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2015 Judge: Isabel Quintero
Isabel Quintero was born and raised in Southern California. Her love of reading and writing comes from her mother reading to her before she went to bed, and from the teachers and professors who encouraged her to keep writing. Her love of chorizo and carne asada tacos comes from her dad grilling on Sundays during [...]
2015 Judge: G. Neri
G. Neri is the Coretta Scott King honor-winning author of Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty and the recipient of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Promising Poet Award for his free verse novella, Chess Rumble. His novels include Surf Mules and the Horace Mann Upstander Award-winning Ghetto Cowboy. His latest books include the YA [...]
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. Our very own Shelley Diaz has [...]
2015 BoB: Top 8 Titles Guessing Game
Which of the sixteen contenders will move on to Round Two? Put your guesses in the comments and we will award the winners with prizes for you or your library!
2015 Judge: Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon is the author of five young adult novels: How It Went Down, Camo Girl, 37 Things I Love, Fire in the Streets, and The Rock and the River, for which she received the ALA Coretta Scott King New Talent Award and an NAACP Image Award nomination. She also wrote X: A Novel with [...]
2015 Judge: Jo Knowles
Jo Knowles is the award-wining author of See You at Harry’s, Jumping Off Swings, Living with Jackie Chan and other books for teens. Her new novel, Read Between The Lines, has been described as “masterfully woven” in a starred review from Kirkus and will be published in March 2015. Jo is a pacifist by nature [...]
The 2015 Battle Plans
And here we are with this year’s battle plans. I know some of you are going to scream (as you already begged us to not do this:), but we stayed with the traditional alphabetical order by title. Sorry! So, what you do you all think? Which eight will advance to Round 2? Will the Newbery [...]
2015 Judge: Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson’s first novel for young adults, The Summer Prince, received three starred reviews, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. She grew up in Washington, D.C., attended Columbia University, and now lives in New York City.
2015 Judge: Rachel Hartman
Rachel Hartman was born in Kentucky, but has lived a variety of places including Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, England, and Japan. She has a BA in Comparative Literature, although she insists it should have been a BS because her undergraduate thesis was called “Paradox and Parody in Don Quixote and the satires of Lucian.” She [...]
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