Arkansas Teen Book Award 2012

1. Arkansas Teen Book Award2012

2. The Steering Committee: Who We Are • Jana Dixon, AASL/AAIM Representative • Cutter Morningstar High School Library Media Specialist • David Eckert, Assistant Director • Jonesboro Public Library • Rachel Shankles, AAIM Representative • Lakeside High School Library Media Specialist • Amy Miller, Youth Collection Development Librarian • Central Arkansas Library System • Whitney Ivy, Southwest Literacy Council President • Blevins School Library Media Specialist/English Teacher • Linda Green, Youth Services Programming Coordinator • Conway County Library • Zoe Butler, Coordinator • Arkansas Center for the Book

3. How the Process Works • January to April: • Solicit readers (adults who work with teens in some capacity and are willing to read and vote for titles that will be included in the voting list for teens). • Solicit titles of books published the previous year to include in the lists to be read. • The goal is to have 20 titles in each level for the teens to vote on. • If you want to be a reader, suggest a title, or ask us a question send an email to: arteenbookaward@gmail.com

4. How the Process Works • April through July • Divide books into appropriate level and genre. Level 1 is 7th – 9th Grades • Level 2 is 10th – 12th Grades. • Decide how many books each level will be able to vote through to the final list. • Divide readers up among the various levels and genres. • Read, Read, Read! • Each group will have a monitor and a group page on the Readers’ Wiki. • Voting occurs near the end of July and Wild Cards are chosen.

5. Wild Cards Or Titles Too Good To Pass On! • August through Late September/October • Each group of readers can nominate one to two titles which didn’t make their final vote, but they feel merit a possible place on the final list. • Books given the highest review rating in Horn Book Guide’s spring issue will also be added to the Wild Card list. • Volunteers from the reading groups will read these titles and meet to vote on 5 to 6 more titles per level for the final voting list. • The Wild Card meeting will be held the Saturday afternoon before the ArLA conference begins.

6. Announce Reading List • Titles for the final voting list will be announced each year at the Arkansas Library Association Conference in September/October. • Promotional materials will be available at http://arkansasteenaward.wikispaces.com

7. Teens’ Turn with Lists • Teens are given the new voting lists to read from each October. • The teens have one year in which to read from the list. • Each October during Teen Read Week teens can vote for their favorite title from whichever level they’ve read. They vote at this website: http://arkansasteenaward.wikispaces.com/Voting+Form • The winners for each level will be announced after votes are tabulated at the end of October.

8. After Ever After By Jordan Sonnenblick ISBN 9780439837064 Fiction Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.

9. Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean By Sarah Stewart Taylor and Ben Towle ISBN 9781423113379 Graphic Novel A biographical depiction, in graphic novel format, of the life of aviator Amelia Earhart, focusing on her crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.

10. The Amulet of Samarkand By Jonathan Stroud and Andrew Donkin ISBN 9781423111467 Fantasy A graphic novel adaptation of the book in which Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinniBartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.

11. Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour By Morgan Matson ISBN 9781416990659 Fiction After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

12. Birth Marked By Caragh M. O’Brien ISBN 9781596435698 Dystopian/Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, a midwife who dutifully delivers at least three babies a month and hands them over to the Enclave, a community within walls where the children are adopted and live with conveniences which are not available to the outside world, begins to question her loyalty to the group after her mother is brutally taken away from her by the people she serves.

13. The Boneshaker By Kate Milford ISBN 9780547241876 Fantasy/Action When Jake Limberleg brings his traveling medicine show to a small Missouri town in 1913, thirteen-year-old Natalie senses that something is wrong and, after investigating, learns that her love of automata and other machines make her the only one who can set things right.

14. Crossing the Tracks By Barbara Stuber ISBN 9781416997030 Fiction In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as a companion to a country doctor's invalid mother.

15. Dark Life By Kat Falls ISNB 9780545178143 Fantasy When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they learn that the government may pose an even greater threat.

