Presentation of the books and voting happens in classrooms, school libraries and public libraries. The California Young Reader Medal is a program that was started in 1974 that allows the young people of California to read, nominate and vote on their favorite books in a given year. But, The Unwanteds won the California Young Reader Medal medal for best intermediate novel and many kids in my library were intrigued by the book because of this. I was burned out on dystopian settings and wary of any book that is compared to Harry Potter. The Unwanteds, the first book in Lisa McMann's Unwanteds series came out in 2011 and the blurb on the cover, " The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter," didn't grab me, despite the fact that I read and admire both series.
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