See the 10 nominated titles for WA state student choice award. Ballots due by March 15, 2012

2. Beautiful Creatures by Kami
Garcia and Margie Peterson.
In a small South Carolina
town, where it seems little
has changed since the Civil
War, sixteen-year-old Ethan
is powerfully drawn to
Lena, a new classmate with
whom he shares a psychic
connection and whose
family hides a dark secret
that may be revealed on
her sixteenth birthday.

3. Swim the Fly by Don Calame
Swim team members and
best friends Matt, Sean,
and Coop, set themselves
the summertime goal of
seeing a live girl naked, and
while the chances of that
happening seem very dim,
Matt's personal goal to
swim the one-hundred-
yard butterfly to impress
the new girl on the team
seems even less likely to
happen.

4. Forests of Hands and
Teeth by Carrie Ryan
Through twists and turns
of fate, orphaned Mary
seeks knowledge of life,
love, and especially what
lies beyond her walled
village and the
surrounding forest, where
dwell the Unconsecrated,
aggressive flesh-eating
people who were once
dead.

5. If I Stay: a Novel
by Gayle Forman
While in a coma following
an automobile accident
that killed her parents and
younger brother,
seventeen-year-old Mia, a
gifted cellist, weights
whether to live with her
grief or join her family in
death.

6. Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
In an alternate 1914 Europe,
fifteen-year-old Austrian
Prince Alek, on the run from
the Clanker Powers who are
attempting to take over the
globe using mechanical
machinery, forms an uneasy
alliance with Deryn who,
disguised as a boy to join
the British Air Service, is
learning to fly genetically-
engineered beasts.

7. Maze Runner
by James Dashner
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.

8. North of Beautiful
by Justina Chen Headley
Terra, a sensitive, artistic
high school senior born
with a facial port-wine
stain, struggles with issues
of inner and outer beauty
with the help of her Goth
classmate Jacob.

9. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
In all the years she has
watched the wolves in the
woods behind her house,
Grace has been particularly
drawn to an unusual
yellow-eyed wolf, unaware
he turns into a human for a
short time each year, but
when the two find one
another in human form,
they vow to do whatever it
takes to stay together.

10. We Were Here
by Matt de la Pena
After a judge sentences
Miguel to spend a year in a
group home and write in a
journal, he makes plans to
escape the youth detention
center and go to
Mexico, where he can put
his past behind him.

11. Malice
by Chris Wooding
Luke, Seth and Kady, three
middle school boys, are
trapped in the deadly
world of a comic book.

13. The Evergreen Award is selected by
Washington state students in
grades 7-12. This award has been
around for more than 30 years.
To participate, read two or more of
the nominated titles, then pick up a
ballot from the library and vote for
your favorite.