2010 Cybils Finalists

It’s always a lot of fun to see which books the panels picked, but *cough* if I’m being honest, the best part this year is that two of the three books I nominated made their respective shortlists.

Shortlists for all the categories are available at the Cybils site, but here are the YA-related ones.

Young Adult Fiction

• Dirt Road Home by Watt Key
• Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly
• I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan
• Scrawl by Mark Shulman
• Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
• Split by Swati Avasthi
• Stolen by Lucy Christopher

And anyone interested in serving on this panel in the future should read Kelly Jensen’s behind the scenes peek at Life on the Cybils YA Panel. I mean, I thought 120 books (or whatever the number was back in 2008) was a lot; I can’t even imagine 180+!

Fantasy & Science Fiction (YA)

• Brain Jack by Brian Falkner
• Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
• Plain Kate by Erin Bow
• Pod by Stephen Wallenfels
• Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• The Wager by Donna Jo Napoli

Graphic Novels (YA)

• Ghostopolis by Doug Tennapel
• Mercury by Hope Larson
• Night Owls Vol. 1 by Peter Timony
• Twin Spica, Volume: 01 by Kou Yaginuma
• Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri

Nonfiction (Middle Grade & YA)

• The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul Janeczko
• The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns
• Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot by Sy Montgomery
• The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain
• Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook by Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter
• Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania by Haya Leah Molnar
• An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin

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