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“Eclipse” tops YALSA’s 2008 Teens’ Top Ten
CHICAGO — More than 8,000 teen readers across the country chose “Eclipse” by Stephenie Meyer as their favorite book in the annual Teens’ Top Ten (TTT) vote, sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The online vote took place during Teen Read Week, Oct. 12–18, with the third entry in Meyer’s popular vampire romance series winning easily.

The 2008 Teens’ Top Ten is:
1. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group
USA)
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (Scholastic)
3. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
4. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead (Razorbill)
5. Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson (Little,
Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group USA)
6. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (Margaret K. McElderry)
7. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (Delacorte)
8. Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
9. Before I Die by Jenny Downham (Random House/David Fickling)
10. Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking Juvenile)

TTT is a “teen choice” booklist, put together as part of YALSA’s Young Adult (YA) Galley Project, which facilitates access to advance copies of young adult books to national teen book discussion groups. These groups evaluated books published between January 2007 through April 2008 and then created a list of 26 nominations. Teen voters across the country then cast ballots for their three favorites, creating the 2008 Teens’ Top Ten. Final nominations for the 2009 Teens’ Top Ten vote will be posted during National Library Week 2009 at www.ala.org/teenstopten.