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By: Graffiti Moon | crossreferencing

Graffiti Moon | crossreferencing — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:01:55 +0000

[...] My Printz Will Come to this book being a personal favorite but flawed, and a fellow commenter named Adele responded: “I really wish you’d read the Australian version. It wasn’t flawed – it was a modern [...]

By: Mark Flowers

Mark Flowers — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:32:02 +0000

@adele – interesting. Do you have a copy of the Aussie version you’d be willing to part with?

By: Adele

Adele — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 10:57:45 +0000

@mark – Then I really wish you’d read the Australian version. It wasn’t flawed – it was a modern Australian YA classic. I have heard many changes were made for the American market….

By: Hope Baugh

Hope Baugh — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:28:33 +0000

I almost forgot to mention one other book that I’ve put on hold because a voracious reader colleague said it is her favorite of the year so far:

LONG LANKIN, by Lindsey Barraclough.

Has anyone here read that one yet?

By: Hope Baugh

Hope Baugh — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:34:19 +0000

I could have sworn I re-read all of the comments here, but I missed Paul’s! Just like when you’re looking for a book that the computer catalog says is “on shelf” – sometimes it takes two pairs of eyes to find it! (hah!)

By: Mark Flowers

Mark Flowers — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:22:59 +0000

The reference to CNV as not-YA was a comment by Paul on August 25 on this post (he said: “awesome, but is it young adult?”).

The answer, for Paul, is as Karyn has already said, CNV is definitely YA. The reasoning is that the Printz manual’s only age requirement is that the publisher lists the book as aimed at somewhere in the 12-18 range. I think it would be a fascinating discussion to talk about books marketed as YA that perhaps are not “really” YA, but it’s a discussion for a different blog.

Thanks, Hope, for the kind words about our blog. I’m blushing.

By: Hope Baugh

Hope Baugh — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:32:37 +0000

I haven’t read Code Name Verity yet, but I, too, read somewhere that someone thought it wasn’t really YA but didn’t give reasons, just mentioned it in passing. I thought it might have been one of the Flowers but when I went back and re-read their posts, they both love the book as a YA title. So…I have nothing to add except that I share Wendy’s question.

By the way, I _LOVE_ Mark and Sarah Flowers’ “Crossreferencing” blog! Thanks, Elizabeth, for pointing it out. I agree that it is fun and thought-provoking to read it along with “Someday My Printz…” Thanks, Mark and Sarah, for writing it!

David Levithan’s new book, Every Day, came in for me at my library last night. Yay!

By: Karyn Silverman

Karyn Silverman — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:01:45 +0000

@Wendy, Code Name Verity is YA– and is currently my frontrunner for the Printz! What led you to think it wasn’t?

By: Danielle

Danielle — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:25:04 +0000

‘Graffiti Moon’ by Cath Crowley

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:59:30 +0000

Why wouldn’t Code Name Verity be young adult?