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The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list where every title is nominated and voted on by teens. The 2012 nominations have been posted on the YALSA website so that teens across the country can read them all summer; voting will be happen over August and September, and the winners will be announced during Teen Read Week in October.

Teens and their parents can find similar titles to "Mockingjay" in the 2011 nominations for YALSA's Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (PPYA) booklist, particularly the What If… themed list, which highlights titles featuring alternative history and worlds, steampunk, apocalyptic fiction and cyberpunk, among other settings.

For ten years now, LJ's Movers & Shakers has been spotlighting librarians and others in the library field who are doing extraordinary work to serve their users and to move libraries of all types and library services forward. They hail from all corners of the library world and several nations. Nominated by their colleagues, friends, bosses, and just plain admirers, they are just the tip of the iceberg. We know there are many more Movers out there, making libraries better and taking them into the future.