Written by Jon Williams
On Valentine’s Day last week, the 2012 CYBIL Award winners were announced. For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards are given to the best books published in the U.S. and Canada in a given year. Titles are nominated mostly by the public, and judged by a panel of volunteers who write for blogs dedicated to children’s and young adult literature.
Here’s a
look at some of this year’s winners:
The
False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Fantasy & Science Fiction):
The first book in a planned trilogy, this book deals with a precocious orphan
named Sage who is thrust into the middle of a brewing war engulfing his
medieval kingdom.
Seraphina
by Rachel Hartman (Fantasy & Science Fiction): In the kingdom of Goredd, the
decades-long peace treaty between humans and dragons is nearing its
anniversary, and tensions are high as Seraphina, a court musician, is drawn
into a murder mystery.
Wonder
by R.J. Palacio (Middle Grade Fiction): Auggie is a youngster who has always
been homeschooled due to illness and a facial deformity. How will he react—and
how will others react to him—when he starts going to a mainstream school?
Bomb
by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction): Sheinkin details the thrilling true-life story
of the race by Germany, the United States, and the Soviet Union to be the first
to develop nuclear weapons during World War II.
For these
winners and a list of other great titles nominated for this year’s CYBIL Awards,
click
here.
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