
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM by ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE published by Viking Children’s Books Penguin Young Readers
MARCHING FOR FREEDOM by ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE published by Viking Children’s Books Penguin Young Readers
The Lost Conspiracy by Frances Hardinge HarperCollins The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner Houghton Mifflin Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge Viking Judged by Katherine Paterson If you have been following the Battle, you know what a pickle I found myself in. As I told one of the Battle Commanders when I learned the […]
Here’s what we’ve come across this week: Kara Schaff Dean caught up with the Battle here, considers the finalists here and also reflects on how the Battle brings new readers to the contenders. “As the 2010 edition draws to a close, I look forward to the opportunity to pass on the results with the same […]
Marching for Freedom by Elizabeth Partridge Viking Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan Arthur A. Levine Books Judged by Walter Dean Myers Shaun Tan invites the reader to go along with him on a journey full of surprises. It is soon clear as we go through these very brief stories, illustrated by Tan with […]
M1: 3/13 Judge Duncan Tonatiuh
Freedom in Congo Square vs. Freedom Over Me
M2: 3/14 Judge Lulu Delacre
Thunder Boy Jr. vs. When Green Becomes Tomatoes
M3: 3/15 Judge James Dashner
Ghost vs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon
M4: 3/16 Judge Varian Johnson
Makoons vs. March: Book Three
M5: 3/17 Judge Tanya Lee Stone
Samurai Rising vs. Some Writer!
M6: 3/20 Judge Jane Yolen
Wet Cement vs. When the Sea Turned to Silver
M7: 3/21 Judge Nova Ren Suma
Anna and the Swallow Man vs. The Lie Tree
M8: 3/22 Judge Brendan Kiely
The Passion of Dolssa vs. The Sun is Also a Star
M1: 3/23 Judge Javaka Steptoe
Freedom in Congo Square vs. When Green Becomes Tomatoes
M2: 3/24 Judge Eliot Schrefer
Ghost vs. March: Book Three
M3: 3/27 Judge Cynthia Kadohata
Some Writer! vs. When the Sea Turned to Silver
M4: 3/28 Judge Sara Farizan
The Lie Tree vs.The Sun is Also a Star
M1: 3/29 Judge Ellen Oh
Freedom in Congo Square vs. March: Book Three
M2: 3/30 Judge Sabaa Tahir
Some Writer! vs. The Sun is Also a Star
3/30
3/31 The Closer Judge Kwame Alexander
The Girl Who Drank the Moon vs. March: Book Three vs. The Sun is Also a Star
12/14 Guess-the-Contenders-Game
1/18 Contenders Revealed
1/31 Fantasy BOB Commences and Pairings Revealed
2/6-2/26 Judges:
James Dashner, Lulu Delacre, Sara Farizan,
Varian Johnson, Cynthia Kadohata, Brendan Kiely,
Ellen Oh, Eliot Schrefer, Javaka Steptoe,
Tanya Lee Stone, Nova Ren Suma, Sabba Tahir, Duncan Tonatiuh, Jane Yolen, and Closer Kwame Alexander.
2/10 Download SLJs Battle of the Kids’ Books Brackets.
3/1 Judge Pairings Announced
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