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Best-Ever Teen Novels?

NPR

NPR is taking votes for the best young adult novel ever after a month of gathering suggestions for the poll. The judges looked at qualities such as a book's themes, the age of its main characters, its reading level. But in the end, the most important test was often whether a given book is one that teens themselves have claimed -- whether they do, in fact, voluntarily read it.

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