Hot off the presses...the winner of the 2009 Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award was just revealed at the New Hampshire Library Association's annual spring conference. This year the teens again supported a NH author when they voted, Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult as their favorite read of the year.

For those of you not familiar with this award, let me share a little history. It was initiated in 2005 when a group of high school students requested they have their own state award similar to the Isinglass Award for middle school students. They wanted an award where they nominated the titles and voted on the winner, so that's what we gave them. The only role librarians have is promoting the award as well as narrowing the large amount of nominated titles to a final list of 13 to be voted on.

If you know a teen in grades 9-12 who loves to read then you'll want to make sure they've heard of this award. What better way to help them pick the next book to read than to see what their peers recommend?