- Marietta High School
- Georgia Book Award & TOME IT List Nominees 2023-2024
Tome It List & Georgia Book Award 2023-2024
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Looking for some good books to read? We suggest any of the titles on these two Georgia created Booklists.
Each year the members of the Tome Society It Book Committee and the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers create book lists of popular, hot off the press titles to encourage the love of reading in our Georgia students.
Read more about the members of the Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers and the Tome Society Book Committee to learn about who they are and what they do.
If you have questions email LGary-Michel@marietta-city.k12.ga.us or JMarletta@marietta-city.k12.ga.us.
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Tome Society It Books 2023-2024 List
Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz
Any Sign of Life by Rae Carson
Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Enduring Freedom by Trent Reedy and Jawad Arash
Gallant by V.E. Schwab
Girl Forgotten by April Henry
Gold Mountain by Betty G. Yee
Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Spells for Lost Things by Jenna Evans Welch
The Deep Enders by Dave Reardon
The Last She by H.J. Nelson
The Memory Index by Julian R. Vaca
The Red Palace by June Hur
The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George
This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
Traitor by Amanda McCrina
Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe
Where I Belong by Marcia Argueta Mickelson
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Georgia Peach Teen Reader Nominees 2022-2023
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown
The Chandler Legacies by Abdi Nazemian
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Screfer
The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones
The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
Kneel by Candace Buford
Love Times Infinity by Lane Clark
My Mechanical Romance by Alexene Farol Follmuth
Right Where I Left You by Julian Winters
See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
Tonight We Rule the World by Zack Smedley
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The Benefits of Reading Books
- Exercises your brain
- "A book is like a garden carried in the pocket." — Chinese Proverb
- Provides knowledge and information
- Reduces stress, puts you in a better mood
- Books are a good topic of conversation
- Better writing skills
- Improves concentration and focus
- Great and free entertainment
- Enriches the language and vocabulary
- Develops creativity
- Books are a window to the world
- Increases your ability to empathize with others
- Introduces to the unknown fantasy world
- Good for memory
- Books pose questions to stimulate further reflection