Garden State Teen Book Awards

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Updated for 2010! Click here for current GSTBA ballots, current and past annotated lists of nominated titles, and past winners documents.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Garden State Teen Book Awards!

Grades 6-8: Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer

Grades 9-12: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Nonfiction 6-12: Freedom Riders : John Lewis & Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum

Find the official announcement here: http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/teen.html

Frequently Asked Questions about the Garden State Teen Book Awards (last revised, Oct. 2009): GSTBA FAQ (Word document)

The official rules and explanation of the GSTBA ballot process can be found at: http://www.njla.org/honorsawards/book/index.html

Tools for GSTBA readers:

Reader Feedback Form (Word document)

Book Review Code (Word document)

Twenty nominated titles on each list? That's it?! The YA Section and GSTBA readers work hard each year to put together a ballot that has equal weight popularity, quality, and diversity (to represent the wealth of published teen literature as well as the great state of New Jersey). But each year, there are some titles -- that we LOVE -- that just don't make the list. A few years ago, we started to keep track of these "we love you, but we loved another more" titles and we call this second list our Bridesmaids.