(To be read)
Briefly compiled from the award lists (mostly) and other sources of buzzworthy youth books in 2007. All together now: you haven’t READ that yet? No; I haven’t read that yet.
Sis, Peter – The Wall
Curtis, Christopher – Elijah of Buxton
Freedman, Russell – Who Was First?
Thompson, Kate – The New Policeman
Downham, Jenny – Before I Die
Schmidt, Gary – The Wednesday Wars
Selznick, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Brooks, Martha – Mistik Lake
Dowd, Siobhan – A Swift Pure Cry
Hemphill, Stephanie – Your Own, Sylvia
Lanagan, Margo – Red Spikes
McCaughrean, Geraldine – The White Darkness
Tarshis, Lauren – Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out Of A Tree
Knox, Elizabeth – Dreamquake
Wilce, Ysabeau – Flora Segunda
Woodson, Jacqueline – Feathers
Bernier-Grand, Carmen – Frida: Viva La Vida!
Willems, Mo – There Is A Bird On Your Head!
Polly, Matthew – American Shaolin
Ruff, Matt – Bad Monkeys
Clarke, Judith – One Whole and Perfect Day
Jenkins, A.M. – Repossessed
Beah, Ishmael – A Long Way Gone
Jones, Lloyd – Mister Pip
Landy, Derek – Skullduggery Pleasant
2 responses so far ↓
mjj // February 28, 2008 at 9:49 pm
But you *have* read McCaughrean’s The White Darkness. It was your rec made me read it back in November of 2006.
swarmofbeasts // February 29, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I can only think that it must have been another book, or another person’s rec; that’s a book I know I wouldn’t have read and forgotten.
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