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