The winners are probably old news by now but, even though I’m announcing late, I still want to give recognition to the awesome winners of the 2009 Cybils awards. Below are the winners in the Young Adult categories:
Non-Fiction
The Frog Scientist
by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by Andy Comins
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Nominated by: Laurie Thompson
The Frog Scientist covers [...]
Archives for February 2010
The 2009 Cybils Winners
The Order of Odd-Fish Extravaganza/Gallery Show
James Kennedy wrote an extremely quirky, hilarious book called The Order of Odd-Fish (my review). As most quirky, hilarious things do, the book has developed quite a cult following and has inspired artists from all over to create The Order of Odd-Fish art work of all sorts. Check out the gallery here. To celebrate his [...]
Review: Lockdown
by Walter Dean Myers
Reese is in a juvie jail called the Progress Center. Busted after money woes caused him to steal prescription sheets from a local doctor’s office, he’s almost to the end of his 2.5 year sentence. Reese is overall a good kid, he’s even scored a spot in a new work release program [...]
Review: She’s So Dead to Us
by Kieran Scott
When Ally was a freshman, her father’s bad business decision cost her family their fortune, as well as the fortunes of most of her closest friends. Ally and her parents fled in shame and haven’t been back to their hometown, Orchard Hill, since. Now it is just Ally and her mother, her father’s [...]
Waiting on Wednesdy: The Reckoning
The Darkest Powers, Book 3
Kelley Armstrong
Only two weeks ago, life was all too predictable. But that was before I saw my first ghost. Now, along with my supernatural friends Tori, Derek, and Simon, I’m on the run from the Edison Group, which genetically altered us as part of their sinister experiment. [...]
Review: Give Up the Ghost
by Megan Crewe
Cass has spent much more time in the last few years in the company of ghosts than she has in the company of living beings. After a horrible encounter with her supposed best friend that left her ostracized by the entire school and then the untimely death of her older sister, Cass has [...]
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