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This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found around the web responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will either add it here or put in our next Peanut Gallery post. The PFTSTA students have spoken! [...]
Round 3, Match 2: P.S. Be Eleven vs The Thing About Luck
JUDGE – ROBIN LAFEVERS P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia Amistad/HarperCollins The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books for Young Readers I was so excited to be invited to be a judge in School Library Journal’s Battle of the Books! If there is one thing I know how to do, it is [...]
Round 3, Match 1: Boxers and Saints vs Far Far Away
JUDGE – PATRICK NESS Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang FirstSecond/Macmillan Far Far Away by Tom McNeal Knopf/Random House What should we demand of YA literature? Is that even an answerable question? YA has grown into such a gorgeous, vast country that to narrow it down seems impossible, and probably undesirable. It has any genre you’d like, [...]
Round 2, Match 4: The Thing About Luck vs The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
JUDGE – KATHERINE MARSH The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books for Young Readers The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt Atheneum Books for Young Readers Sugar and wheat: two staples of the American diet; two unlikely subjects for children’s books. And yet sugar and wheat, or sugar versus [...]
Round 2, Match 3: Hokey Pokey vs P.S. Be Eleven
JUDGE – JOSEPH BRUCHAC Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli Knopf Books for Young Readers P.S. Be Eleven by Rita Williams-Garcia Amistad/HarperCollins One of the joys of reading a well-written book is that you can be transported by it to a reality that is other than your own. You find yourself totally immersed in another place, [...]
Round 2, Match 2: Eleanor & Park vs Far Far Away
"Two books. Both darn near perfect. I highly recommend either one. And yet, I must choose," writes judge Rae Carson.
This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found around the web responding to the latest BOB news. Be sure to let us know in the comments if we’ve missed yours and we will either add it here or put in our next Peanut Gallery post. Reads for Keeps explores the [...]
Round 2, Match 1: The Animal Book vs Boxers and Saints
JUDGE – TONYA BOLDEN The Animal Book by Steve Jenkins Houghton Mifflin Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang FirstSecond/Macmillan Ah . . . the joys of reading!—especially when the reading includes Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints and Steven Jenkins’s The Animal World: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest—and Most Surprising—Animals [...]
Round 1, Match 8: True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp vs What The Heart Knows
JUDGE - SHEILA TURNAGE True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathy Appelt Atheneum Books for Young Readers What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Comparing Joyce Sidman’s What the Heart Knows – Chants, Charms & Blessings to The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt is [...]
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