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Old 11-5-2007, 09:14 PM   #1
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The Young Reader’s Choice Awards are here!
http://www.pnla.org/yrca/

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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Old 11-6-2007, 02:49 PM   #2
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Anansi Boys all the way.
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Old 11-7-2007, 09:12 PM   #3
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I started reading the first couple chapters of Midshipwizard Halcyon-Blithe yesterday, but I didn't find the writing to be as engaging as I'd hoped. I thought the dialogue was a little choppy and some characters were too predictable right from the beginning. "Show, don't tell" could be put to good use in this book.
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