"Welcome to our Best of 2010 top 10 lists for Teens. We've put our editors' picks and our 2010 bestsellers for each category on the same page together, so you can easily compare. Click on "Editors' Picks" (or "Editors' Picks: Kindle eBooks") to see our choices for the best books for teens of 2010, including our top pick, John Green and David Levithan's Will Grayson, Will Grayson."
| 1. |  | Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green | ||||||
| In Stock Dutton Juvenile April 6, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: What's in a name? A pretty fantastic book idea, for starters. At heart, Will Grayson, Will Grayson is about a couple of kids figuring out how to be themselves. Two of those kids happen to have the same name, and not ... Read more | ||||||||
| 2. |  | Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly | ||||||
| In Stock Delacorte Books for Young Readers October 12, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2010: Revolution, Jennifer Donnelly's remarkable new novel, weaves together the lives of Andi Alpers, a depressed modern-day teenager, and Alexandrine Paradis, a brave young woman caught up in the French Revolution. While in Paris with her estranged father, a Nobel ... Read more | ||||||||
| 3. |  | Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver | ||||||
| In Stock HarperCollins March 2, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review In this Groundhog Day meets Mean Girls teen hybrid, Sam Kingston is pretty, popular, and has a seemingly perfect boyfriend. But after a late-night party everything goes terribly wrong, and the life that she lived is gone forever. Or is it? At the start of Before I Fall, Sam ... Read more | ||||||||
| 4. |  | Incarceron (Incarceron, Book 1) by Catherine Fisher | ||||||
| In Stock Dial January 26, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2010: The shifting landscapes, unexpected plot punches, and bold, brave characters found in Catherine Fisher's Incarceron are nothing short of thrilling: fans of Garth Nix and Suzanne Collins will take to this epic, twisty fantasy instantly, but it's also the kind of ... Read more | ||||||||
| 5. |  | Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story by Adam Rex | ||||||
| In Stock Balzer + Bray July 27, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: Both fans and foes of the ever-expanding genre of vampire novels will get sucked into this hysterical send-up of those angst-filled, vampire-meets-girl high school dramas. Doug "Meatball" Lee is no Edward, he's just a 15-year-old dork trying to land ... Read more | ||||||||
| 6. |  | I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore | ||||||
| In Stock Harper August 3, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: John Smith has just arrived in Paradise, Ohio, just another stop in a string of small towns where the 15-year-old has been hiding out from the Mogadorians. Those terrifying aliens are hellbent on destroying him and the other nine Loric ... Read more | ||||||||
| 7. |  | Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin | ||||||
| In Stock Dial September 7, 2010 Hardcover |
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| Amazon.com Review Amazon Best of the Month, September 2010: A faerie world is about to die--and one ordinary girl can change its fate. When Phoebe meets Mallory Tolliver, she is irresistibly drawn to her, despite Mallory’s odd ways. The two form a sister-like bond until Mallory’s handsome brother, ... Read more | ||||||||
| 8. |  | Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve | ||||||
| In Stock Scholastic Press April 1, 2010 Hardcover |
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| From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 5–7—Reeve's "Hungry City Quartet" (HarperCollins) remains a landmark of visionary steampunk imagination, with a future where traction cities roll about chasing down smaller cities, which they devour for parts in an exercise called Municipal Darwinism. Returning to this future, Reeve gives readers a story that takes ... Read more | ||||||||
| 9. |  | The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk | ||||||
| In Stock Knopf Books for Young Readers February 9, 2010 Hardcover |
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| From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 8 Up—Will Halpin has ditched his former "deaf school" and is now trying to merge into the auditory-able mainstream at Carbon High in eastern Pennsylvania. As the new, overweight kid who has to sit off to the side during classes so he can try to read ... Read more | ||||||||
| 10. |  | Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi | ||||||
| In Stock Little, Brown Books for Young Readers May 1, 2010 Hardcover |
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| From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up—A fast-paced postapocalyptic adventure set on the American Gulf Coast. Nailer works light crew; his dirty, dangerous job is to crawl deep into the wrecks of the ancient oil tankers that line the beach, scavenging copper wire and turning it over to his crew boss. After a ... Read more ****** So, what do you guys think? My daughter could NOT finish Before I Fall. I was sad that Matched by Ally Condie wasn't included. Also, I wasn't thrilled about I Am Number Four making the list considering the ugliness that transpired from James Frey's Fiction Factory (basically made the book). Let me know your thoughts! Happy Reading! | ||||||||
