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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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Cerebellumberjack
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Anansi Boys all the way.
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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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