The consultants have completed the tough job of narrowing down the nominations for the 2011 Nerds Heart YA tournament. In alphabetical order here’s our Nerds Heart YA short-list for 2011:
A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend – Emily Horner
Abe in Arms – Pegi Dietz Shea
Bamboo People – Mitali Perkins
Bleeding Violet – Dia Reeves
Dark Water – Laura McNeal
Dirty Little Secrets – CJ Omololu
Efrain’s Secret – Sofia Quintero
Eighth Grade Superzero – Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Finding Family – Tonya Bolden
Five Flavors of Dumb – Antony John
How I Made it to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story – Tracy White
Invisible Girl – Mary Hanlon Stone
Jumpstart the World – Catherine Ryan Hyde
Last Summer of the Death Warriors – Francisco Stork
Mindblind – Jennifer Roy
Paper Daughter – Jeannette Ingold
Premiere – Melody Carlson
Pull – B. A. Binns
Stargazer – Von Allan
Stringz – Michael Wenberg
Summer Song – Louise Blaydon
Tall Story – Candy Gourlay
Teenie – Christopher Grant
Tell Us We’re Home – Marina Budhos
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin – Josh Berk
The End: five Queer Kids Save the World – Nora Olsen
The Kid Table – Andrea Seigel
The Red Umbrella – Christina Gonzalez
Toads and Diamonds – Heather Tomlinson
What My Momma Left Me – Renee Watson
When The Stars Go Blue – Caridad Ferrer
Where the Truth Lies – Jessica Warman
So what do you think of the short-list? Are you excited about Nerds Heart YA 2011?
I’ll be back shortly to announce the judging schedule for the tournament and then this contest will get rolling as our judges hunker down with some quality YA to make a bunch of hard decisions. Until then please spread the word about our short-list 🙂
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May 8, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Vasilly
This looks like a really great list! I feel like reading along with the judges now. 🙂
May 8, 2011 at 11:27 pm
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May 9, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Doret
Great short list. I’ve read 18, soon to be 19. Toads and Diamonds is in my library queue. looking forward to seeing the brackets.
May 9, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Katy
Yay! I’ve been looking forward to seeing the short list!
May 10, 2011 at 2:37 am
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May 10, 2011 at 6:35 am
Jordyn
Woo!! How does a blogger get to be a judge for Nerds Heart YA?
May 10, 2011 at 7:39 am
bookgazing
Hi Jordyn – We ask for bloggers to apply as judges each year (our application process is over for this year). If you follow the RSS feed here, or our Twitter feed you’ll be sure to see when we start asking for judges in 2012.
May 10, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Heather
I’m so excited! This looks like a fantastic list. I can’t wait to get my books!
May 14, 2011 at 5:04 pm
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May 15, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Edi
Nice list, indeed!
May 17, 2011 at 12:48 am
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May 18, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Caroline Starr Rose
Isn’t Hamburger Halpin MG?
May 21, 2011 at 9:48 pm
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May 25, 2011 at 3:06 pm
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May 27, 2011 at 6:24 am
bookgazing
Hi Caroline. Our consultants didn’t think so, based on the Amazon ages (Grade 8 and up and Reading Level Young Adult). Does it feel like MG?
May 29, 2011 at 7:43 pm
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June 9, 2011 at 10:09 pm
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June 10, 2011 at 1:24 pm
rhapsodyinbooks
Every book that I *have* read on that list, I loved, so it looks like a great reading list to me, and I printed it out to use at the library!
June 22, 2011 at 12:03 pm
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