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Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels

More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.

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Critics' Lists: Summer '07

Great Opening Lines to Hook Young Readers

If you're interested in getting your child or teen to keep reading during a hot, long, lazy vacation, offer them these cool summer books. Librarian Nancy Pearl's picks all have great first lines, three-dimensional characters and strong finishes.

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Summer Books 2007: Excerpts

Excerpt: 'Feed'

Imagine a world where computer chips are implanted into babies at birth and school is unnecessary, since you can Google any information you want. That's the setting for Feed by M.T. Anderson. Critic Nancy Pearl recommends this for both teen and adult discussion groups.

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Novel Ideas

M.T. Anderson: Eats Broccoli, Paces and Hums

M.T. Anderson is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, the 2006 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature and Feed, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2002.

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Books for Children, Books for Life

Long after the remote control car dies and the talking dolls stops working, children will return to the books loved adults give them. Children's librarian Maria Salvadore shares her favorites from 2005. A printable list and excerpts are featured.

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Adventures to Read All Through the Summer

Little fingers get the chance to turn the pages of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. But librarian Nancy Pearl has options not-so-Harry for parents, kids, and fans of the series.

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Summer Reading: Kids

Excerpt: 'Whales on Stilts'

A girl and her two friends are all that stands in the way of an evil plot by a devious whale-human hybrid in this title recommended by librarian Nancy Pearl on Morning Edition and also by children's librarian Maria Salvadore.

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