Teens' Top Ten for 2012

It is time to vote for your favorite YA books for 2012!  YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) now has voting open.  You can vote now through September 15th for your 3 favorite books!  The Teens' Top Ten will be announced during Teen Read Week, October 14-20, 2012. 

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

Monument 14 is an action packed, dystopian novel that will keep you turning the pages.  This novel follows sixteen young people from elementary age through high school as they are hold up in a discount store after their bus driver plows through the entrance in an effort to shelter them from a horrendous hail storm.  At first they  act like most teens and are thrilled that they have all the junk food available to them that they could possibly want.  The hail storm is just the beginning as they are exposed to a massive chemical spill that could change their world as they know it.  Realizing they are in for the long haul, the kids step up to accept daily roles. Because there is such a wide range of ages among these kids, they start to get to know each other on levels they never would have through just sharing a bus ride. 

At the end, Monument 14 will leave you waiting to find out if there will be another book and will this be a series.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Ca't Stop Talking by Susan Cain

Explores how introverts have been overlooked in our society while extroverts have become the ideal in the twentieth century and discusses the research that has been done in the fields of psychology and neuroscience which reveals the differences between these two types of people. Includes chapter notes and an index. 

I found this book so fascinating!  If you are an introvert, you will probably relate.  If you are an extroverts, it will help you to understand and get along with others who are introverts.