Hello and please pardon the cross-postings,

It is with great pleasure that I announce the winners of the 2012 Garden State Teen Book Awards (word doc attached if that is easier for you to use).

Fiction grades 6-8 WINNER: The Maze Runner by James Dashner SECOND: My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald THIRD: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Fiction grades 9-12 WINNER: Fire by Kristin Cashore SECOND: Hate List by Jennifer Brown THIRD: Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Non-fiction grades 6-12 WINNER: Anne Frank:Her Life in words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol SECOND:The Skateboarding Field Manual by Ryan Stutt THIRD:I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six Word Memoirs by Teens by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser

I want to thank all the librarians and teachers who encouraged teens to vote! Votes came in via paper ballots, the online form, and our facebook page.

Keep your eye out for the 2013 ballot in April and get those teens voting early.