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The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) asked teens for their favorite books of the past year.

Over 9,000 teens voted and chose the books listed below as their top ten :

 

 

 

 

2012 ALEX Winners

Big Girl SmallIn ZanesvilleThe Lover's DictionaryThe New KidsThe Night Circus

Ready Player OneRobopocalypseSalvage the BonesThe Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

  • Big Girl Small, by Rachel DeWoskin, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (ISBN 9780374112578 )
  • In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard, published by Little, Brown & Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. (ISBN: 9780316084475)
  • The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (ISBN: 9780374193683)
  • The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens, by Brooke Hauser, published by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (ISBN: 9781439163283)
  • The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. (ISBN: 9780385534635)
  • Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. (ISBN: 9780307887436)
  • Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson, published by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. (ISBN: 978038553850)
  • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, published by Bloomsbury USA (ISBN: 9781608195220)
  • The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures, by Caroline Preston, published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (ISBN: 9780061966903)
  • The Talk-Funny Girl, by Roland Merullo, published by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. (ISBN: 9780307452924)

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