Cybils Shortlist Challenge for 2014

I’ve been reloading the Cybils blog for HOURS waiting for the list to appear and now the wait is over. Here are the finalists and I’m off to reserve a few at the library right now.

Easy Readers
Clara and Clem Under the Sea
Extraordinary Warren: Super Chicken
Inch and Roly and the Sunny Day Scare
My New Friend Is So Fun!
Okay, Andy!
Pigsticks and Harold and the Incredible Journey
The Ice Cream Shop (Scholastic Reader Level 1)

Early Chapters
Dory Fantasmagory
Like Carrot Juice on a Cupcake
Lulu and the Rabbit Next Door
Lulu’s Mysterious Mission
The Chicken Squad: The First Misadventure
The Lion Who Stole My Arm
Violet Mackerel’s Possible Friend

Fiction Picture Books
Brimsby’s Hats
Here Comes the Easter Cat
Knock, Knock: My Dad’s Dream for Me
Maple
Shhhh! We Have a Plan
This is a Moose

Graphic Novels for Early & Middle Grades
Bad Machinery: The Case of the Good Boy
Bird and Squirrel on Ice
El Deafo
Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
The Dumbest Idea Ever
Ballad

Graphic Novels for Young Adults
In Real Life
Strange Fruit (Volume 1)
The Harlem Hellfighters
The Shadow Hero
Through the Woods
To This Day: For the Bullied and the Beautiful

Middle Grade Fiction
Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood
All Four Stars
Death By Toilet Paper
Ice Dogs
Nickel Bay Nick
The Crossover
The Meaning of Maggie

Non-Fiction for Early & Middle Grades
Chasing Cheetahs
Handle with Care: An Unusual Butterfly Journey
The Case of the Vanishing Little Brown Bats
Alice + Freda Forever
Be A Changemaker
Beyond Magenta
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
The Family Romanov
The Freedom Summer Murders
The Port Chicago 50

Poetry
Brown Girl Dreaming
Dear Wandering Wildebeest and Other Poems From the Water Hole
Firefly July
Hi, Koo!: A Year of Seasons
Santa Clauses
Voices From the March on Washington
Water Rolls, Water Rises Water Rolls, Water Rises

Speculative Fiction for Early & Middle Grades
Boys of Blur
Greenglass House
Nuts to You
The Castle Behind Thorns
The Jupiter Pirates: The Hunt for Hydra
The Luck Uglies
The Swallow

Speculative Fiction for Young Adults
Death Sworn
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future
Noggin
Salvage
The Living
The Winners Curse
While We Run

Young Adult Fiction
Gabi, A Girl In Pieces
Girls Like Us
I’ll Give You The Sun
Pointe
When I Was The Greatest