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Florida Teens Read

teens read logoThe Florida Association for Media in Education has a young adult reading award for students in grades 9-12, Florida Teens Read. The mission of the program is to encourage Florida teens to read enjoyable, quality literature that will stimulate imagination, awaken curiosity, expand horizons, enhance verbal fluency, and foster critical thinking and a lifelong love for reading and learning.

Florida Teens Read will nominate ten to fifteen books per year. The books nominated will be chosen to:

  • Engage high school students
  • Reflect interests of high school students
  • Represent a variety of genres, formats, reading levels, viewpoints, and ethnic and cultural perspectives
  • Include both books written for young people and those written for adults

The books may be fiction or nonfiction with a copyright within the last three years. Currently, high schools will not need to register to participate in voting for their favorite book. FAME is developing a blog for students to share perceptions of the books with their peers and to recommend titles of interest. For more information, including guidelines and resources to promote the program, go to FAME's Florida Teens Reads web page.


The 2008-2009 Winner

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by Jay Asher

2009-2010 Reading List
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Little

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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

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Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

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Gym Candy by Carl Deuker

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Homeboyz (Mature Themes) by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

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The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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The Last Exit to Normal by Michael B. Harmon

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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The Market by J. M. Steele

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Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham

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Shift by Jennifer Bradbury

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Suck It Up by Brian Meehl

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Suite Scarlett by Maureen Johnson

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Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

     

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