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