From: Peter Butts <pbutts>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 08:32:32 -0500

As of April 1, 2002, forty-four books have been nominated for Best Books

for Young Adults. New nominations are posted on the first of each month

throughout the year.

A complete list of nominations is available on the YALSA website: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklists/bbya/.

Nominations from the field are encouraged. Please visit the YALSA Best Books website for details, including the policies and procedures. Books

must be published between Sept. 1, 2001 and Dec. 31, 2002 to be eligible for BBYA, although field nominations may only come from titles published in 2002.

If you or your teens would like to comment about any of the nominated titles, please send your comments to one of us and they will be shared with the BBYA committee.

Thanks!

Cindy Dobrez, Librarian BBYA 2003 Chairperson Harbor Lights Middle School 3600 N. 152nd Ave. Holland, MI 49424 616s8h84 dobrez at novagate.com

Peter Butts BBYA 2003 Administrative Assistant East Middle School 373 E. 24th St. Holland, MI 49423 616I4$75 pbutts at edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu


March Nominations for Best Books 2003 (#32D) (Alphabetical by author or collection title)

Bardi, Abby. The Book of Fred: A Novel. Pocket Books/Washington Square Press (0t3493-5)

Brooks, Bruce. Dolores. Harper Collins (07818-8; 09473-6 library)

Clements, Andrew. Things Not Seen. Penguin Putnam/Philomel Books (099#626-0)

Hettinga, Donald R. The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy. Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books(0a8599-1)

Heuston, Kimberley. The Shakeress. Front Street (1?6910V-1)

Hobbs, Valerie. Tender. Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Frances Foster Books (0747397-3)

Hrdlitschka, Shelley. Dancing Naked. Orca Book Publishers (1U14210-2)

Koja, Kathe. Straydog. Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Frances Foster Books (0747278-0)

Leavitt, Martine. The Dollmage. Red Deer Press (0?995#3-7)

McCaughrean, Geraldine. The Kite Rider. HarperCollins (0b3874-9; 0b3875-7 library)

Mullen, P. H. Gold in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream of Olympic Glory. St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne Books (012&595-6)

Nathan, Amy. Yankee Doodle Gals: Women Pilots of World War II. National Geographic Society (0y22?16-7)

Powell, Randy. Three Clams and an Oyster. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (0747526-7)

Wittlinger, Ellen. The Long Night of Leo and Bree. Simon & Schuster (0h9?564-7)

Yumoto, Kazumi. The Letters. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (0744383-7)





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