It’s Almost Voting Time!!

New nominations this week: Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson, and The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. Welcome to the big ole party, books!

We’re at just a little over two weeks til the big vote; the ALA Printz committee releases their vote February 12th, and we’ll be announcing ours just a couple days before, on February 10th. It’ll be interesting to see how our picks compare!

We meet this Friday to narrow down the list (and possibly add new nominations), but as it stands now our nominees are:

2 or more nominations:

• The Hate U Give (12 nom)
• Dear Martin (3 nom)
• Midnight at the Electric (3 nom)
• Genuine Fraud (2 nom)
• Grit (2 nom)
• Radio Silence (2 nom)
• Tash Hearts Tolstoy (2 nom)
• Vincent and Theo (2 nom)

1 nomination:

• Bull 
• Frogkisser! 
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
• Night Witches 
• One of Us Is Lying
• The Pearl Thief 
• Piecing Me Together
• Shadow Run 
• Soldier Boy
• Thornhill 
• Who Killed Christopher Goodman? 
• You Bring the Distant Near

And our recommended titles are:

• Beck
• Beyond the Bright Sea
• City of Saints and Thieves
• Crossing Ebenezer Creek
• Disappeared
• History Is All You Left Me
• Honestly, Ben
• Moxie
• Optimists Die First
• Posted
• Queer, There, and Everywhere
• Ramona Blue
• Release
• Saint Death
• Spellbook of the Lost and Found
• The Education of Margot Sanchez
• There’s Someone Inside Your House
• We Are Okay

We’ll update this site with whatever new adventures Friday brings!