.  Caught up in a game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival while June is intent on avenging her brother's death.

Legend, by Marie Lu
eBook and downloadable Audiobook

Virals

Something strange is going on at the Loggerhead Research Institute, maybe even something deadly. And Tory Brennan, the niece of world-famous forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, is just the science geek to figure it out.  Along the way, Tory and her friends contract a virus that will change them down to their DNA, forever.
Virals, Kathy Reichs
Playaway
On CD
eBook and downloadable Audiobook

Uncommon Criminals

After successfully robbing the greatest museum in the world, Katarina Bishop isn't surprised when she is asked to steal the Cleopatra Emerals so it can be returned to its rightful owners.  Katarina's crew is up to the challenge, except for one small detail.  It seems the Emerald is cursed.
Uncommon Criminals, Ally Carter
Playaway
On CD
eBook and downloadable Audiobook

Pirates

Nancy Kington is an heiress fleeing an arranged marriage.  Minerva Sharpe is a runaway plantation slave.  Both find an unlikely refuge aboard the pirate ship, Deliverance.
Pirates!, Celia Rees

Heart of a Champion

On the summer afternoon that Seth meets Jimmy at the park, he catches baseball fever.  Over the years the two eat, sleep and breathe baseball, and it seems their friendship will last a lifetime.  But events will test both their baseball mettle, and their friendship.
Heart of a Champion, Carl Deuker
Playaway
On CD

Midnighters: The Secret Hour

For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows.  Only a small group of teenagers knows about the secret hour - only they are free to move about the midnight time.  They call themselves Midnighters.
Midnighters: The Secret Hour, Scott Westerfield

Bomb the Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Powerful Weapon

No longer the local kid with cancer, Jeffrey is now a teen in remission.  And though he still worries that the cancer will return, he has plenty of other things to worry about - his best friend is hatching a plan for their graduation, he's having girl trouble, and his older brother who always helps him with advice has taken off to join a drumming group in Africa.
Bomb, Steve Sheinkin
Playaway
On CD

Trash

Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.  Dodging the police, and tracking down the bag's owner, Raphael, Gardo and Rat struggle to stay alive.
Trash, Andy Mulligan
Playaway
On CD
eBook

The False Prince

Four boys. One treacherous plan.  An entire Kingdom to fool.  In a faraway land, civil war is brewing.  To unify the kingdom's divided people, a nobleman named Conner devises a plan to find an impersonator of the king's long-lost son, and install him on the throne.
The False Prince, Jennifer Nielsen
Playaway
On CD

Day of Tears

Told from many points-of-view, Julius Lester introduces us to Emma, a slave owned by Pierce Butler and caretaker of his two daughters, her family, Butler himself, a man who has accumulated heavy debt with his gambling habit, and Butler's family.  We meet them during the largest slave auction in American history - days of torrential rains and relentless sorrows.
Day of Tears, Julius Lester