CYBILS - JUNIOR/SENIOR NONFICTION SHORT LIST
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to serve as first round panelist for Junior/Senior High Nonfiction for the Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards or CYBILS.
For months I read, read and re-read the nominated titles. There were five panelists in my group with each person living in a different part of North America and each panelist hosting their own book review blog. Email and Google Docs were our primary modes of communication as we evaluated each book using the CYBILS criteria: literary merit and kid appeal.
After weeks of evaluating, discussing, and debating the nominated titles, our work is complete. Here is the short lists for junior/senior high nonfiction titles. (I linked each title that I reviewed in 2017) Click here to see it on the CYBILS blog
CYBILS Short List: Junior/Senior High Nonfiction (in alphabetical order)
A Dog in the Cave: the Wolves Who Made Us Human by Kay Frydenborg
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringlyimana
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton Reveal'd by Mary Losure
Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
by Heather E. Schwartz
March Against Fear : the Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement
and the Emergence of Black Power by Ann Bausum
Posion: Deadly Deeds, Perilous Professions, and Murderous Medicines
by Sarah Albee
Queer There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World
by Sarah Prager
Undefeated: Jim Thorp and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
by Steve Sheinkin
Uprooted: the Japanese American Experience During World War II
by Albert Marrin
by Deborah Heiligman
The Whydah: a Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked & Found
by Martin W. Sandler
The books on the short lists are now being evaluated by round two judges, and the winners will be annonced on Valentine's Day.
Click here to view all of the CYBILS short lists
Thanks for all the recs! I've read many of them, but more to read now :)
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