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The 2009 Kirkus Reviews Book Video Awards challenges student filmmakers to produce video trailers for three upcoming YA novels published by Delacorte Press. This year’s chosen titles are:

• Fallen by Lauren Kate
• Very LeFreak by Rachel Cohn
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

The finalists for the 4th annual Teen Book Video Awards are Benjamin Bliss (Fallen), Rosie Lambert (Very LeFreak), and Brighton Linge (The Maze Runner).

The polls are open through Oct. 30th, so be sure to vote for your favorite video and send the link to everyone you know so they can check them out too!

To watch these enticing book trailers, vote for your favorite, and read more about the competition and each of the filmmakers, visit http://www.barnesandnoble.com/kirkusbva/.

More than 11,000 teen voters chose Paper Towns as their favorite book in the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten! The online poll took place from Aug. 24 through Sept. 18, with the winners announced during Teen Read Week by WWE Divas Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, with a special appearance by John Green. See the video.

1. Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin/Dutton)
2. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
4. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
5. Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Simon & Schuster/Margaret K. McElderry)
6. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
7. Wake by Lisa McMann (Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse)
8. Untamed by P.C. and Kristin Cast (St. Martin’s Griffin)
9. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (Disney-Hyperion)
10. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Voting for the 2009 American Library Association Teens’ Top Ten is now open!  Teens can vote for up to three of their favorite titles from the 2009 nominees.  Click on the Voice Your Choice picture above and vote now!

From Booklist Magazine Online, May 14 2009 -

Perhaps reflecting the unease in every society that something darker lurks beneath the veneer of civilization, a growing body of dystopian literature has recently dominated the YA science-fiction and fantasy genres. In the same spirit as Lois Lowry’s now-classic The Giver (1993), these books not only offer teens excellent escapist fare rife with survivalist adventure and grim imaginings of future worlds but also an opportunity to reflect on how the issues in their own lives and societies are mirrored in these worlds gone horribly wrong.

See the complete list of suggested titles by clicking here.

DBRLTeen has previously reviewed Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother – click here to read our review.

25 books nominated, and 25 weeks before voting begins for this year’s Teens’ Top Ten!  Just read one a week so you can make an informed decision in October.  Or, well, maybe that’s too much to ask, but check the list anyway and see if any of these titles sound interesting.  Click here to see the complete list and a short description of each.

Teens’ Top Ten is a “teen choice” list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books of the previous year! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted in April during National Library Week, and teens across the country vote on their favorite titles each year during Teen Read Week (Oct. 18-24). Readers aged twelve to eighteen can vote online that week.