The Young Reader’s Choice Awards are here!
If you don’t know what they are, it’s a choice award where only children, teachers, parents and librarians get to vote for their favorite books. Basically, the nominees are divided into three divisions, (junior, intermediate and senior). If you read two books or more in each division, you get to vote for your favorite! Since they only recently announced the 2008 nominees and voting starts in late March to early April, you have lots of time to read the books.
For your information, last year's winners were Junior: Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funk, Intermediate: The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (sucks) and Senior: Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.
(Sorry, you have to be in grade 4 to 12 and you have to live in the Pacific Northwest to vote. That means Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington only.)
The nominees for 2008 are…
Junior Division
The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy –
Francess Lin Lantz
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray – Ann M Martin
Double Identity – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Listening for Lions – Gloria Whelan
Princess Academy – Shannon Hale
The Scarecrow and His Servant –
Philip Pullman
Shakespeare’s Secret – Elise Broach
Whales On Stilts! –
M. T. Anderson
Middle Division
Code Orange –
Caroline B Cooney
Flush – Carl Hiaasen
Alice Macleod, Realist at Last – Susan Juby
Eldest –
Christopher Paolini
Criss Cross –
Lynne Rae Perkins
The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince –
J. K. Rowling
Uglies –
Scott Westerfeld
Senior Division
Anansi Boys –
Neil Gaiman
Dark Sons –
Nikki Grimes
Midshipwizard Halcyon-Blithe – James M Ward
Peaches –
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Looking for Alaska –
John Green
Shackleton’s Stowaway – Victoria McKernan
Discuss.
(I read Uglies last night (8.5/10) and now I’m psyched for all the other books. Except for Eldest and Harry Potter, which are the most overrated books of all time.)
If you don’t know what they are, it’s a choice award where only children, teachers, parents and librarians get to vote for their favorite books. Basically, the nominees are divided into three divisions, (junior, intermediate and senior). If you read two books or more in each division, you get to vote for your favorite! Since they only recently announced the 2008 nominees and voting starts in late March to early April, you have lots of time to read the books.
For your information, last year's winners were Junior: Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funk, Intermediate: The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer (sucks) and Senior: Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett.
(Sorry, you have to be in grade 4 to 12 and you have to live in the Pacific Northwest to vote. That means Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington only.)
The nominees for 2008 are…
Junior Division
The Day Joanie Frankenhauser Became a Boy –
Francess Lin Lantz
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray – Ann M Martin
Double Identity – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Listening for Lions – Gloria Whelan
Princess Academy – Shannon Hale
The Scarecrow and His Servant –
Philip Pullman
Shakespeare’s Secret – Elise Broach
Whales On Stilts! –
M. T. Anderson
Middle Division
Code Orange –
Caroline B Cooney
Flush – Carl Hiaasen
Alice Macleod, Realist at Last – Susan Juby
Eldest –
Christopher Paolini
Criss Cross –
Lynne Rae Perkins
The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince –
J. K. Rowling
Uglies –
Scott Westerfeld
Senior Division
Anansi Boys –
Neil Gaiman
Dark Sons –
Nikki Grimes
Midshipwizard Halcyon-Blithe – James M Ward
Peaches –
Jodi Lynn Anderson
Looking for Alaska –
John Green
Shackleton’s Stowaway – Victoria McKernan
Discuss.
(I read Uglies last night (8.5/10) and now I’m psyched for all the other books. Except for Eldest and Harry Potter, which are the most overrated books of all time.)
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