16. Dead Beautiful By Yvonne Woon ISBN 9781423119562 Fantasy/Romance After her parents die under mysterious circumstances, sixteen-year-old Renee Winters is sent from California to an old-fashioned boarding school in Maine, where she meets a fellow student to whom she seems strangely connected.

17. The Fat Boy Chronicles By Lang Buchanan ISBN 9781585365432 Fiction Jimmy Winterpock, 187 pounds at the age of fourteen, finds the constant taunts over his weight difficult to bear, but his life changes when his friend Paul enlists him in helping solve a local murder case.

18. The Gardener By S.A. Bodeen ISBN 9780312370169 Horror/SciFi When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.

19. The Grimm Legacy By Polly Shulman ISBN 9780399250965 Fantasy New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository," and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.

20. Hex Hall By Rachel Hawkins ISBN 9781423121305 Fantasy Witch Sophie Mercer, having been sent to a reform school by her father after a prom night spell went horribly wrong, learns her roommate, who is the only vampire on campus, is the suspect in a series of attacks on students and sets out to find the real culprit.

21. Matched by Ally Condie 9780525423645 Fantasy Cassia has always had complete trust in the Society to make decisions for her, but when she is being paired with her ideal mate, a second face flashes on the screen, and Cassia begins to doubt the Society's infallibility as she tries to decide which man she truly loves.

22. Once By Morris Gleitzman ISBN 9780805090260 Fiction After living in an Catholic orphanage for nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs away and embarks on a journey across Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents.

23. Raised by Wolves By Jennifer Lynn Barnes ISBN 9781606840597 Fantasy A girl raised by werewolves must face the horrors of her past to uncover the dark secrets that the pack has worked so hard to hide.

24. The Red Pyramid By Rick Riordan ISBN 9781423113381 Fantasy Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharoahs.

25. Somebody Everybody Listens To By Suzanne Supplee ISBN 9780525422426 Fiction Upon graduating from high school in the tiny town of Starling, Tennessee, aspiring country singer Retta Lee Jones manages to get herself to Nashville, where, in spite of some bad luck and hard times, she tries to persevere in pursuing her dreams.

26. The Stuff of Legend, Vol. 1 The Dark By Mike Raicht, et.al. ISBN 9780345521002 Graphic Novel In 1944, as the Allied forces battle the enemy in Europe, a young boy is snatched from his Brooklyn home by the Boogeyman, and his playthings, led by a brave toy soldier, band together to stage a dangerous and daring rescue.

27. Virals By Kathy Reichs ISBN 9781595143426 Mystery/Action Tory Brennan and her friends are exposed to a canine parvovirus when they rescue a dog from a medical testing facility and soon realize they have heightened senses, which they use to solve a cold case murder.

28. B.B. Wolf and the Three LPs By JD Arnold ISBN 9781603090292 Graphic Novel BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr. Littlepig tries to use a legal technicality to take his land.

29. Before I Fall By Lauren Oliver ISBN 9780061726804 Fiction After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.

30. Bright Young Things By Anna Godbersen ISBN 9780061962660 Fiction In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.

31. The Cardturner By Louis Sachar ISBN 9780385736626 Fiction When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.

32. Clockwork Angel By Cassandra Clare ISBN 9781416975861 Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.

33. Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares By Rachel Cohn and David Levithan ISBN 9780375866593 Fiction Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what--or who--they will find.

34. Dirty Little Secrets By C.J. Omololu ISBN 9780802786609 Fiction When her unstable mother dies unexpectedly, sixteen-year-old Lucy must take control and find a way to keep the long-held secret of her mother's compulsive hoarding from being revealed to friends, neighbors, and especially the media.

