November 18, 2011 – Excited discussion brought forth the following nominations for this year’s best teen literature:
Paper Covers Rock, by Jenny Hubbard
Chime, by Franny Billingsley
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, by Ransom Riggs
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne Valente
A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness
In Trouble, by Ellen Levine
To Timbuktu, by Casey Scieszka
Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys
Every You Every Me, by David Levithan
The following each received one nomination each:
Across the Universe, by Beth Revis
As I Wake, by Elizabeth Scott
Bluefish, by Pat Schmatz
Dark Eden, by Patrick Carman
Displacement, by Thalia Chatlas
First Day on Earth, by Cecil Castellucci
The Floating Islands, by Rachel Neumeier
I’ll Be There, by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Iron Queen, by Julie Kagawa
Love Inc, by Yvonne Collins
Midnight Palace, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Near Witch, by Victoria Schwab
The Queen of Water, by Laura Resau
Needless to say, we are all still reading like crazy!
What is YOUR favorite??
Tags: 2011, short list
January 25, 2012 at 11:41 am |
How on earth did they leave ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ out?