I’m on the nominating panel for the Cybil Award for Middle Grade Fiction. The Cybil Awards are blogger-nominated and blogger-chosen awards for children’s and young adult literature. This year is the second year for the Cybil Awards (2006 winners), and we’ve had a lot of books nominated in seven categories: Picture Books; Non-fiction Picture Books; Middle Grade fiction; Poetry; Young Adult fiction; Non-fiction (YA/MG); and Graphic Novels.
Anyone with an e-mail address may nominate one book per category. Then groups of bloggers get to work. First, a nominating committee reads ALL the titles in a given category. After nearly two arduous months, this committee winnows the nominees to five finalists. A second committee of bloggers considers the shortlist and, after much debate, chooses the best of the best for 2007. The nominations close on November 21. So if your favorite middle grade fiction book, published in 2007, is on this list go over to the Cybils blog and nominate it. Or if you have a another favorite 2007 book, check to see if it’s been nominated.
Here’s my list of books that are nominated so far for the Cybil Award for Middle Grade Fiction. And the books in the list below are eligible and have not been nominated, as far as I can tell:
The Story of Jonas by Maurine Dahlberg. Semicolon review here.
Do Not Pass Go by Kirkpatrick Hill. Semicolon review here.
The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. Semicolon review here.
Spelldown by Karen Luddy. Semicolon review here.
The Theft and the Miracle by Rebecca Wade. Semicolon review here.
Ellie McDoodle: Have Pen, Will Travel by Ruth McNally Barshaw. NOMINATED.
Hunted by Christopher Russell. I read this book, published in the U.S. in 2007, and so eligible for the Cybil Award, a couple of months ago. I forgot to review it here, and now I don’t remember enough details to do so. I thought it was good historical (medieval) fiction, and I enjoyed reading it.
The Dog Who Thought He Was Santa by Bill Wallace. I haven’t read this one, but I saw it at the library and thought it looked like fun.
LawnBoy by Gary Paulsen.
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It by Sundee Frazier
Summer Ball by Mike Lupica.
Toby Wheeler, Eighth Grade Benchwarmer by Thatcher Heldring.
Edward’s Eyes by Patricia Maclachlan.
First Light by Rebecca Stead.
The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick.
Leap of Faith by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
Hi,
I had nominated Gary Schmidt’s The Wednesday Wars over on the Cybil site but didn’t see it in your compilation list…
I think we’re waffling about whether Wednesday Wars is Middle Grade or YA. It will be considered somewhere.
Spelldown was cute. I think it should be read after Runaround and before A Crooked Kind of Perfect. 🙂
I think Ellie McDoodle was bouncing between GN and MG, but I have the feeling it will end up in MG. Yay!
I have been stalking, er, checking the listings for The Mother-Daughter Book Club since it came out – even before, actually, because I really liked the concept/summary – and now it’s FINALLY available at my library! Request in…
Ooo. Thanks for linking past reviews. I recently saw “The Lacemaker and the Princess” in a bookstore and thought it looked intriguing. I missed your earlier review but just read through it now and it sounds fascinating. I’ll keep my eye out for it again and snatch it up when I come across it! Thanks.
I’m on the GN committee, so I can confirm that Ellie McDoodle is being sent back to MG.
Thanks for posting about this! I spent some pleasant time over there at the Cybils blog browsing around. But everything I would have nominated was already mentioned.
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