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 [...]
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The 2009 Cybils Winners
National Book Award Finalists, 2009
The finalists have been announced. Here’s the list of finalists for Young People’s Literature:
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
Stitches by David Small
Lips Touch: Three Times by Laini Taylor
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia
I’m a bit surprised. At least last year there were a few that [...]
Cybils 2009: Have you voted yet?
We’re over half way through the voting window. Have you nominated your favorite book from October 08-October 09? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?! You only have until October 15. It’s easy. Click here, fill out the form, and voila.
As I mentioned, I am a judge on the graphic novel panel this year [...]
Cybils 2009: Get Ready to Vote!
It’s that time of year! That’s right, the Cybils awards are are kicking into high gear. I’m happy to announce that I am going to be a final round judge for the graphic novels category this year. I’m excited to get started and I’m hoping for a good group of GNs to choose from. A [...]
Booktrailer: Going Bovine
Um, I’m not sure there are words for this but if there is one it’s HILARIOUS.
Fast Tube by Casper
Booktrailer: Give Up the Ghost
I’m definitely a sucker for ghost stories and this one looks promising. Check out the booktrailer, crafted by the author herself.
Fast Tube by Casper
Modern/Current Classic Teen Lit
I’m part of a group of people, mostly teen librarians, who get together and talk teen books. I love it! Our library system is made up of a bazillion branches so each branch only has one teen librarian (if it has one at all — in the smallest branches the manager seconds as the teen [...]
One Year Blogiversary
Saturday was my one year blogiversary for Bookworm 4 Life. Yeah!
One of the reasons the blog has been pretty quiet lately is because I have been working on moving my blog to self-hosting. I’m still tinkering so I hope you’ll excuse the mess as I figure out templates, move all my widgets over, etc. I [...]
Top Picks of 2008
So, I’m a bit behind on this seeing how it is now 4 days into the new year, but here are my top reads in 2008. Not all were new to 2008, in fact one is a 1983 Newbery honor book, but this year was the first time I read them and they made an [...]
Splurge
Thanks to some very generous relatives who gave me bookstore gift certificates for Christmas (Thank you! Thank you!), I just indulged myself in some book buying, something I rarely do since I am in love with the library (and not rich enough to buy all the books I want). I just bought Wondrous Strange by [...]
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