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Booklists (Compiled by Jefferson County Public Library staff)

Grades 6-8
Cool Reads for Teens

Grades 9-12
Cool Reads for Teens

For All Ages
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Read It! For Teens by Teens
Read reviews written by Jefferson County teens about their favorite books. Add your own comments too.



Booklists (Selected Web Sites)
Book Divas
Online community and book club for young adult and college readers.

Katie's Book Blog

readergirlz
A site that will give you book great recommendations from teenagers across the country plus the inside scoop on why a book was written. Become a Readergirl yourself!

Series and Sequels
After trying and failing to find a good source for series and sequels for teen books, two public librarians developed their own.

Spinebreakers
Any story-surfing, web-exploring, word-loving, day-dreaming, reader/writer/artist/thinker aged 13-18

Teenreads.com
Book reviews, authors, quotes and questions. Formerly called "Book Bag."

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Includes book reviews, author interviews, and contests.

What's Next?
Search here to find additional titles in your favorite fiction series.

YALSA Booklists & Book Awards
See what Young Adult Librarians have selected as the best books, audiobooks, videos and DVDs.

YALSA's Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults 2010
Top ten books of 2010.

YourNextRead.com
Type in the name of your favorite book or author, and this website will give you some similar books to try.



Booklists from NextReads (Email newsletters with selected titles of great reads)
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Teen Scene

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Comics and Graphic Novels
9th Elsewhere
Since January 2003, the Webcomic '9th Elsewhere' has shared the story of an unhappy girl and her oddball muse trapped together in a dream.

COMICON.com
The World's Biggest Comic Book Convention, online.

GET GRAPHIC
Community project designed to introduce the exciting and extremely popular literary format of graphic novels.

no flying, no tights
Reviews of graphic novels for teens.

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Megatokyo
Megatokyo follows two guys (one an anime fan; the other a gamer) who hop a plane to Tokyo and then can't afford to get back to the United States. It would be simple enough if things didn't keep happening to them.

Online Comics
Online Comics is the largest directory of online comics - over 2,700 in 20 categories. It includes reviews.

Rei's Anime and Manga Page
The place for information about anime and manga.



Miscellaneous lists
Carnegie Library of Pittsburg Teen Reads
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's teen booklists - lots of great reading ideas.

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Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
Current nominees and past winners chosen by Colorado middle and high school students. Info on nominating and voting for your favorites.



College Bound
Outstanding Books for the College Bound
An annotated list of fiction, nonfiction, biography, drama and poetry titles to help prepare you for the kind of reading you'll do in college.

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Banned/Challenged Books
Challenged and Banned Books
The American Library Association keeps track of books that have been challenged or banned. We think you'll be surprised to find some of your favorites on the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books list. Also includes other interesting information on banned books.

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Author Sites
Authors' Websites and Blogs - Hennepin County Library
Authors of teen books with their own websites. Many share advice for teens who want to be writers themselves!

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Young Adult Authors in the Yahoo! Directory
Find resources about young adult books and authors, including biographies, fan sites, news, interviews, study guides, and lesson plans.

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