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Kirkus Teen
This is a little late, but Kirkus released their list last Monday. What I love about this list is that it’s HUGE compared to everyone else’s; in related news, Kirkus has a huge review volume, so it’s pretty well guaranteed that there will be a super surprise or two.
The quick and dirty breakdown:
The list is 50 titles long.
24 either were on our original list or else we added them along the way.
2 were not on our list but were added after appearing on other year-end lists (Conviction and Most Dangerous)
And a whopping 24 were not on our list at all, and of those 24, nearly half weren’t even on our radar. Now that you’ve got the numbers, let’s look at the titles in category 3.
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Finding Audrey I read and loved but thought was not a contender; March Book 2 Sarah read and loved but decided book 2/time is short/move along.
The rest are split between the on a pile, haven’t read it category and the what is that book and why did I not know about it category. As always, I want to know if you’ve read any of these and how they compare to the top 10 or so of the year.
In the know it/haven’t read it stack: Never Always Sometimes; Fallout; Willfull Machines (I really like the cover); The Shadow Behind the Stars; Scarlet Undercover; Not If I See You First; Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom; Ink and Ashes (nearly at the top of the books I desperately want to get to pile); Scarlet Undercover; My Seneca Village (I have copy on order but this one is nearly impossible to get hold of); and Out of Darkness (actually at the top of the pile).
In the books that were entirely off our radar stack: Cut Off; Weird Girl and What’s His Name; Hellhole; See No Color; What We Saw; Juniors; The Lost Marble Notebook of Forgotten Girl and Random Boy; I Don’t Live Here Anymore; Under a Painted Sky; Astrologer’ Daughter; We are All Made of Molecules (based on the Pyrite votes, this has some fierce support); and The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (which I actually have in ARC but the title sounded terribly juvenile so I’d overlooked it).
I’m about to read Lizard Radio and then I Crawl Through It, and then start on additions to the list (beginning with Out of Darkness), but if I should reorder my reading to capture one of these (from either category), speak up. We won’t cover everything but if something is a particularly strong contender, I’d rather read it than not.
Filed under: Books to look for
About Karyn Silverman
Karyn Silverman is the High School Librarian and Educational Technology Department Chair at LREI, Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (say that ten times fast!). Karyn has served on YALSA’s Quick Picks and Best Books committees and was a member of the 2009 Printz committee. She has reviewed for Kirkus and School Library Journal. She has a lot of opinions about almost everything, as long as all the things are books. Said opinions do not reflect the attitudes or opinions of SLJ, LREI, YALSA or any other institutions with which she is affiliated. Find her on Twitter @InfoWitch or e-mail her at karynsilverman at gmail dot com.
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