Start the year off by stopping by the library and checking out one of the 2011-2012 Iowa book award books. Iowa High School Book award titles include:
- After
- Assist: Hoops, Hopes, and the Game of Their Lives
- Flash Burnout
- Forest of Hands and Teeth
- Iron Heart: The True Story of How I Came Back from the Dead
- Knife of Never Letting Go
- Liar
- Paper Towns
- Shift
- Shiver
- Streams of Babel
- Thirteen Reasons Why
Iowa Teen Award Books include:
- Anything But Typical
- All the Broken Pieces
- Along for the Ride
- Beastly
- Operation Yes
- The Last Thing I Remember
- Pop
- Batboy
- Boost
- Purple Heart
- Sunrise Over Fallujah
- Woods Runner
- Red Glass
- Unwind
- After Ever After