Cybils nominations are closed ... they'll post an official list on Monday, but I went ahead and scoured the comment pages for personal favorites. My hopes for the 2008 Cybils are:Middle Grade Fiction
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, by Jeanne Birdsall
Cosmic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Masterpiece, by Elise Broach
Young Adult Fiction
Trouble, by Gary Schmidt
Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Well Witched, by Frances Hardinge (which I read last year as Verdigris Deep)
The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary Pearson
Noel's Runners-Up:
Impossible, by Nancy Werlin
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Sweethearts, by Sara Zarr
2 comments:
I agree with your first YA choice, and I really want to read your second.
Your fantasy picks I will withhold commentary on, seeing as I'm a judge... ;)
Oh, come on, you know I'm right. ;)
*sigh* and now it will be forever before you have a chance to pick up Jellicoe. Ah, well...
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