2005 Teens' Favorite Young Adult Books

Teen readers across the country vote for the best

from the American Library Association

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Teen readers across the country voted Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares as their favorite book on 2006's Teens' Top Ten (TTT), sponsored by The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The vote took place during Teen Read Week and gave teens an opportunity to voice their choice of the best recent young adult books.

1. Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2005)
2. The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen (Viking, 2004)
3. Looking For Alaska by John Green (Dutton, 2005)
4. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Atria Books, 2004)
5. Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (Scholastic Press, 2004)
6. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment by James Patterson (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005)
7. The Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah (Bloomsbury, 2004)
8. Teen Idol by Meg Cabot (HarperCollins, 2004)
9. The Garden by Elise Aidinoff (Harper Tempest, 2004)
10. How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Acito (Broadway Books, 2004)

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