When we began setting up The Cybils and seeking coordinators for the various prize categories, selecting a chairperson for the Middle Grade Fiction category was, as the kids say, a no-brainer.
Betsy, author of A Fuse #8 Production and a librarian at The Donnell Central Children's Room in NYC, reviews a book a day, most often in the Middle Grade or Picture Book categories. She's a woman who knows her stuff and we're fortunate to have her serve on the nominating committee for Middle Grade fiction as well. That's a good thing, as there are 63 titles nominated for a Middle Grade Fiction Cybil.
Now on to the list...
Alabama Moon
Watt Key
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
All of the Above
Shelley Pearsall
Little, Brown & Co.
Ashley Enright Investigations
Lauren E. Smith
Publish America
Battle Cry
Jan Neubert Schultz
Carolrhoda Books
Black Duck
Janet Taylor Lisle
Philomel
Blue
Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Calkins Creek Books
Bread and Roses Too
Katherine Paterson
Clarion
Breathe
Cliff McNish
Orion Children's Books
Caddy Ever After
Hilary McKay
Margaret K. McElderry
Charlotte In Paris
Annie Bryant
Beacon Street Girls
Clementine
Sara Pennypacker
Hyperion
Clue In the Linoleum Lederhosen, The
M.T. Anderson
Harcourt
Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters
Lesley M.M. Blume
Knopf Books
Desperate Journey
Jim Murphy
Scholastic
Drowned Maiden's Hair, A
Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick
Fairies of Nutfolk Wood, The
Barb Bentler Ullman
Katherine Tegen Books
Finding Day's Bottom
Candice Ransom
Carolrhoda Books
Firegirl
Tony Abbot
Little, Brown & Co.
Fly By Night
Frances Hardinge
Harper Collins
Framed
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Harper Collins
Georgie's Moon
Chris Woodworth
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Goodnight Mrs. Dinglewall
JoAn Martin
Great American Books
Green Glass Sea, The
Ellen Klages
Viking Juvenile
Half-Moon Investigations
Eoin Colfer
Miramax
Happy Kid
Gail Gauthier
Putnam Juvenile
Heat
Mike Lupica
Philomel
Here Lies the Librarian
Richard Peck
Dial
Higher Power of Lucky
Susan Patron
Atheneum
Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale
Bonny Becker
Clarion Books
Home In a Wilderness Fort: Copper, 1844
Charlotten Otten
Arbutus Press
Home and Other Big Fat Lies
Jill Wolfson
Henry Holt & Co.
Hugging the Rock
Susan Taylor Brown
Tricycle Press
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Wendy Mass
Little, Brown & Co.
Julia's Kitchen
Brenda Ferber
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Kichi In Jungle Jeopardy
Lila Guzman
Blooming Tree Press
Kiki Strike
Kirsten Miller
Bloomsbury
Larger-Than-Life Lara
Dandi Mackall
Dutton Juvenile
Loud Silence of Francine Green, The
Karen Cushman
Clarion Books
Manny Files, The
Christian Burch
Atheneum
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The
Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick
Misadventures of Millicent Madding: Bully-Be-Gone
Brian Tacang
Harper Collins
Mystery of the Hats, The
Eddie Lay
Publish America
Out of Patience
Brian Meehl
Delacorte Books For Young Readers
Penelope Bailey Takes the Stage
Susanna Reiche
Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
Penny From Heaven
Jennifer L. Holm
Random House
Quest For the Dragon Stone
Ami Blackford
Red Cygnet Press
Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything
Leonore Look
Atheneum
Rules
Cynthia Lord
Scholastic
Secret of the Three Treasures
Janni Lee Simner
Holiday House
Shug
Jenny Han
Simon & Schuster
Strictest School In the World, The
Howard Whitehouse
Kids Can Press
Swan Town: The Secret Journal Of Susanna Shakespeare
Michael J. Ortiz
Harper Collins
That Girl Lucy Moon
Amy Timberlake
Hyperion
Toys Go Out
Emily Jenkins
Schwarz & Wade
Uncharted Waters
Leslie Bulion
Peachtree Publishers
Vanishing Act
Jon Feinstein
Knopf Books
Victory
Susan Cooper
Margaret K. McElderry
Vive la Paris
Esme Codell
Hyperion
Weedflower
Cynthia Kadohata
Atheneum
Wright 3
Blue Balliett
Scholastic
Year of the Dog
Grace Lin
Little, Brown & Co.
Yellow Star
Jennifer Roy
Marshall Cavendish Children's Books
Younguncle Comes To Town
Vandana Singh
Viking Juvenile
The titles are almost indecipherable with the minute size and the color. Please make it more legible? Thanks!
Posted by: | November 26, 2006 at 09:05 PM
The coding was all screwed up. Sorry about that.
Posted by: Anne | November 27, 2006 at 06:07 AM
Please note an error in the Middle Grade Fiction Nominations List -
As much as I'd like the credit for writing Bread and Roses Too - well, there's no point in trying. (But I'm honored since Katherine Paterson is my role model.) Oh, and the publisher is Clarion. I know you know all this already but anyway...
Posted by: Joyce Moyer Hostetter | November 27, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Please add Sweet Thang by Alison Wittenberg
Posted by: | February 06, 2007 at 03:51 PM