(This is penned by Battle Commander third, Jonathan Hunt.) Nine of our sixteen BOB finalists made off one some kind of recognition at Monday’s ALA Youth Media Awards Announcements, including I’m pleased to note the Newbery Medal (which we often manage to omit entirely–not this year!) Here’s a rundown of how BOB books fared– ANNA […]

   Here they are! Let us know what you think in the comments.     ANNA AND THE SWALLOW MAN by Gavriel Savit FREEDOM IN CONGO SQUARE by Carole Boston Weatherford and R. Gregory Christie FREEDOM OVER ME by Ashley Bryan GHOST by Jason Reynolds THE GIRL WHO DRANK THE MOON by Kelly Barnhill THE […]

Watch this space next Wednesday, January 18th. We’ve got some you would expect, but some outliers too!  So continue to guess here —we’ve got YA, MG, and PBs, for the first time!

… We will be revealing the contenders on Wednesday, January 18th, 2017!  Any guesses as to what they may be?