The following titles are nominated for the Florida Teens Read Award. Your vote determines the winner!
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
I've left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don't, put the book back on the shelf, please. Lily has left a red notebook of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept the dares. Is Dash the right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth throughout New York City at Christmas time?
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Three misunderstood teens; Tamika, half-deaf, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran, and Fatima, an illegal refugee from Africa, become friends and struggle to survive in their racist, violent, and anti-immigrant neighborhood in the Bronx.
Lucy has a secret. Her mother is a hoarder and her house is stuffed with garbage. When her mother dies, Lucy is scared to call 911 because then her secret will be out, but the mess is too big to handle on her own. What can she do in order to return to a "normal” life?
All Destiny wants is "one fair day,” and an unauthorized road trip offers her and three classmates from her exclusive boarding school an opportunity to have just that.
In this true story, David wakes from surgery unable to speak. His family didn’t tell him that he had cancer and that his thyroid and half his vocal cords were removed.
Muslim Sami doesn't get along well with his father, and is very upset when his father doesn't take him on a promised trip to Toronto. When his father is arrested in the middle of the night for being a terrorist, Sami decides to find out the truth.
When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend.