35. Glimpse By Carol Lynch Williams ISBN 9781416997306 Fiction Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason.

36. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer By Lish McBride ISBN 9780805090987 Fantasy Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

37. How I Made It To Eighteen: A Mostly True Story By Tracy White ISBN 9781596434547 Graphic Novel The author shares her struggles with self-esteem, drug addiction, and depression; and describes how she admitted herself to a mental institution after she put her fist through a window.

38. The Iron King By Julie Kagawa ISBN 9780373210084 Fantasy Sixteen-year-old Meghan, who has felt like something in her life has been slightly off since her father disappeared when she was six, learns that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king, becomes involved in a deadly war, and tries to find love with a young prince.

39. Revolution By Jennifer Donnelly IBN 9780385737630 Historical Fiction An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.

40. Rot & Ruin By Jonathan Maberry ISNB 9781442402324 Horror In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter.

41. Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers By John Harris Dunning and Nikhil Singh ISBN 9780763647353 Graphic Novel Upon his father's death, Salem inherits a mansion as well as an unfinished battle with creatures from another world, which requires him to seek the help of his guardian familiar and the colorful performers of Dr. Kinoshita's Circus of Unearthly Delights.

42. Shadoweyes By Ross Campbell ISBN 9781593621896 Graphic Novel Scout Montana, now the superhero Shadoweyes, is joined in her vigilante activities by her longtime crush Noah and new friend Sparkle.

43. Split By SwatiAvasthi ISBN 9780375863400 Fiction A teenaged boy thrown out of his house by his abusive father goes to live with his older brother, who ran away from home years earlier under similar circumstances.

44. The Sky Is Everywhere By Jandy Nelson ISBN 9780803734951 Fiction In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician.

45. The Things a Brother Knows By Dana Reinhardt ISBN 9780375844553 Fiction Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.

46. Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood By JameRicard ISBN 9780375958854 Historical Fiction Sixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. Includes an author's note and historical timeline.

47. Vixen: The Flappers By Jillian Larkin ISBN 9780385740344 Historical Fiction Seventeen-year-old socialite Gloria secretly longs to be a flapper, but now that she is engaged to Sebastian, she must leave her partying days behind, until her future is threatened by an alluring jazz musician who encourages Gloria to risk everything.

48. Arkansas Teen Book Award 2011-2012 Reading List Level 1 • After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick (Fiction) • Amelia Earhart: This Broad Ocean by Sarah Stewart Taylor (Graphic) • Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (Graphic) • Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson (Fiction) • Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien (Dystopian/Fantasy) • Boneshaker by Kate Milford (Fantasy/Action) • Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber (Fiction) • Dark Life by Kat Falls (Ecofiction/SciFi) • Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon (Fantasy/Romance) • Fat Boy Chronicles by Diane Lang (Fiction) • The Gardener by S.A. Bodeen (Science Fiction) • Grimm Legacy by Polly Schulman (Fantasy) • Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins (Fantasy) • Matched by Ally Condie (Fantasy) • Once by Morris Gleitzman (Fiction) • Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Fantasy) • Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan (Fantasy) • Somebody Everybody Listens To by Suzanne Supplee (Fiction) • Stuff of Legend, Vol. 1: The Dark by Mike Raicht, et. (Graphic) • Virals by Kathy Reichs (Mystery/Action)

49. Arkansas Teen Book Award 2011-2012 Reading List Level 2 • B.B. Wolf and the Three LPs by J.D. Arnold (Graphic) • Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (Fiction) • Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen (Historical Fiction) • The Cardturner by Louis Sachar (Fiction) • Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (Fantasy) • Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (Fiction) • Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu (Fiction) • Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams (Fiction) • Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride (Fantasy) • How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story by Tracy White (Graphic) • Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Fantasy) • Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly (Historical Fiction) • Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry (Horror) • Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers by John Dunning (Graphic) • Shadoweyes by Campbell Ross (Graphic) • Split by Swati Avasthi (Fiction) • The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson (Fiction) • Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt (Fiction) • Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood by James Ricard (Historical Fiction) • Vixen by Jillian Larkin (Historical Fiction)