What are the hottest books for teens? Check out these winners, voted on by seventh and eighth grade students from Freedom Middle School during Cafe Book this year! After reading from a selection of 20 books, they chose their Top Picks and Other Favorites.

Top Picks:

Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.

Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans
Michael Vey seems like an ordinary teenager, but he has a unique power. After his mother is kidnapped he and his friends have to find his mother and fight the hunters to save other kids with the same powers. 

Apothecary by Maile Meloy

Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war. 

Other Favorites:

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Outlaw by Stephen Davies

Sweet Venom by Tera Lynn Childs

Starters by Lissa Price