TeenCenter - YARP TeenCenter Home

Each 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.

Teen Choice Award winners for 2009

Congratulations to the winners of the second annual South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards!

South Dakota's teens have voted and the winners are...

    For the Middle School list:
  1. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson with 352 stars total
  2. Heat by Mike Lupica with 302 stars total
    For the High School list:
  1. Runner by Carl Deuker with 204 stars total
  2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen with 190 stars total

There were 1,152 valid votes with 659 votes for the Middle School books, and 493 votes for the High School books. Voting started during Teen Read Week in October of 2008 and ran through April 1, 2009.

Thank you to all the teens who voted and all the librarians who made the books available for them!

Next year's list will be available in June and voting will begin during Teen Read Week 2009.

For the first time since 1989, teens voted on the titles from the current 2007 list and awarded their favorite book for the SD Teen Choice Award. SD YARP Teen Reads Committee is proud to announce for the Middle School category, Copper Sun by Sharon Draper and Fake ID by Walter Sorrells for the High School category as the winners of the 2008 SD Teen Choice Awards.

Votes are tallied by how many total stars a book was given on a 1-4 (4 being best) scale. Students can vote only for books that they read, but can vote for any book they read as many times as they want.

The SD YARP Teen Reads Committee will announce the winners of the SD Teen Choice Awards each year during National Library Week. There will be a winner for Middle and High School levels. Voting will begin during Teen Read Week and will take place until March 31, 2009.

For more information about the South Dakota Teen Choice Awards or the SD Young Adult Reading Program, please visit our website at http://library.sd.gov/teencenter/WordsToChillBy.htm or contact your local school library or public library.