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The Eve of the Battle…
…and all is quiet.
We just wrapped up the voting in the Undead Poll and after consecutive years when it wasn’t even close–you’ll remember THE FROG SCIENTIST and A CONSPIRACY OF KINGS had huge insurmountable leads–we are happy to report that it was a very competitive field with no fewer than five books in serious contention and a late rush by one contender to close the final gap. But all will be revealed later . . .
Now a word about our wonderful judges. We were impressed, as we always are, with the talent that School Library Journal is able to recruit as our judges, but this year we cringed quite a few times. Why? Because we easily could have picked half of them to be on the other side of the fence this year: Matt Phelan for AROUND THE WORLD or Lauren Myracle for SHINE or E. Lockhart (er, Emily Jenkins) for TOYS COME HOME or Sarah Weeks for PIE or Sara Zarr for HOW TO SAVE A LIFE or, most nerve wrecking of all, Maggie Stiefvater for THE SCORPIO RACES. So a big thank you to all the judges for their hard work and good grace!
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For those new to our arena, here is how it works:
There will be a match pretty much every weekday until the final round. The dates are all on the sidebar.
We post each match early every morning (as one of the two Battle Commander halves is an early riser).
Start commenting because:
- it is fun;
- it is illuminating;
- as our Friends of BoB pointed out in their posts, it is the community developed here among all of you that makes this event worthwhile;
- and this year we have a special incentive — our two sponsors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HarperCollins, are providing some cool giveaways. Everyone who comments from now until the end of the Battle will be entered into a drawing for many cool things which include signed copies, t-shirts, totebags, and some great collections of books.
At the end of every battle week we will have a Peanut Gallery post — a collection of links and tweets to other commentary on the BoB.
It all starts tomorrow . . .
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