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BBYA Nominations for August 1, 2002

From: Peter Butts <pbutts>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:58:43 -0400

As of August 1, 2002, one hundred and thirty-one books have been nominated for Best Books for Young Adults. Books will be discussed at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia this winter.

New nominations are posted on the first of each month throughout the year.

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


July Nominations for Best Books 2003
(Alphabetical by author or collection title)


Almond, David. Secret Heart. Random House/Delacorte (085r947-2; 085?065-1 lib.)

Alphin, Elaine Marie. Simon Says. Harcourt (0!6355-7)

Avi. Crispin: The Cross of Lead. Hyperion (0x6828-4; 0x68&47-9 lib.)

Bauer, Joan. Stand Tall. Penguin Putnam/G.P. Putnam's Sons (099#473-X)

Card, Orson Scott. Shadow Puppets. Tom Doherty/TOR (0v50017-6)

Chambers, Aidan. Postcards from No Man's Land. Penguin Putnam/Dutton (0R5F863-3)

Disher, Garry. The Divine Wind: A Love Story. Scholastic/ Arthur A. Levine (0C96915-0)

Fiedler, Lisa. Dating Hamlet: Ophelia's Story. Henry Holt (0?50p54-0)

Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science. Houghton Mifflin (0a8252-6 lib.)

Frank, Hillary. Better Than Running at Night. Houghton Mifflin (0a8439-9; 0a8%073-5 pb)

Gaiman, Neil; Dave McKean, il. Coraline. HarperCollins (080?778-8; 0b3744-0 lib.)

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Pictures of Hollis Woods. Random House/Wendy Lamb (0852655-6; 085?070-8 lib.)

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, ed.; Charles Vess, il. Penguin Putnam/Viking (0g0526-2)

Hartnett, Sonya. Thursday's Child. Candlewick Press (0v3620-6)

Lorimer, Sara. Susan Synarski, il. Booty: Female Pirates on the High Seas. Chronicle Books (0?18237-6 pb)

Malone, Patricia. The Legend of Lady Ilena. Random House/Delacorte (085r915-4; 085?030-9 lib.)

McLaughlin, Emma; and Nicola Kraus. The Nanny Diaries. St. Martin's Press (012'858-6)

Nelson, Peter. Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis. Random House/Delacorte (085r959-6; 085?033-3 lib.)

Orgill, Roxane. Mahalia: A Life in Gospel Music. Candlewick (0v3611-9)

Plum-Ucci, Carol. What Happened to Lani Garver. Harcourt (0!6813-3)

Salisbury, Graham. Island Boyz: Short Stories. Random House/Wendy Lamb (085r970-7)

Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones: a novel. Little, Brown (016f634-3)

Seeing the Blue Between: Advice and Inspiration for Young Poets. Paul B.

Janeczko, ed. Candlewick Press (0v3681-5)

Slade, Arthur. Tribes. Random House/Wendy Lamb (085s003-9)

Spinner, Stephanie. Quiver. Random House/Alfred A. Knopf (075?489-2)

Zettel, Sarah. A Sorcerer's Treason: A Novel of Isavalta. Tom Doherty/TOR (012?441-3)



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