Yippee! It’s that time of year again and one of my most favorite things about January 1st – the Cybils Shortlist is up and I’m ready to start reading! (I’ve learned my lesson and will reserve those sometimes hard to get children’s non-fiction books FIRST.)
Easy Readers & Early Chapter Books
Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies – 2.5.11
Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl – 2.5.11
National Geographic Readers: Ants – 2.5.11
The Babysitters: Cork and Fuzz – 7.1.11
We Are In a Book (An Elephant and Piggie Book) – 2.5.11
Anna Hibiscus – 3.13.11
Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 – 4.9.11
Home on the Range (Down Girl and Sit) – 7.1.11
Princess Posey and the First Grade Parade (Book 1) – 3.13.11
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off – 5.12.11
Fantasy and Science Fiction (Middle Grades)
The Call (The Magnificent 12) – 2.8.11
The Dead Boys – 7.3.11
Dragonbreath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs – 4.9.11
Fever Crumb – 9.29.11
Ninth Ward – 9.15.11
Reckless – 12.13.11
The Shadows (The Books of Elsewhere Volume 1) – 3.27.11
Fantasy and Science Fiction (Young Adult)
Brain Jack – 2.15.11
Guardian of the Dead – 10.30.11
Plain Kate – 9.23.11
Pod – 11.25.11
Rot & Ruin – 3.27.11
Ship Breaker – 11.29.11
The Wager – 12.2.11
Fiction Picture Books
A Beach Tail – 9/11/11
Chalk – 9/11/11
The Cow Loves Cookies – 9/11/11
Flora’s Very Windy Day – 9/11/11
Interrupting Chicken – 9/11/11
Shark vs Train – 11.4.11
A Sick Day for Amos McGee – 10.23.11
Graphic Novels (Middle Grade)
Athena: Grey Eyed Goddess – 7.1.11
Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye: Hamster and Cheese – 7.2.11
Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities – 5.12.11
Smile – 5.12.11
The Unsinkable Walker Bean – 3.13.11
Graphic Novels (Young Adult)
Ghostopolis – 3.4.11
Mercury – 7.2.11
The Night Owls (Vol. 1) – 12.29.11
Twin Spica (Vol. 1) – 2.5.11
Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty – 6.9.11
Middle Grade Fiction
Because of Mr Terupt – 4.10.11
Belly Up – 10.14.11
Betti on the High Wire – 3.1.11
Crunch – 10.16.11
Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze – 11.20.11
The Kneebone Boy – 11.14.11
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda – 3.28.11
Nonfiction (Middle Grade and YA)
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories – 3.7.11
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe – 11.26.11
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot – 11.25.11
Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing – 10.22.11
Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook – 11.19.11
Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania – 11.18.11
An Unspeakable Crime: Persecution and Prosecution of Leo Frank – 11.27.11
Nonfiction (Picture Books)
Bones – 11.4.11
Dinosaur Mountain: Digging into the Jurassic Age – 11.5.11
Henry Aaron’s Dream – 10.22.11
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum – 10.22.11
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down – 11.5.11
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald – 10.23.11
The Extraordinary Mark Twain (According to Susy) – 10.22.11
Poetry
Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie and Their Daughters – 2.5.11
Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night – 11.3.11
Mirror Mirror: a Book of Reversible Verse – 10.23.11
Scarum Fair – 10.9.11
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems
Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors – 10.9.11
Young Adult Fiction
Dirt Road Home – 3.23.11
Harmonic Feedback – 9.17.11
I Now Pronounce You Someone Else – 10.11.11
Scrawl – 11.09.11
Some Girls Are – 9.14.11
Split – 10.09.11
Stolen – 2.7.11
I’ll be reading all the YA books. 😉