The results are in! 435 student votes were cast and the winner is The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Girl from the Sea is a fantasy-based graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.

The full list of nominees, ordered by number of votes received, is:

The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (80)
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (60)
In The Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (50)
Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus (49)
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (38)
Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon (38)
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz (38)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir(32)
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (25)
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, et al. (25)

Thirty staff also cast a vote for their favourite, with I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys emerging as the winner. I Must Betray You is a startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation.

Ruta Sepetys is an internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of numerous works of historical fiction. Sepetys is considered a “crossover” novelist as her books are read by both students and adults worldwide.

The full list of nominees, ordered by number of votes received, is:

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (8)
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (7)
In The Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (7)
Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon (2)
Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus (2)
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir (1)
The Girl from the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag (1)
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill (1)
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, et al. (1)
Two Degrees by Alan Gratz (0)