More than 6,000 teen readers across the country chose “New Moon” by Stephenie Meyer as their favorite book in the annual Teens’ Top Ten. The online vote took place during Teen Read Week, October 14–20, 2007, with the second entry in Meyer’s popular vampire romance series winning easily.

The 2007 Teens’ Top Ten is:

1. New Moon
by Stephenie Meyer
Published 2006 by Megan Tingley Books

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Jacket Notes:  This follow-up novel to the "New York Times" bestseller "Twilight" proves to be another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Star-crossed lovers Bella and Edward face new obstacles in this vampire love story.
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2. Just Listen
by Sarah Dessen
Published 2006 by Viking Books

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Jacket Notes: This multi-layered tale tells the story of a year in the life of a family coming to terms with the imperfections beneath its perfect facade. More . . .

3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles (Flux, 2006).

The Greensboro Public Library does not own this book yet.  Should we buy it??? 

Jacket Notes: Amy is a spoiled American teenager with an attitude to match her Jimmy Choo slides. When her estranged father drags her to Israel to meet a family she's never known, one hilarious humiliation after another tests Amy's fierce spirit.  More . . .

4. School's Out-Forever
by James Patterson
Published 2006 by Little Brown and Company

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Jacket Notes:  In this eagerly awaited follow-up, brave bird-kid Max and her flock are discovered by an FBI agent and forced to go to "school." There is no such thing as an ordinary day as Max deciphers how and when she's supposed to save the world, and she faces her greatest enemy--a clone of herself.  More . . .

5. Firegirl
by Tony Abbott
Published 2006 by Little Brown and Company

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Jacket Notes: From the moment Jessica arrives, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They learn that Jessica was in a fire and was badly burned, and will be attending St. Catherines while getting medical treatments. More . . .

6. All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
by Vivian Vande Velde
Published 2006 by Harcourt Children's Books

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Jacket Notes: Celebrated author Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of 13 scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night.  More . . .

7. Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Published 2006 by Harcourt Children's Books

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Jacket Notes: When a meteor hits the moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable. Told in journal entries, this is the heart-pounding story of Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. More . . .

8. River Secrets
by Shannon Hale
Published 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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Jacket Notes:  Razo has no idea why he was chosen to be a soldier. He can barely swing a sword, and his brothers are forever wrestling him to the ground. Razo is sure it's out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission--escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great enemy.

But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. He befriends both the high and low born, people who can perhaps provide them with vital information. And Razo is the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive.

Newbery-Honor winner Shannon Hale returns the reader to the intrigue and magic of Bayern, first introduced in her critically acclaimed novel, "The Goose Girl," Enter a world where even those with no special magical skills find in themselves something they never imagined. More . . .

9. Bad Kitty
by Michele Jaffe
Published 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers

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Jacket Notes: With the glitz of Las Vegas and an entertaining cast of characters, this novel tells the story of 17-year-old Jasmine, who becomes tangled in the leash of a badly misbehaving pet cat and is tossed headlong into mystery, intrigue, and romance.
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10. Road of the Dead
by Kevin Brooks
Published 2006 by Chicken House

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Jacket Notes: Blood runs thick when two brothers leave their London home on a journey to the ghostly moors of Devon to hunt down the truth about their sister's savage death.
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