I'm pleased to announce that we have 45 nominated titles for middle grade and young adult non-fiction for this year's Cybils awards. There are lots of great selections for kids of all ages. Many thanks to the people who submitted nominations.
Jen Robinson, Organizer for the Middle Grade and Young Adult Nonfiction Category
1607: A New Look at Jamestown
written by Karen Lange
National Geographic
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Across the Wide Ocean
written by Karen Romano Young
Harper Collins (Greenwillow)
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America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60's
written by Laban Hill
Little, Brown
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Another Book About Design: Complicated Doesn't Make It Bad
written by Mark Gonyea
Henry Holt and Co.
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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art
written by Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Philomel
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Astrobiology (Cool Science)
written by Fred Bortz
Lerner
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Black and White Airmen: Their True History
written by John Fleischman
Houghton Mifflin
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Dangerous Book for Boys, The
written by Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden
Collins
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Daring Book for Girls, The
written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
Collins
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Dinosaur Eggs Discovered!: Unscrambling the Clues
written by Lowell Dingus (and others)
Twenty-First Century Books
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Face to Face with Grizzlies
written by Joel Satore
National Georgraphic
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From Slave to Superstar of the Wild West: The Awesome Story of Jim Beckwourth
written by Tom DeMund
Legends of the West Publishing
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Grief Girl
written by Erin Vincent
Delacorte
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Halloween Book of Facts and Fun, The
written by Wendie Old
Albert Whitman
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Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer
written by Gretchen Woelfle
Calkins Creek (Boyd Mills
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Let's Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking
written by Deanna Staffo
Lobster Press
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Marie Curie: Giants of Science #4
written by Kathleen Krull
Viking Juvenile
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Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
written by Danica McKellar
Hudson Street Press
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Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog
written by Becky Hall
Albert Whitman & Company
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Muckrakers: How Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Lincoln Steffens Helped Expose Scandal, Inspire Reform, and Invent Investigative Journalism
written by Ann Bausum
National Geographic Children's Books
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My Feet Aren't Ugly
written by Debra Beck
Beaufort Books
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Ox, House, Stick: The Story of Our Alphabet
written by Don Robb
Charlesbridge
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Periodic Table: Elements With Style!, The
written by Adrian Dingle
Kingfisher
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Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials
written by Sneed B. Collard
Darby Creek Publishers
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Real Benedict Arnold, The
written by Jim Murphy
Clarion (Houghton Mifflin)
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Red: The Next Generation of American Writers--Teenage Girls--On What Fires Up Their Lives Today
written by Amy Goldwasser
Hudson Street Press
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Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story
written by Peter Lane Taylor
Kar-Ben Publishing
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Smart-Opedia
written by Eve Drobot
Maple Tree Press
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Sneeze!
written by Alexandra Siy
Charlesbridge
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Snow Baby: The Arctic Childhood of Robert E. Peary's Daring Daughter, The
written by Katherine Kirkpatrick
Holiday House
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Social Climber's Guide to High School, The
written by Robyn Schneider
Simon Pulse
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Superfood or Superthreat: The Issue of Genetically Engineered Food
written by Kathlyn Gay
Enslow
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Tasting the Sky: a Palestinian Childhood
written by Ibtisam Barakat
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Titanic: An Interactive History Adventure, The
written by Bob Temple
Capstone Press
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Tracking Trash
written by Loree Griffin Burns
Houghton Mifflin
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Ultimate Interactive Atlas of the World
written by Elaine Jackson (and others)
Scholastic
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Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain, The
written by Peter Sis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin
written by Larry Dane Brimmer
Calkins Creek (Boyd Mills
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Whale Scientists: Solving the Mystery of Whale Strandings, The
written by Fran Hodgkins
Houghton Mifflin
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What's Eating You?: Parasites--The Inside Story
written by Nicola Davies
Candlewick
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Who Was First
written by Russell Freedman
Clarion
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Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous
written by Catherine M. Andronik
Henry Holt
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World Made New: Why the Age of Exploration Happened and How It Changed the World, The
written by Marc Aronson
National Geographic
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania
written by Bob Spitz
Little, Brown Young Readers
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You Can Write a Story
written by Lisa Bullard
Two-Can Publishing, Inc.
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Thank you for including "Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children About Their Art" in your list of best books for the middle grade and young adult nonfiction categories.
We are incredibly proud of the impact of this book, which benefits The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA and our mission to inspire an appreciation of art and the development of literacy through the art of the picture book.
Celebrating our fifth anniversary in November, The Carle is a 40,000 square foot facility which features three Galleries of rotating picture book art from around the world. The Museum also houses a Reading Library, hands-on Art Studio, Auditorium, Cafe and Museum Shop.
The contributing illustrators in "Artist to Artist" all exhibited or were keenly involved in the first years of the Museum. In this book, they speak to the heart of children of all ages though moving letters, dynamic self-portraits, and glimpses into their early work, personal effects, and studio spaces.
We hope you enjoy "Artist to Artist," and find inspiration in "the art we know first."
To learn more, please visit our web site at www.picturebookart.org, or better yet, visit us in person. We look forward to welcoming you!
Posted by: Rebecca Miller Goggins | January 05, 2008 at 01:51 PM