On Valentine’s Day, the Cybils winners were announced. Full information on each title is at the Cybils website.
For YA, the winners were:
Non-fiction: The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain, Houghton Mifflin
Graphic Novels: Yummy; The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy duBurke, Lee & Low Books. My review.
Fantasy & Science Fiction: Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry, Simon & Schuster
Young Adult Fiction: Split by Swati Avasthi, Knopf
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Congratulations, Swati and SPLIT! This book deserves this award and all the praise it’s getting. Months after reading it, the characters haunt me–in all the right ways. They’re so real I wonder what they are doing now. Beautiful prose, too, throughout a well-paced story.
KUDOS to all the Cyblils winners.
Split was a fantastic story, one I hope everyone has the opportunity to enjoy. In fact, pull out all of the books on the shortlists and give them a try. Wonderful all of them!
Rebecca & Michelle, I have SPLIT set aside and hopefully will get to read it soon.