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2013 Award Winners


The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

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2013 Garden State Teen Book Award Winners


Fiction, Grades 6-8


Lost Hero by Rick Riordan


Non-Fiction, Grades 6-12




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Teen Online Summer Reading

Give the Gifts of Books!



If they like … The Hunger Games and dystopian fiction


Worldshaker by Richard Harland (Series) Grades 6+

Legend by Marie Lu (Series) Grades 7+

Enclave by Ann Aguirre (Series) Grades 8+

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry (Series) Grades 9+


If they like … Twilight and supernatural romance


Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare Grades 9+

Unspoken: The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan (Series) Grades 7 +


If they like … Stormbreaker and non-stop action


The Assault by Brian Faulkner Grades 6+

Insignia by S.J. Kincaid Grades 7+


If they like … Lord of the Rings and high fantasy


A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin (Series) Grades 6+

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (Series) Grades 7+

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (Series) Grades 9+


If they like … The Monsterologist and horror novels


The Spook’s Apprentice by John Flanagan (Series) Grades 5+

Department 19 by Will Hill (Series) Grades 9+


If they like … Mike Lupica and sports fiction


Rush for the Gold: A mystery at the Olympics by John Feinstein Grades 6+

Curveball: The Year I Lost my Grip by Jordan Sonneblick Grades 7+


If they like … The Simpsons and funny novels


Dark Lord, the Early Years by Jamie Thomson Grades 6+

Guy Langman, crime scene procrastinator by Josh Berk Grades 8+


If they like … The Clique and contemporary romance


Smart Girls Get What They Want by Sarah Stohmeyer Grades 7+

Prom & Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg Grades 9+


If they like … Eragon and daring dragons


The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde Grades 5+

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman Grades 6+


If they like … Hatchet and survival stories


If We Survive by Andrew Klavin Grades 7+

This is Not a Drill by Beck McDowell Grades 7+

The Marbury Lens by Andrew Smith (Series) Grades 9+

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BOUND BROOK

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BRIDGEWATER

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MANVILLE

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(609) 924-7073, ext. 102

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(908) 755-7909

PEAPACK-GLADSTONE

(908) 234-0598

SOMERVILLE

(908) 725-1336

WARREN

(908) 754-5554

WATCHUNG

(908) 561-0117

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Puckers Up by Mark Peter Hughes

Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

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