Isinglass Teen Read
The Isinglass Teen Read book award was begun in Barrington, NH in 2001 as collaboration between the public library and the middle school library. In 2005 the award became a state-wide reading experience. Each year 7th and 8th grade students are asked for suggestions of books they feel are great. The ITR committee members read the suggested books and select the top twenty books which then form next years list. Each April students in grades 7 and 8 vote for their favorite book from the current year's list.
The winner is announced in May.
2023 WINNER:
Punching the Air, by Ibi Zoboi and
Yusef Salaam
PREVIOUS WINNERS:
2022: Cinderella is Dead, by Kalynn Bayron
2021: A Curse So Dark and Lonely, by Brigid Kemmerer
2020: Refugee, by Alan Gratz
2019: The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
2018: Ghosts, by Raina Telgemeier
2017 Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
2016: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Bradley
2015: Prisoner-B3087 by Alan Gratz
2014: In a Heartbeat, by Loretta Ellsworth
2013: Divergent, by Veronica Roth
2012: I Am Number Four, by Pittacus Lore
2011: The Maze Runner, by James Dashner
2010: Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
2009: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick
2008: Perfect, by Natasha Friend
2007: Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
2006: One of those hideous books where the mother dies, by Sonya Sones
2005: Eragon, by Christopher Paolini
2004: Cut, by Pat McCormick
2003: Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
2002: The Last Book in the Universe, by Rodman Philbrick