Liz B. from A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy pretty much summed up my own thoughts on comments. I especially agreed with the following:
I cannot comment on blogs at work, so to the extent I do comment, it’s after work hours or a day off (or, perhaps, during lunch or a break).
You know [...]
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And the Winner is…
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart for the YA Fiction Category!
Check out all of the winners here. There are some not surprising winners — The Graveyard Book and The Hunger Games for the Middle Grade and YA Fantasy categories respectively — and some titles I can’t wait to read, like the London [...]
2009 Top Ten BBYA
This is a bit late, but I still wanted to post it. Every year YALSA releases its Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults from that year. Here is the list for 2009:
It’s Complicated: The American Teenager by Robin Bowman
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Conner
Mexican WhiteBoy by Matt de la Pena
Bog Child by Siobhan [...]
2009 Printz Winner and Honors
Today the 2009 ALA Youth Media Awards were announced including the Printz winner and honors. Since the winner and one of the honors is up for a Cybil in the Young Adult Fiction category, of which I’m a judge, I must remain mum on my feelings regarding these titles so I thought that I would [...]
Cybils Finalists Announced
Ack, I almost forgot to post about this! The finalists for each Cybils category were announce on January 1st. The finalists for the Young Adult Fiction category are:
Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
I Know it’s Over by C. K. Kelly Martin
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Sweethearts by Sara Zarr
Ten [...]
Morris Award Finalists
The Morris Award is a new award given to outstanding first-time YA authors. Official wording and award info here.
Here are the five finalists:
Curse as Dark as Gold by Elizabeth Bunce
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
Madapple by Christine Meldrum
Me, the Missing, and the Dead by Jenny Valentine
I have only read Graceling but Madapple and [...]
And the National Book Award Winner is…
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Also, check out the interview with Judy Blundell.
Teens' Top Ten
8,000 teens voted on their top ten books. Here’s the list:
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
The Sweet Far Thing by Libba [...]
And the Nominees Are…
I’m a little behind in my blogging, so many of you may already know this, but the Cybils nominees have been announced. The lists are long and full of many great books. Of course, I am most interested in the Young Adult and the Fantasy and Science Fiction (Young Adult) categories, but you can check [...]
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Top Picks of 2009
Well, I’m a bit behind but that seems to be the story of my life for the past couple of months. Better late than never, so here they are.
Below is the list of my favorite reads of 2009. Not all were new to 2009 and some won’t be out until 2010 but I read them [...]
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