The People Have Spoken! Congratulations Simone Elkeles!

And they love Simone Elkeles! The ALA announced the winners of the Teen Top Ten voting. They are:

1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2. Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
3. How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by Simone Elkeles
4. Maximum Ride: School’s Out – Forever by James Patterson
5. Firegirl by Tony Abbott
6. All Hallows Eve (13 Stories)by Vivian Vande Velde
7. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
8. River Secrets by Shannon Hale
9. Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
10. Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks

Congratulations to Simone Elkeles and thank you to the ALA for creating on such a fabulous program!

Note: Interesting bit of symmetry in how I heard about this. I checked my email while I was eating breakfast this morning at 6:00 and I got a blog comment alert email:

By: Laurie Stolarz
Email: ********
Comments:

Congratulations to Simone and to Flux - I just saw the top ten list!!!

Laurie's Blue is for Nightmares was the first teen book I ever worked on (and only a little bit) and I believe she was also the first from Llewellyn to get nominated for Teen Top Ten. So, it's rather appropriate that she was the bearer of good news.