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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.

It’s time for us to plan for another great Teen Summer Reading Program!  Do you have any suggestions for us?  Please take our short survey by clicking this sentence!

YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association (teen librarians), has just announced their 2009 Top Ten Books for Young Adults.  What is a young adult?  Well, if you’re 12 or 13 up to 19 or so you are.  (We librarians call you “young adults” instead of “teenagers” so you’ll like us better.)  Here is the list, with links to our catalog for the titles we currently have:

• It’s Complicated: The American Teenager, by Robin Bowman – we don’t have
• Waiting for Normal, by Leslie Connor.
• Mexican WhiteBoy, by Matt de la Pena – Yea!  Click here to read our review.
• Bog Child, by Siobhan Dowd.
• The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
• Ten Cents a Dance, by Christine Fletcher – we don’t have
• Baby, by Joseph Monninger – we don’t have
• Nation, by Terry Pratchett – it’s also a 2009 Printz Award Honor Book.
• Skim, by Mariko Tamaki & Jillian Tamaki – we don’t have
• The Brothers Torres, by Coert Voorhees.

More than 8,000 teens from across the country voiced their choice for their favorite books in the annual Teens’ Top Ten poll during Teen Read Week, Oct. 12-18, with “Eclipse,” the third book in Meyer’s vampire series easily taking first place. This is Meyer’s second time atop the Teens’ Top Ten list, as “New Moon” took the top slot last year.

First National Bank & Trust is sponsoring a photography exhibit for young photographers in two age categories – 12 and under, and 13 to 17.  Photographs will be exhibited at First National Bank, 801 E. Broadway in Columbia on September 27 and 28.  Teen photographers can submit a single photograph, which must be framed no larger than 16 x 20, with the frame fitted with wire for hanging.  Photos must be delivered to the bank on Saturday Sept. 20.  For more details and an entry form go to the First National Bank website.  The library also has copies of the entry form in the Children’s area.

The American Library Association has chosen Josh Hutcherson, star of Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, Bridge to Terabithia, Zathura, and many other movies, as the Spokesperson for Teen Read Week.  Read an interview with him here.  Josh will also be starring in the upcoming movie based on the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan.