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Narragansett High School Library: 2026 RI Teen Book Award Nominees

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Rate Your RITBA Read 2026!

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Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

RATE YOUR READ 2026!

Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

RATE YOUR READ 2026!

Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

RATE YOUR READ 2026!

Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

RATE YOUR READ 2026!

Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

RATE YOUR READ 2026!

Finished reading a RITBA nominee?  NOW, Rate Your Read!

2025 RI Teen Book Award Winner and Honor Books!

2025 RI Teen Book Award WINNER--Promise Boys by Nick Brooks

J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.

2025 RI Teen Book Award HONOR Book--Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. 

2025 RI Teen Book Award HONOR Book--Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Erin Faith Hicks

Angry hockey player Alix thinks that calm, cool, Ezra can help her learn to control her temper. But as they hang out and start to get closer, she learns there is more to him than the cool front he puts on.

2026 Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominees!

Becoming a Queen / Dan Clay

Bright Red Fruit / Safia Elhillo

Call Me Iggy / Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado

The Color of a Lie / Kim Johnson

A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants

Everything We Never Had / Randy Ribay

Full Shift / Jen Dugan and Kit Seaton

Gather / Kenneth M. Cadow

The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky / Josh Galarza

Greymist Fair / Francesca Zappia

Homebody / Theo Parish

Icarus / K. Ancrum

The Invocations / Krystal Sutherland

I Shall Never Fall in Love / Hari Conner

Looking for Smoke / K.A. Cobell

The Maid and the Crocodile / Jordan Ifueko

Shadowed / Carl Deuker

Six Truths and a Lie / Ream Shukairy

Twenty-four Seconds from Now / Jason Reynolds

The Wilderness of Girls / Madeline Claire Franklin