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Jennifer Donnelly is the author of three adult novels—The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose—as well as the young adult novels Revolution and A Northern Light, winner of Britain’s prestigious Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award. Her most […]
There are few things judge Melanie Crowder enjoys more in this life than a well-drawn tournament bracket. While most adults leave their athletic obsessions on the verdant playing fields of their youth, Crowder has yet to relinquish her reverse chinlock on all things competitive. A beast on the [adult rec] tennis court, a public menace […]
Michael Buckley writes books. He’s not proud of it but he has to make a living somehow. Not everyone gets to be a rock star or play in the NBA or be a prima ballerina. Some folks have to do the heavy lifting this society requires to keep it from falling into chaos. Still, he’s […]
Cece Bell is the author of the Newbery Honor Book and Eisner winner El Deafo. She is also the author of Rabbit and Robot, winner of a Geisel Honor. She lives in Virginia with her husband, author Tom Angleberger (who was a judge in last year’s Battle of the Kids’ Books).
We all had favorites that we were unable to include on this year’s Contender List (completed by the beginning of December) for one reason or another. Here are three from each of us:
THE BOYS WHO CHALLENGED HITLER by Phillip Hoose CHALLENGER DEEP by Neal Shusterman DROWNED CITY by Don Brown ECHO by Pam Muñoz Ryan GONE CRAZY IN ALABAMA by Rita Williams-Garcia GOODBYE STRANGER by Rebecca Stead THE HIRED GIRL by Laura Amy Schlitz I CRAWL THROUGH IT by A. S. King THE MARVELS by Brian […]
We can’t spill secrets, but here are three hints: We haven’t changed our rule about picture books. Multiple YMA honors for the same contender happened. YMA love shows up among our graphic novel contenders. Now, over to you. Based on this, anyone want to speculate about what is going to show up next Wednesday?
… Wednesday, January 20th, 2016. So watch this space!
The waiting is over! Find out which book is the winner of the 2015 Battle of the Kid's Books ...
I’ve always considered myself to be a fairly eclectic reader so I wasn’t particularly intimidated by the diversity in the three titles I received for this last round of SLJ’s Battle of the Books. I was intimidated, however, and still am, by having to select one to win. Any fan of graphic novels, historical non-fiction, and contemporary YA would absolutely love their favorite genre in this group.
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