While nominations are open in all categories, we're also featuring a few genres at a time over the first few days — Eds.
The middle grade years are those with the most potential to turn a
child into a reader for life. It's often the books you read between the
ages of 8-12 that you remember long into adulthood as your dearest
books of all. These are the years when kids really and truly start to
figure themselves out as readers–their likes and dislikes and all the
rest in between. It's during this time when children strike out on
their own in earnest, reading for themselves and by themselves, all the
while creating themselves.
In this Cybils category, we're looking for the 2009 novels that capture
real life in all of its wonderful messiness. So we're not talking magic
or superheroes or werewolves or elves. Instead, think adventures and
school stories, mysteries and stories about families, and tales that
tell kids of life across the globe. Tell us which of the Middle Grade
fiction titles published this year you think kids will still be talking
about when they're all grown up.
–Kerry Millar, category organizer
Click here to go to the nomination form and leave your nomination for this category. (For more information about the form, go here.)
To view an up-to-the-minute list of what's already been nominated for this category, click here.