The Young Adult Fiction committee for the 2006 Cybils Awards has been hard at work weeding through the many nominations, reading books, and, when they can spare the time, writing reviews. These are the brave committee members who will be first whittling this list down the FIVE (the nominating committee's job) and then selecting a winner (the judging committee's job). Many thanks for all of their work so far, and all of their work to come! Links to their recent reviews of nominated titles are below.
Nominating Committee:
- Jackie (interactivereader)
- Little Willow (Bildungsroman)
- Mindy (propernoun.net)
- Sara (Sara's Hold Shelf)
- TadMack (Finding Wonderland and Readers' Rants)
Judging Committee:
- Leila (bookshelves of doom)
- Liz (A Chair, A Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy)
- Nancy (Journey Woman)
- Patty (It's All About the Book)
- Tasha (Kids Lit)
Here are links to reviews of YA nominated books written by Cybils YA committee members since the start of the awards process. This is NOT the complete list of nominations (and probably not the complete list of their reviews, though I tried). I'll be posting a full list of all of the nominated titles after nominations close on Monday. Currently the list is at 70 titles.
- Abundance of Katherines, An by John Green. Dutton Juvenile. Reviews by Sara and Jackie
- Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson. Henry Holt. Review by TadMack
- Adios to My Old Life
by Caridad Ferrer. MTV Press. Review by TadMack
- Angel's Choice by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. Simon Pulse. Reviews by TadMack and Sara
- Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett. Candlewick. Review by Mindy
- Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol. 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson. Candlewick. Review by Jackie
- Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl, A by Tanya Lee Stone. Wendy Lamb Books. Reviews by Mindy and Jackie
- Boy Book, The: A Study of Habits and Behaviors, Plus Techniques for Taming Them by E. Lockhart. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. Review by TadMack
- Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life, A by Dana Reinhardt. Wendy Lamb Books. Reviews by Little Willow and Mindy
- Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock. Houghton Mifflin. Reviews by Tasha, Jackie and Sara
- Dirty Liar by Brian James. Push (Scholastic). Review by TadMack
- Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman. Putnam Juvenile. Review by TadMack
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson. Delacorte Books for Young Readers. Reviews by TadMack, Leila, Mindy, and Jen
- How It's Done by Christine Kole MacLean. Flux. Reviews by Little Willow and Leila
- I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. Hyperion. Reviews by TadMack, Jackie and Sara
- Incantation by Alice Hoffman. Little, Brown Young Readers. Reviews by TadMack, Sara and Tasha
- It's Kind of a Funny Story: A Novel by Ned Vizzini. Miramax. Review by Tasha
- Just In Case by Meg Rosoff. Wendy Lamb Books. Reviews by TadMack and Jackie
- Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie, The by Jaclyn Moriarty. Arthur A. Levine Books. Reviews by Mindy and Jackie
- Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. Knopf. Review by Sara
- Notes From The Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick. Scholastic. Review by TadMack
- Nothing But the Truth (and a Few White Lies) by Justina Chen Headley. Little, Brown Young Readers. Review by Mindy and Jackie
- Pursuit of Happiness, The by Tara Altebrando. MTV Press. Review by TadMack
- Rules of Survival, The by Nancy Werlin. Dial. Reviews by Tasha and Jackie
- Skin
by Adrienne Maria Vrettos. Margaret K. McElderry. Review by Tasha
- Sold
by Patricia McCormick. Hyperion. Review by TadMack
- Stay With Me
by Garret Freymann-Weyr. Houghton Mifflin. Review by TadMack
- Unresolved, The by T. K. Welsh. Review by Patty
Happy reading
