The Crossover The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Kwame Alexander by Brian Selznick Out of My Mind Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living by Sharon Draper Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a the court as their father ignores his declining train station in 1931, meets a mysterious brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral health. toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life palsy discovers a technological device that will and his biggest secret are jeopardized. allow her to speak for the first time. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Lightning Thief The Outsiders Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer by Rick Riordan by S. E. Hinton patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until After learning that he is the of a mortal The struggle of three brothers to stay together a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, after their parent's death and their quest for group forces her to reexamine her perspective on twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp identity among the conflicting values of their love, loss, and life. for demigods like himself, and joins his new world. friends on a quest to prevent a war between the Evil Spy School gods. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Stuart Gibbs by Mildred D. Taylor After getting expelled from spy school for The Maze Runner An African-American family living in the South accidentally shooting a live mortar into the by James Dashner during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and principal's office, thirteen-year-old Ben finds Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no discrimination which its children don't himself recruited by evil crime organization memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he understand. SPYDER. must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. So B. It Fever 1793 by Sarah Weeks by Laurie Halse Anderson Memory of Things After spending her life with her mentally Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from by Gae Polisner disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, her sick mother, learns about perseverance and The powerful story of two teenagers finding twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the friendship, comfort, and first love in the days Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in following 9/11 as their fractured city tries to put Philadelphia in 1793. itself back together. Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements The Giver Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds by by Ransom Riggs himself invisible, he and his parents and his new Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a blind friend Alicia try to find out of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an what caused his condition and memories shared by only one other in his abandoned orphanage, and, after some how to reverse it. community and discovers the terrible truth about investigating, he learns the children who lived the society in which he lives. there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.

Timetable of Events

November 2016 - April 2017 ● READ! READ!! READ!!! The 3 Apples Book Award has been ​ ● Visit your local public or school library developed to encourage the joy of between November 2016 and April 2017 reading for pleasure, and to give the to borrow the books on the list children of New York State the 2017 ● Each teen must read or listen to a minimum of three books from the list of opportunity to participate in honoring 15 finalists in order to vote in April. their favorite books. 3 Apples Book Award April 2017 It is co-sponsored by the Youth Services ● Voting will take place in public and school libraries throughout New York and School Library Sections of the New Finalists for the State. York Library Association, which together ● Ballots will be made available at school represent the public and school libraries Teen’s Choice Award and public libraries, and can be printed of the state. ​ from the 3 Apples Book Award website. ● Only teens in grades 7-12 (ages 13+) Each year teens in grades 7-12 (ages who have read or listened to at least 3 of ​ 13+) nominate their favorite book, the nominated titles are eligible to vote. ​ creating a statewide ballot of fifteen of ● Each eligible teen has one vote, cast at either their school or public library. the most popular titles. After reading at ● Librarians will tally the votes from their least three of the finalist books, the library and submit them online by April children vote to select one as their th 30 .​ ​ favorite. That book and its author are

honored with the presentation of the 3 May 2017 ● The award winner will be announced on Apples Book Award, and celebrations the website on May 10th. take place across the state in school and ● Libraries across the state will sponsor public libraries. events to celebrate the winner of the 3 Co-sponsored by the Apples Book Award. Youth Services Section and Section of

June – August 2017 School Libraries of the New York ● Libraries will promote the award during their summer reading programs and Library Association. encourage teens to read in preparation for nominations in September. www.nyla.org/3apples/