Teen's Choice Awards 2010

Welcome to Teen's Choice Awards 2010. This program is provided by Madison Public Library in Madison, Wisconsin and is geared to 7th - 9th graders. From this site you can request the books, watch video content, listen to reviews, make comments and vote on your favorites. Below is a video montage of this year's review books.

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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. 

Winning titles will be announced at the Awards Ceremony so be on time to cast final votes and enjoy the celebratory cake.

At the Sequoya Library, 4340 Tokay Blvd.,
Thursday, August 26, 7 p.m.

After Tupac and D Foster

She was known only as D and wouldn't tell what the D stood for. She wouldn't tell much about her life at all, really. But she understood Tupac's songs about parents who failed you and how you loved them anyway.
After Tupac and D Foster, by Jacqueline Woodson

Chains

Slaves, Isabel and her younger sister, Ruth, have been sold to a wealthy family in Manhattan. But the year is 1776, revolution is in the air, and rebels to the cause promise Isabel freedom in exchange for information. That is how Isabel becomes a spy.
Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Cirque Du Freak

When Darren and his best friend sneak into an illegal freak show expecting to be grossed out, maybe a little frightened, neither one realizes how their lives will be unalterably changed.
Cirque Du Freak, by Darren Shan

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

To eighth-grader Steven Alper his five year-old brother Jeffrey is a pain. Then Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia and Steven's life is turned upside down.
Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

Houdini was a magician, an escape artist, and an amazing showman. His name is still famous more than 80 years after his death.
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, by Sid Fleischman

The Hunger Games

In a future world, 16 year-old Katniss takes her younger sister Prim's place in the annual Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death. All she hopes to do is survive as long as possible - revolution doesn't even cross her mind.
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins

Collins reveals some of her sources for the ideas that prompted her to write this amazing trilogy in this interview.  You'll need to scroll down a bit to get to the interview.

Keeping Corner

12 year-old Leela looks forward to her upcoming anu ceremony, when she will move to her husband's home. His death changes Leela's fortunes and she is forced to follow her caste's traditions of widowhood. Leela lives in fear of the saying that a widow's life "is like a living death."
Keeping Corner, by Kashmira Sheth

The Naming

Maerad, orphaned and living alone as a slave in Gilman's Cot, has few hopes for her future until Cadvan, a Bard and Mage, stumbles upon her in the cow byre and offers to help her escape.
The Naming, by Alison Croggon

Rash

In the United Safer States of America Bo is arrested for arriving at school with a perceived rash. Once in prison his time is spent making pizzas for a fast food company. Then he is recruited to the prison football team, a sport that is anything but safe.
Rash, by Pete Hautman

Treasure Island

Young Jim Hawkings and his mother, while running the Admiral Benbow Inn, encounter a pirate who fears for his life. In spite of hiding out at the Inn, the pirate is discovered and murdered by his enemies. Jim and his mother find papers which lead to treasure and to danger.
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson