Vote today for your favourite Top 10 title in the 2023 Teen Readers Choice Award

 

Voting has begun for the top TRCA title for 2023.  

Voting runs from May 23 to may 30th.  

Be sure to have your say in the top TRCA title for 2023!

TRCA 2023 Top 10 Title: I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

 

Amidst the tyrannical dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in a country governed by isolation and fear, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe. (Goodreads)

TRCA 2023 Top 10 Title - The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

 What will happen to Stone in the Glen - once a quaint little town now run by a corrupt mayor who claims to be able to stop dragons?  The town has been falling apart since the library burnt down.  The people of the town have become distant from each other and keep to themselves. When one of the orphans from the Orphan House runs away and is taken in by the nice Ogress who lives next to the town, a local man mistakenly thinks the Ogress has abducted the child starting a whole sequence of events as the once idyllic town crumbles - will truth prevail in this fantastical story of once upon a time?  Pick up  a copy of The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill from the NNEC library today!

TRCA 2023 Top 10 Title The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag

Fun fact The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag is based on the setting of on an island in Nova Scotia! 

This beautifully illustrated graphic novel is worth checking out - first love, LGTBQ+ and learning to be true to yourself make this a great coming of age story. 

Stop by and pick up a copy of The Girl from the Sea from the NNEC library today.

TRCA 2023 Top 10 Title: Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

 

Popular YA author Nicola Yoon has done it again! Have you read Everything, Everything or maybe The Sun is Also a Star? Then you will be sure to enjoy Yoon's latest page turning romance - Instructions for Dancing. Pick up a copy at the NNEC library today - Read One, Read Some, or Read them all and have your say in this years' TRCA!

TRCA 2023 Top 10 Title - Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist For Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes and Dawud Anyabwile

 After winning Olympic Gold in the 200 Meter Sprint in 1968, Tommie Smith took a stand against racial injustice by raising his black gloved fist on the podium during the American national anthem - but at what cost?  

Pick up a copy of the Graphic Novel Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barns and Anyabwile at the NNEC library today and be inspired by Tommie's story.