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Coming Soon! =The Evergreen Book Awards for Young Adult Literature!= The Evergreen Book Award is a local, Washington State book award. A group of teachers and librarians nominate the top ten young adult books of the previous year, and then middle and high school students across the state vote on the winner. You must have read some of the books to vote. Ballots will be available in March. Multiple copies of all of these books are available in our Hamilton library!


 * __How to participate:__**

1. Read a minimum of two books on the list below

2. As you finish each book, talk to your librarian :) and enter the drawing to win gift certificates to local booksores to use now or at this year's bookfair!

3. Fill out a voting ballot in March.

**__2012 Evergreen Book Award Nominations:__**

 * __Swim the Fly__ by Don Calame**
 * __The Maze Runner__ by James Dashner**
 * __We were Here__ by Mat De La Pena**
 * __If I Stay__ by Gale Forman**
 * __Beautiful Creatures__ by Kami Garcia**
 * __North of Beautiful__ by Justina Chen Headley**
 * __The Forest of Hands and Teeth__ by Carrie Ryan**
 * __Shiver__ by Maggie Stiefvater**
 * __Leviathan__ by Scott Westerfeld**
 * __Malice__ by Chris Wooding**

Check out the EVERGREEN BOOK AWARDS page (at the left) to learn more about these titles!