2017 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees announced

CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association, has officially announced the 2017 Teens Top Ten Nominees.

This year’s list of nominees features 26 titles that were published between Jan. 1, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2016.  The nominees are as follows:

• Black, Jenna. Nightstruck. Tor Teen.
• Bosworth, Jennifer. The Killing Jar. Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux.
• Bracken, Alexandra. Passenger. Disney-Hyperion.
• Braswell, Liz. Once Upon a Dream. Disney Press.
• Buxbaum, Julie. Tell Me Three Things. Random House.
• Clare, Cassandra. Lady Midnight. Margaret K. McElderry.
• Dennard, Susan. Truthwitch. Tor Teen.
• Dinan, Kurt. Don’t Get Caught. Sourcebooks Fire.
• Federle, Tim. The Great American Whatever. Simon & Schuster.
• Freedman, Russell. We Will Not Be Silent. Clarion Books.
• Glasgow, Kathleen. Girl in Pieces. Delacorte Press.
• Gout, Leopoldo. Genius: The Game. Feiwel & Friends.
• Hamilton, Alwyn. Rebel of the Sands. Viking Books.
• Kincaid, S. J. The Diabolic. Simon & Schuster.
• Landers, Melissa. Starflight. Disney-Hyperion.
• Martin, Emily. The Year We Fell Apart. Simon & Schuster.
• McIntosh, Will. Burning Midnight. Random House.
• Meyer, Marissa. Heartless. Feiwel & Friends.
• Mills, Wendy. All We Have Left. Bloomsbury.
• Nijkamp, Marieke. This is Where It Ends. Sourcebooks Fire.
• Russo, Meredith. If I Was Your Girl. Flatiron Books.
• Shusterman, Neal. Scythe. Simon & Schuster.
• Welch, Jenna Evans. Love & Gelato. Simon & Schuster.
• West, Kasie. P.S. I Like You. Scholastic.
• Williamson, Lisa. The Art of Being Normal. Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux.
• Yoon, Nicola. The Sun is Also a Star. Delacorte Press.

A video featuring actors Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson from the upcoming movie adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s Everything, Everything, a 2016 Teens’ Top Ten winner, announcing the nominees can be found on the Teens' Top Ten website. An annotated list of the nominees is also available.

YALSA is calling on libraries to encourage teens to read the nominees throughout the summer so they are ready for the national Teens’ Top Ten vote, which will take place August 15 through Teen Read Week (October 8-14). The ten nominees that receive the most votes will be named the official 2017 Teens’ Top Ten. To learn more and to access a free Teens’ Top Ten Toolkit, visit www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten.

In celebration of the nominees being named, YALSA will be giving away 50 sets of the nominees through its 2017 Teens’ Top Ten Book Giveaway, generously funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Eligible applicants can apply now through May 1, 2017 via this online form.

A digital image of a Teens’ Top Ten seal for nominated titles is available to publishers for licensing. Arrangements can be made through ALA’s Rights and Permissions office for publishers who need permission to reproduce the seal on a paperback edition of book jacket. Contact permissions@ala.org or Mary Jo Bolduc, (312) 280-5416 (phone) or (312) 944-8741 (fax) for information.

The 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 sixteen school and public libraries around the country. Nominations are posted the Thursday of National Library Week. For more information about the Teens’ Top Ten, please visit www.ala.org/yalsa/teenstopten.

The mission of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) is to support library staff in alleviating the challenges teens face, and in putting all teens ‒ especially those with the greatest needs ‒ on the path to successful and fulfilling lives. For more information about YALSA or to access national guidelines and other resources go to www.ala.org/yalsa, or contact the YALSA office by phone, 800-545-2433, ext. 4390; or e-mail: yalsa@ala.org.