Thursday October 15th is the last day for you to nominate your favorite children’s and young adult books published in the last year for a Cybil Award. The book(s) you nominate should have been published sometime between October 15, 2008 and October 15, 2009. You are allowed to nominate one book in each of the following categories:
Easy Readers/Short Chapter Books
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fiction Picture Books
Graphic Novels
Middle Grade Fiction
Non-Fiction Picture Books
Non-Fiction: Middle Grade & Young Adult
Poetry
Young Adult Fiction
Click on the category title to see the list of books already nominated in that category. I’ve already used up all of my nominations, but the following are books that I think are eligible and that have NOT been nominated (last time I looked):
The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill. Middle Grade Fiction. Published in late 2008. (ISBN978-1590786376) Semicolon review here.
Family Reminders by Julie Dannenburg. (ISBN978-1580893206) Middle Grade FIction.Semicolon review here.
Escape Under the Forever Sky by Eve Yohalem. Middle Grade Fiction. (ISBN978-0811866538) Semicolon review here.
The Locked Garden by Gloria Whelan. Middle Grade FIction. (ISBN9780060790943)
Days of Little Texas by R.A. Nelson. YA FIction.(ISBN9780375855931)
The Unknowns by Benedict Carey. Middle Grade Fiction. (ISBN9780810979918)
The Brooklyn Nine: A Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gratz. YA FIction.(ISBN9780803732247)
A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson by Barbara Dana. YA Fiction. (ISBN9780060287047)
Rock ‘n Roll Soldier: A Memoir by Dean Ellis Kohler. YA nonfiction. (ISBN978-0061242557)
Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI by Ryan Smithson. YA Nonfiction. (ISBN978-0061664687)
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr by Judith St. George. Middle Grade Nonfiction. (ISBN978-0670011247)
If you’ve read any of these and want to nominate them, rush on over to the Cybils website and do so —posthaste. A book can only be considered if it’s nominated.