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2016 Judge: Kelly Loy Gilbert
Despite being really quite opinionated, Kelly Loy Gilbert has nevertheless been a lifelong waffler when it comes to any decision ever, so Battle of the Books sounded like a solid way to trade hours of sleep for hours spent agonizing over a difficult choice. (Choices about books being, of course, the most difficult of all.) […]
2016 Judge: Tim Federle
Tim Federle grew up in Pittsburgh before moving to New York to dance on Broadway. His debut novel for kids, Better Nate Than Ever —described as “Judy Blume as seen through a Stephen Sondheim lens” by Huffington Post—was named a New York Time’s Notable Children’s Book of 2013 and a best book of the year by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, and Slate.com. […]
2016 Judge: Erin Entrada Kelly
Erin Entrada Kelly is the author of Blackbird Fly and The Land of Forgotten Girls. She wrote her first novel, “The Two Orphans,” in fourth grade. The story followed two orphan-BFFs who are adopted by separate families and forced to live apart. Eventually one of their houses burns down and they get to live together […]
2016 Judge: Jennifer Donnelly
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of three adult novels—The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose—as well as the young adult novels Revolution and A Northern Light, winner of Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award. Her most […]
2016 Judge: Melanie Crowder
There are few things judge Melanie Crowder enjoys more in this life than a well-drawn tournament bracket. While most adults leave their athletic obsessions on the verdant playing fields of their youth, Crowder has yet to relinquish her reverse chinlock on all things competitive. A beast on the [adult rec] tennis court, a public menace […]
2016 Judge: Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley writes books. He’s not proud of it but he has to make a living somehow. Not everyone gets to be a rock star or play in the NBA or be a prima ballerina. Some folks have to do the heavy lifting this society requires to keep it from falling into chaos. Still, he’s […]
2016 Judge: Cece Bell
Cece Bell is the author of the Newbery Honor Book and Eisner winner El Deafo. She is also the author of Rabbit and Robot, winner of a Geisel Honor. She lives in Virginia with her husband, author Tom Angleberger (who was a judge in last year’s Battle of the Kids’ Books).
Titles We Also Loved
We all had favorites that we were unable to include on this year’s Contender List for one reason or another. Here are three from each of us: Jonathan: You know, I had forgotten exactly what was on the list as we were discussing a couple dozen titles right down to the wire a […]
The 2016 Contenders!
THE BOYS WHO CHALLENGED HITLER by Phillip Hoose CHALLENGER DEEP by Neal Shusterman DROWNED CITY by Don Brown ECHO by Pam Muñoz Ryan GONE CRAZY IN ALABAMA by Rita Williams-Garcia GOODBYE STRANGER by Rebecca Stead THE HIRED GIRL by Laura Amy Schlitz I CRAWL THROUGH IT by A. S. King THE MARVELS by Brian Selznick […]
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