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
Derby Girl and the Inactives List
In my last post I linked the movie trailer for the upcoming flick Whip It and confessed my new love of roller derby. First I should probably give you a bit of background on my roller derby love. Up until about a month ago I had only a vague idea of what exactly roller derby [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
National Book Award Finalists
The National Book Award finalists have been announced. The young adult nominees are:
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
I haven’t read any of these (three have yet to be released) though [...]
RITA Awards
I just found out that Silent in the Grave won a RITA Award for Best Book with Strong Romantic Elements. Also, a favorite teen fantasy book of mine, Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr, won Best Young Adult Romance. Check out these titles, all the winners, and the runner’s up on the RITA Awards page.
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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 [...]
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