The winner in the Middle School category is Walking on Glass by Alma Fullerton

 and the runner up  is Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls.

The winner in the High School category is The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

and the runner up  is Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles.

Since 1989, each year the Young Adult Reading Program (YARP) Teen Reads Committee of the South Dakota Library Association publishes a list of books to promote quality literature and to help South Dakota teachers and librarians in selecting and promoting books for adolescents. The books are selected from among the many young adult and adult books that have received positive reviews by national reviewing periodicals.  To qualify to vote, teens read books from the list and give it a star rating of 1 to 4, 4 being best. The book receiving the most stars on each list receives the award. Teenagers may vote for as many books as they would like on a scale basis. One winner is selected from the Middle School List and another winner from the High School list.

For more information, please visit the YARP/SD Teen Reads website at http://library.sd.gov/LIB/YAS/yarp/index.aspx.