2013 Cybils Finalist Challenge!

The Cybils are here! The Cybils are here! Just in time too, since it's only a few days since I finished reading last year's list and discovered how closely I matched up with the judges' final verdicts (answer, not very well, although I approved of almost all the finalists). Anyway, time to start this years quest to read through all the choices.

This year the categories are separated by age, rather than by topic, and I officially approve of changing Science Fiction & Fantasy to Speculative Fiction, since I like to call it all SF anyway. Again I'm moving Book Apps to the bottom since I don't really have any way of obtaining them, so I don't count it against myself if I don't read them. Also, I'm attempting to leave the links as is, so that clicking on them leads to Amazon and I hope money for the Cybils.

Books I've read are highlighted in yellow.

Elementary & Middle Grade

Fiction Picture Books DONE

1. Count the Monkeys, Mac Barnett
2. If You Want to See a Whale, Julie Fogliano
3. Journey, Aaron Becker
4. Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, Peter Brown
5. Open This Little Book, Jesse Klausmeier
6. Sophie's Squash, Pat Zietlow Miller
7. The Bear's Song, Benjamin Chaud

N, my only remaining elementary voter, has tentatively voted Count The Monkeys top while we wait for our library to acquire The Bears Song.

Nonfiction DONE

1. Anubis Speaks!: A Guide to the Afterlife by the Egyptian God of the Dead (Secrets of the Ancient Gods), Vicky Alvear Shecter
2. Barbed Wire Baseball, Marissa Moss
3. How Big Were Dinosaurs?, Lita Judge
4. Locomotive, Brian Floca
5. Look Up!: Bird-Watching in Your Own Backyard, Annette LeBlanc Cate
6. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos, Deborah Heiligman
7. Volcano Rising, Elizabeth Rusch, illustrated by Susan Swan

Easy Readers DONE

1. A Big Guy Took My Ball! (An Elephant and Piggie Book), Mo Willems
2. Joe and Sparky Go to School, Jamie Michalak
3. Love Is in the Air (HC) (Penguin Young Readers, L2), Jonathan Fenske
4. Penny and Her Marble (I Can Read Book 1), Kevin Henkes
5. The Meanest Birthday Girl, Josh Schneider
6. Urgency Emergency! Big Bad Wolf, Dosh Archer

Early Chapter Books DONE

1. Dragonbreath #9: The Case of the Toxic Mutants, Ursula Vernon
2. Home Sweet Horror (Scary Tales), James Preller
3. Kelsey Green, Reading Queen (Franklin School Friends), Claudia Mills
4. Lulu and the Dog from the Sea, Hilary McKay
5. The Life of Ty: Penguin Problems, Lauren Myracle
6. Violet Mackerel's Natural Habitat, Anna Branford

Poetry DONE

1. Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems, Marilyn Singer
2. Forest Has a Song: Poems, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
3. Poems to Learn by Heart, Caroline Kennedy
4. Pug: And Other Animal Poems, Valerie Worth
5. The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses, Lisa Wheeler
6. What the Heart Knows: Chants, Charms, and Blessings, Joyce Sidman
7. When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders, J. Patrick Lewis

Graphic Novels DONE

1. Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton, Matt Phelan
2. Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite, Barry Deutsch
3. March Book 1, John Lewis
4. Monster on the Hill, Rob Harrell
5. Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Donner Dinner Party, Nathan Hale
6. Squish #5: Game On!, Jennifer L. Holm
7. The Lost Boy, Greg Ruth

Speculative Fiction DONE

1. Jinx, Sage Blackwood
2. Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase, Jonathan Stroud
3. Rose, Holly Webb
4. Sidekicked, John David Anderson
5. The Rithmatist, Brandon Sanderson
6. The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Kathi Appelt
7. The Water Castle, Megan Frazer Blakemore

Middle Grade Fiction DONE!

1. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, Chris Grabenstein
2. Prisoner B-3087, Ruth Gruener
3. Serafina's Promise, Ann E. Burg
4. The 14 Fibs of Gregory K., Greg Pincus
5. Ultra, David Carroll

Young Adult

Graphic Novels DONE

1. Bad Machinery, John Allison
2. Boxers & Saints Boxed Set, Gene Luen Yang
3. Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: In Pursuit of Flight, Kelly Sue Deconnick
4. Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Tony Cliff
5. Templar, Jordan Mechner
6.  Uzumaki Deluxe Edition, Junji Ito
7. War Brothers: The Graphic Novel, Sharon McKay

Nonfiction DONE!

1. Breakfast on Mars and 37 Other Delectable Essays, Roaring Brook
2. Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II, Martin W. Sandler
3. The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List, Leon Leyson
4. The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, Catherine Reef
5. "The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, James L. Swanson

Speculative Fiction DONE!

1. Conjured, Sarah Beth Durst
2. Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin Trilogy), Robin LaFevers
3. Pantomime (Strange Chemistry), Laura Lam
4. Shadows, Robin McKinley
5. The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson
6. The Waking Dark, Robin Wasserman
7. William Shakespeare's Star Wars, Ian Doescher

YA Fiction DONE!

1. Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets, Evan Roskos
2. Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell
3. Out of The Easy, Ruta Sepetys
4. Rose Under Fire, Elizabeth Wein
5. Sex & Violence, Carrie Mesrobian
6. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina

Book Apps

1. Disney Animated
2. Endless Alphabet
3. MirrorWorld, written by Cornelia Funke
4. To This Day, written by Shane Koyczan
5. Wee You-Things

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