2010's Best Teen Books

From her conservative upbringing in small town Texas to rock star legend, Joplin's short life is chronicled here via photographs and quotes from her relatives and friends.

The shocking story of the state of Mississippi's 1956 creation of The Sovereignty Commission, with the mission to spread propaganda. It morphed into a spy network, bent on destroying integration and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Documents from the commission and photographs describe how white politicians organized and paid blacks to infiltrate organizations like the NAACP and more.

Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.

The Council of Elders, having been informed that Tomas still lives, puts off Vlad's execution, providing Vlad the opportunity to try to set some things right.

Told in the alternating voices of Dash and Lily, two sixteen-year-olds carry on a wintry scavenger hunt at Christmas-time in New York, neither knowing quite what they will find.

Katniss is still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to her to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem.

High school junior Violet uses her uncanny ability to sense murder victims to try to stop a serial killer who is terrorizing her town. Although her best friend and would-be boyfriend promises to keep her safe, she soon becomes a target herself.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, yet Jayd is just not feeling the love this year, what with dealing with the recent loss of her friend, Tre, and her nemesis Misty watching her every move. Will Jayd find the love she needs to make it through?

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

It took Luce and her fallen angel boyfriend, Daniel an eternity to find one another, but now he has told her he must go away. Just long enough to hunt down the Outcasts, immortals who want to kill Luce. Daniel hides Luce at Shoreline, a school on the rocky California coast with unusually gifted students: Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans.

By looking closely at four of the most significant hominins ever discovered, the authors explain how Turkana Boy, Lapedo Child, Kennewick Man, and Iceman have influenced debates about the nature of the earliest members of the family Hominidae.

In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.

High school senior Parker Fadley has quit the cheerleading squad, broken up with her popular boyfriend, and is in danger of not graduating with her class, but she refuses to tell anyone what has precipitated this sudden change in her attitude and behavior, insisting that she only wants to be left alone.