And the Winner of This Year’s “What YA Novel Should I Read” Contest Is . . .

If you will recall I offered a challenge to my readers.  I would select six of the most discussed YA titles of the year and you, dear readers, would tell me which one to read.  The books were:

At the outset I thought that Impossible would be getting a lot of loving, but to my surprise it was Graceling that took an early lead.  Paper Towns jogged merrily behind, but it seemed from the start that we had a winner in Cashore’s novel.  Then all of a sudden Frankie Landau-Banks crops up and everything changes!  Graceling‘s win was no longer assured.  The numbers began to even out.  Tender Morsels made a brief lunge forward but was forgotten once more.  Living Dead Girl got a write-in vote, but didn’t budge after that.  And Little Brother?  No one was willing to wholly commit to recommending it as the number one YA read.  If they did they mentioned another book alongside it (so I didn’t count either vote).

No sir, it was Frankie and Graceling to the bitter end.

By the final tally one was ahead.  But I had to take into account an emailed vote I’d received a week before.  And that, my friends, finished the job.  Here are the scores as I got them:

Impossible: 3
Graceling: 8
Paper Towns: 6
What I Saw: 3
Frankie: 8
Tender Morsels: 4
Living Dead Girl: 1

Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together for the first TIE I’ve had in these votes.  Instead of reading just one YA novel this year I will be reading:

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