Winners of YARP/South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards
Middle School
- Winner - Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits (144 votes, 462 stars)
- Runner up - Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham (101 votes, 362 stars)
High School
Winner - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (114 votes, 428 stars)- Runner up - I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder (113 votes, 417 stars)
This year there were 1,785 valid votes! There was an increase of over 600 votes from last year!
Sponsored by the South Dakota Library Association, the contest features two lists of fifteen nominated titles for middle school and high school grades To qualify to vote, students read books from the list and give it a star rating of 1 to 4, 4 being best. The book receiving the most stars on each list receives the award.
2009-10 YARP Reading ListEach year the Young Adult Reading Program (YARP) Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list to promote quality literature and to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents. The books are selected from among the many young adult and adult books that have received positive reviews by national reviewing periodicals.
- Middle School List
- Battle Cry by Jan Neubert Schultz
- Beauty Shop for Rent… Fully Equipped, Inquire Within by Laura Bowers
- Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits
- Brothers, Boyfriends, and Other Criminal Minds by April Lurie
- The Declaration by Gemma Malley
- Freak by Marcella Pixley
- Gym Candy by Carl Deuker
- Hurricane by Terry Trueman
- If A Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
- Pieces of Georgia by Jen Bryant
- The Real Benedict Arnold by Jim Murphy
- Red Moon at Sharpesburg by Rosemary Wells
- Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
- Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
- The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
- High School List
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Airman by Eoin Colfer
- Beastly by Alex Flinn
- Bunker 10 by J.A. Henderson
- Deadline by Chris Crutcher
- How Ya Like Me Now by Brenda Halpin
- I Heart You, You Haunt Me by Lisa Schroeder
- Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
- My Swordhand Is Singing by Marcus Sedgwick
- Saturday Night Dirt by Will Weaver
- Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel
- Skate by Michael Harmon
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Unwind by Neal Schusterman
- Wake by Lisa McMann
