Welcome to our eighth annual awards! Here's the nomination form for books published between last year's contest and this one. If you have any questions, please check out our contest info. Genres are listed in the sidebar under 2013 Nominations by Genre — just click on the category for the latest list of nominated titles. Titles are added continuously until …
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Nominations by individuals for all categories of the Cybils begin October 1st! If you don't have your list ready, get to work and come back tomorrow morning to nominate your choices for the books you feel most passionate about!
Young Adult Nonfiction– Category Description
Welcome to the Dark Side…(queue in your Darth Vader music, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, or Black Sabbath; which ever personifies the dark most for you). Just kidding…or am I? Young Adult Nonfiction is an interesting and somewhat perilous category in that it takes a lot of skill in writing to be effective. The author is speaking …
2013 Nominations: Young Adult Fiction
15 Days Without a Head by Dave Cousins Flux Nominated by: Jen Robinson 17 & Gone by Nova Ren Suma Dutton Juvenile Nominated by: Maureen E Reviewed by: Beth | Clementine | Maureen E 45 Pounds (More or Less) by Kelly Barson Viking Nominated by: gayleenrabakukk Reviewed by: Clementine | Lucy A Really Awesome Mess by Trish Cook and Brendan …
2013 Nominations: Poetry
All the World’s a Stage by Lee Bennett Hopkins Creative Editions Nominated by: Renee La Tulippe Cat Talk by Patricia MacLachlan Katherine Tegen Books Nominated by: Alice@Supratentorial Crazy About Basketball! by Loris Lesynski Annick Press Nominated by: lwreyes Reviewed by: Anastasia Suen Digger, Dozer, Dumper by Hope Vestergaard Candlewick Press Nominated by: Mary McKenna Siddals Face Bug by J. Patrick …
2013 Nominations: Elementary/Middle-Grade Nonfiction
10 Plants That Shook The World by Gillian Richardson Annick Press Nominated by: Flowering Minds Reviewed by: Alice@Supratentorial | Ellen Zschunke A Day in the Deep by Kevin Kurtz/Erin E. Hunter Sylvan Dell Publishing Publisher/ Author Submission A History of Just About Everything: 180 Events, People and Inventions That Changed the World by Elizabeth MacLeod and Frieda Wishinsky Kids Can …
2013 Nominations: Young Adult Nonfiction
“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson Scholastic Nominated by: Amanda Snow Reviewed by: Stephanie Charlefour | Terry Doherty A Marked Man: The Assassination of Malcolm X by Matt Doeden Publisher not defined Publisher/ Author Submission Andrew Jenks: My Adventures As a Young Filmmaker by Andrew Jenks Scholastic Nominated by: MotherReader Reviewed …
2013 Nominations: Middle Grade Fiction
A Girl Called Problem by Katie Quirk Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Nominated by: Patricia Tilton Reviewed by: Julie Williams | Sherry Early A Song for Bijou by Josh Farrar Walker Books for Young Readers Nominated by: Brandy Painter Reviewed by: Heidi G. | Jennifer Donovan | Jennifer Rumberger | Mark Buxton | Ms. Yingling | Sherry Early A Summer …
2013 Nominations: Graphics
Elementary/Middle-Grade #1 Your Pajamas Are Showing! by Michel-Yves Schmitt, illus. Vincent Caut Graphic Universe Publisher/ Author Submission Reviewed by: Jennifer Akissi, Feline Invasion by Marguerite Abouet, Mathieu Sapin Flying Eye Books Nominated by: mwinne2 Astronaut Academy: Re-entry by Dave Roman First Second Books Nominated by: Charlotte BIG NATE: GAME ON! by LINCOLN PEIRCE Andrew McMeel Publisher/ Author Submission Babymouse #17: …
2013 Nominations: Fiction Picture Books
123 versus ABC by Mike Boldt HarperCollins Nominated by: Heidi G. Reviewed by: Dawn | Jodell Sadler, Picture Book Lunch 999 Frogs Wake Up by Kimura, Ken NorthSouth Publisher/ Author Submission Reviewed by: Deb Nance at Readerbuzz A Butterfly Without Wings by David M. F. Powers Pants On Fire Press Nominated by: Julie A Day at the Lake by Stephanie …