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October 07, 2005

Teens' Top 10 for 2005 Book List

Teens can help create an exciting nationwide list of books chosen for teens by teens as the best reads of the year - Teens' Top Ten Books! The nominees were chosen by teen book groups from five states: Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, and Washington state.

Vote for your favorites during Teen Read Week, October 16-22, 2005.

Choose from 78 nominated titles including...

T. A. Barron. The Great Tree of Avalon Book 1: Child of the Dark Prophecy
In accordance with prophecy, Avalon's existence is threatened in the year that stars stop shining and at the time when both the dark child and Merlin's heir are to be revealed.

S. E. Hinton. Hawkes Harbor
Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner-and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he's survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in a quiet seaside town in Delaware, Jamie discovered something that was enough to drive him insane-and change his life forever.

Allan Wolf. New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery
The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's Newfoundland dog, all tell of the historic exploratory expedition to seek a water route to the Pacific Ocean.