Yay, the Cybils are here! Also known as my reading list for the year. This post will serve as my tracker, as I'll mark the ones I've already read (only one -- oops) and then the ones I read because of this list. And I'm going to reverse the order since it's much faster to read picture books than YA, as I found to my cost last year. Again, I'm trying to leave the links in place so if anyone wants to buy a book, a click from here should give the Cybils a few Amazon pennies.
I'm going to try not to look at the winners list until I finish the finalists, so I compare the thoughts of me and my committee to those of the real Cybilites. My committee consists of any available children I can get to read along with me, mostly the ones in my family.
Young Adult Fiction:
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero
Girls Like Us by Gail Giles
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Pointe by Brandy Colbert
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
Speculative Fiction Young Adults
Death Sworn by Leah Cypess
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King
Noggin by John Corey Whaley
Salvage by Alexandra Duncan
The Living by Matt De La Peña
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
While We Run by Karen Healey
Speculative Fiction Elementary and Middle Grades
Boys of Blur by N. D. Wilson
Greenglass House by Kate Milford
Nuts to You by Lynne Rae Perkins
The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell
The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra by Jason Fry
The Luck Uglies by Paul Durham
The Swallow: A Ghost Story by Charis Cotter
Poetry
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Dear Wandering Wildebeest And Other Poems from the Water Hole by Irene Latham, illustrated by Anna Wadham
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems by Paul B. Janeczko
Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons by Jon J Muth
Santa Clauses: Short Poems from the North Pole (Carolrhoda Picture Books) (Junior Library Guild Selection) by Bob Raczka
Voices from the March on Washington by J. Patrick Lewis and George Ella Lyon
Water Rolls, Water Rises Water Rolls, Water Rises: El agua rueda, el agua sube by Pat Mora
Nonfiction For Young Adults
Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis by Alexis Coe
Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters by Laurie Ann Thompson
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming
The Freedom Summer Murders by Don Mitchell
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
Nonfiction For Early And Middle Grades
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cat (Scientists in the Field Series) by Sy Montgomery
Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart
Handle With Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey (Nonfiction – Grades Prek-4) (Junior Library Guild Selection) by Loree Griffin Burns
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats: A Scientific Mystery by Sandra Markle
When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses by Rebecca L. Johnson
Middle Grade Fiction:
Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood by Varsha Bajaj
All Four Stars by Tara Dairman
Death by Toilet Paper by Donna Gephart
Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson
Nickel Bay Nick by Dean Pitchford
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern
Graphic Novels For Young Adults
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow
Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History by Joel Christian Gill and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, illustrated by Canaan White
The Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
To This Day: For the Bullied and Beautiful by Shane Koyczan
Graphic Novels For Elementary And Middle Grades
Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy by John Allison
Bird & Squirrel on Ice by James Burks
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War by Matt Faulkner
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust by Loic Dauvillier
The Dumbest Idea Ever! by Jimmy Gownley
Ballad by Blexbolex
Fiction Picture Books
Brimsby’s Hats by Andrew Prahin
Here Comes the Easter Cat by Deborah Underwood
Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me by Daniel Beaty
Maple by Lori Nichols
Shh! We Have a Plan by Chris Haughton
The Girl and the Bicycle by Mark Pett
This Is a Moose by Richard T. Morris, illustrated by Tom Licthenheld
Easy Readers
Clara and Clem Under the Sea (Penguin Young Readers, L1) by Ethan Long
Extraordinary Warren: A Super Chicken by Sarah Dillard
Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare (Ready-to-Reads) by Melissa Wiley
My New Friend Is So Fun! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) by Mo Willems
Okay, Andy! (Jump-Into-Chapters) by Maxwell Eaton
Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey by Alex Milway
Scholastic Reader Level 1: The Ice Cream Shop: A Steve and Wessley reader by Jennifer E. Morris
Early Chapter Book:
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