The PengTeen Awards!

Penguin Books Australia has announced a new annual award for all their YA books released over the year, The PengTeen Awards. Currently, readers can nominate their choices over at the Penguin Between The Lines blog where a new category is posted each day.

The categories are:

Favourite Villain
Favourite Girl Character
Favourite Boy Character
Favourite Kiss
Favourite Fight
Favourite Couple
Favourite Sidekick
Favourite Scary Moment
Favourite Funny Moment
Favourite Breakthrough Author
Favourite Cover
Favourite Author
Favourite Aussie Author
Favourite Breakthrough Book
Favourite Book

The Penguin titles eligible for nomination are:

Last Sacrifice: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Matched by Ally Condie
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
Prom and Prejudice by Elizabeth Eulberg
Twelfth Grade Kills: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Defiance: Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando
Bite Club: Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine
The Comet Box by Adrian Stirling
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han
Undercurrent: A Siren Novel by Tricia Rayburn
Fairy Bad Day by Amanda Ashby
Alaska by Sue Saliba
Days Like These by Alison Stewart
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
The Power of Six: The Lorien Legacies by Pittacus Lore
The Fear: The Enemy by Charlie Higson
Beautiful Days by Anna Godbersen
Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Froi of the Exiles: The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
The Sending: The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody
Last Breath: Morganville Vampires by Rachel Caine
Crossed by Ally Condie
Reckoning: Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow
Beautiful Chaos: Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Audition by Stasia Ward Kehoe

There will also be a Reader’s Choice Award which means you can vote for any book by any publisher that was released between 1 December 2010 to 28 November 2011.

For more information you can visit The PengTeen Awards: How It Works over at the BTL blog.

Happy voting!