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How Many YMA Honorees are on this Year’s List of Contenders?
We can’t spill secrets, but here are three hints: We haven’t changed our rule about picture books. Multiple YMA honors for the same contender happened. YMA love shows up among our graphic novel contenders. Now, over to you. Based on this, anyone want to speculate about what is going to show up next Wednesday?
The Closing Match: El Deafo vs The Port Chicago 50 vs We Were Liars
THE CLOSER – CLAIRE VANDERPOOL El Deafo by Cece Bell Harry Abrams The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin Roaring Brook/Macmillan We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Delacorte/Random House I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly eclectic reader so I wasn’t particularly intimidated by the diversity in the three titles I received for this [...]
The Winner of the 2015 Undead Poll
It was amazing watching this year’s Undead Polling. Every contender had their champions which makes us happy. And then, throughout the voting period, three were neck and neck — Brown Girl Dreaming, El Deafo, and We Were Liars. Following close after them were The Crossover and The Family Romanov, with all the other titles earning a healthy numbers of votes. By the [...]
This Week’s Peanut Gallery
These Peanut Gallery posts are where we put up whatever we’ve found responding to the latest BOB news. Around the web: All Mark Tuchman’s awesome graphics in one place here. Brandy’s thoughts on Round Two. Karen MacPherson does a terrific Battle post. On Twitter: Reads for Keeps Joey Pigza with his bunny-suited baby brother gets [...]
Fantasy BoB 2015 and the Undead Guessing Game
On this spring Saturday, we bring you two final Sideline Activities, a Farewell, and a couple of Forecasts: Sideline Activities: 1. As in the Fantasy Sport Games, our young commentators have conjured up their own dream teams and banked on the win of certain players throughout the Battle. We asked them to give us their [...]
Round 3, Match 2: The Port Chicago 50 vs West of the Moon
JUDGE - MARCUS SEDGWICK The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin Roaring Brook/Macmillan West of the Moon by Margi Preus Harry Abrams Chalk and cheese. Apples and Oranges. I know I’m not the only judge to wonder how on Earth to put two novels into direct competition with each other and pronounce one to be the [...]
Round 2, Match 4: This One Summer vs West of the Moon
JUDGE – ALAYA DAWN JOHNSON This One Summer by Albert Martin Knopf/Random House West of the Moon by Margi Preus Harry Abrams One of the joys of first person narratives is being able to share, for a moment, the intimacy of another person’s perspective. It isn’t just the knowledge of their private lives or secrets [...]
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