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2011 Roundup:
FROST by Marianna Baer is a 2011 Cybils Best Young Adult Fiction Finalist.
ROT & RUIN by Jonathan Maberry won the 2010 Cybils Award for Fantasy and Science Fiction
ROT & RUIN is also on the ALA 2011 Best Fiction for Young Adults list, the winner of the Dead Letter Award for Best Zombie Novel, a nominee for the Arkansas Teen Book Award, on the 2012 Texas Lone Star Reading List and on the Missouri Gateway List.
Jonathan won the 'Shambler Award' for Lifetime Achievement, and his adaptation of WOLFMAN won the Scribe Award for Best Adaptation.
CHASING BROOKLYN was a RITA FINALIST 2011, and is a Missouri Gateway nominee.
I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU by Dan Wells is A BOOKLIST HORROR TOP TEN for 2011.
Dan Wells was a John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer nominee.
MR. MONSTER by Dan Wells won the Whitney award for Best Novel. MR. MONSTER is also an ALA QUICK PICK FOR RELUCTANT READERS
VARIANT by Robison Wells is a 2011 PW Book of the Year.
Robison Wells is a PW Flying Start (December).
CHASING BROOKLYN by Lisa Schroeder, HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour, A SWEET DISORDER by Jacqueline Kolosov and THE MORGUE AND ME by John Ford are all on the TAYSHAS 2011 list.
TRAPPED By Michael Northrop is on the 2012 TAYSHAS List.
IT'S RAINING CUPCAKES by Lisa Schroeder and SAVING MADDIE by Varian Johnson are 2011 Bank Street College of Education Best Books.
THE DRAGON OF CRIPPLE CREEK by Troy Howell is an ABC New Voices Project selection for 2011.
YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME by Brian Meehl is on the BCCB Blue Ribbon Winner List for 2011.
TAKE ME THERE by Carolee Dean is a Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee.
SEA by Heidi Kling is a 2011 IRA Young Adult Choice and a Missouri Gateway Award Nominee.
THE MORGUE AND ME has been nominated for the 2011-2012 Georgia Peach Book Award.
OTHER by Karen Kincy is an ALA Top Ten Popular Paperback for Young Adults.
Two stars for Rob Wells's VARIANT (VOYA and PW) and Stars for Jonathan Maberry's THE KING OF PLAGUES (Kirkus), Brian Meehl's YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME (PW), Kristen Tracy's THE REINVENTION OF BESSICA LEFTER (BCCB), Kristen Tracy's SHARKS AND BOYS (Kirkus), and Dan Wells's I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU (Booklist).
2010:
HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour has won the Northern California Book Award for Children's Literature.
HOLD STILL has been nominated for the 2010-2011 Georgia Peach Book Award.
HOLD STILL was named a 2010 Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children in the 14 and up category.
HOLD STILL was chosen for inclusion in the 2010 Kansas State Reading Circle Catalog.
HOLD STILL has been selected as one of the Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of 2009
THE MORGUE AND ME by John Ford and SHADOWED SUMMER by Saundra Mitchell are Edgar Award nominees for BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL.
THE MORGUE AND ME by John Ford is an Agatha Award nominee for BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL.
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop is a NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age 2010 pick
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop and HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour are on the ALA BEST BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS list for 2010.
FAR FROM YOU by Lisa Schroeder and GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop make the 2010 TAYSHAS List
2009 Roundup:
6 starred reviews:
HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour (Dutton, October 2009), PW
CAMILLE MCPHEE FELL UNDER THE BUS by Kristen Tracy (Delacorte, August 2009), School Library Journal
SECRETS OF TRUTH AND BEAUTY by Megan Frazer (Hyperion, June 2009) PW
THE MORGUE AND ME by John Ford (Viking, June 2009) PW
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop (Scholastic, April 2009), PW and Booklist
2 PW Flying Starts:
HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop
1 Morris Award Nomination:
HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour
2 books on the 2009 TAYSHAS list:
MY LIFE AS A RHOMBUS by Varian Johnson (Flux 2008)
GRIEF GIRL by Erin Vincent (Delacorte 2007)
1 Lonestar Reading List 2009-2010 pick:
SUCK IT UP by Brian Meehl (Delacorte 2008)
4 ALAN Picks:
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop
SHADOWED SUMMER by Saundra Mitchell(Delacorte, February 2009)
THE BROTHERS TORRES by Coert Voorhees
FAR FROM YOU by Lisa Schroeder (Simon Pulse 2008)
3 Junior Library Guild Selections:
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop
SHADOWED SUMMER by Saundra Mitchell
HOLD STILL by Nina LaCour
1 2009 NYPL Stuff for the Teen Age Pick:
MY LIFE AS A RHOMBUS by Varian Johnson (Flux 2008)
1 2009 NYPL 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing:
CAMILLE MCPHEE FELL UNDER THE BUS by Kristen Tracy
1 YALSA Top Ten Books for Young Adults 2009:
THE BROTHERS TORRES by Coert Voorhees (Hyperion 2008)
1 YALSA 2009 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers:
I HEART ME, YOU HAUNT ME by Lisa Schroeder (Simon Pulse 2008)
1 The Association of Booksellers for Children's NEW VOICES 2009:
GENTLEMEN by Michael Northrop
and 1 on the School Library Journal's Best Books of the Year List 2009:
CAMILLE MCPHEE FELL UNDER THE BUS by Kristen Tracy
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