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  • List: Teens' Top Ten
  • Award year: 2016
  • Alive

    Alive

    By Chandler Baker

    Stella Cross has received a heart transplant, but it has not stopped her emotional suffering. Then a mysterious boy named Levi Zin comes into her life. Stella's pain goes away whenever she's around Levi. However, Stella finds out a terrible secret about Levi. Can it be true?
  • All the Bright Places

    All the Bright Places

    By Jennifer Niven

    Death plays a big role in the lives of high schoolers Theodore Finch and Violet Markey. He is constantly on the verge of suicide, and she is battling grief after her sister's death. The Indiana teens come together to work on a project and soon develop a bond, showing each other what it's like to live.
  • Every Last Word

    Every Last Word

    By Tamara Ireland Stone

    Samantha McAllister seems to have it all: she is beautiful, bright and part of the popular crowd in high school. But looks can be deceiving, and she is hiding the fact she has Obsessive Compulsive. Disorder (OCD). Samantha's life changes after she visits a place at school called Poet's Corner and she begins hanging out with new friends like Caroline and AJ.
  • Everything, Everything

    Everything, Everything

    By Nicola Yoon

    Maddy is a teenager with a serious autoimmune disease that prevents her from leaving the house. Yet, she seems content to stay home and read books. That is until a boy named Olly moves in next door. The two meet, and their quirky relationship is chronicled through emails, journal entries, IMs and old notes.
  • The Game of Love and Death

    The Game of Love and Death

    By Martha Brockenbrough

    Set in Seattle in the 1920s, a romance develops between Flora, who is African American, and Henry, who is white. Despite some differences, the pair has much in common, including a shared love of jazz music. However, it turns out that Flora and Henry actually are pawns in a game played by two other characters – Love and Death. This book is full of intrigue and is, at times, heartbreaking, and will have the reader racing to the final pages.
  • Illuminae

    Illuminae

    By Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff

    Kady and Ezra have just broken up, and then their planet is bombed by a megacorporation. The pair escapes to a government ship, but must put their differences aside in order to survive and stop a plague that has resulted from the use of a bioweapon.
  • The Novice: Summoner: Book One

    The Novice: Summoner: Book One

    By Taran Matharu

    A blacksmith's apprentice named Fletcher discovers he can summon demons from another world. He soon gets chased out of his village for a crime he did not commit, ending up at an academy for adepts, where he is trained to serve as a Battlemage in the Empire's war against the savage Orcs. Eventually, Fletcher discovers the fate of the Empire is in his hands.
  • Six of Crows

    Six of Crows

    By Leigh Bardugo

    Young criminal genius Kaz Brekker is offered the chance to pull off a dangerous theft that can make him rich. He recruits a gang of six dangerous misfits to help him with the heist. The book follows the crew's crazy adventure and features plot twists, betrayals, and schemes aplenty.
  • Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

    Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

    By Lynn Weingarten

    June and Delia were best friends who grew apart. Then, Delia commits suicide. Or, at least that's what others have been told. June believes her former best friend has been murdered, and she goes on a quest to find the truth . . . which, it turns out, is very complicated.
  • When

    When

    By Victoria Laurie

    High school junior Maddie Fynn has special powers that allow her to see numbers above a person's forehead, which she soon discovers are death dates. She identifies the death date of a young boy, but is unable to prevent his disappearance. Then, Maddie becomes a suspect in a homicide investigation.