The day starts early, 8AM and will end when we finish the final vote, determine the Top Ten, and write snappy annotations for each book that makes the list. We will start with pleas for specific titles. Like I mentioned yesterday, I pleaded for the following titles: Found Photos: Rear Ends (absolutely hilarious look at people's booty- and it is definitive proof that plaid pants should never, ever be worn), this one was well-loved by our reluctant readers; the 50 cent books, DC Covergirls (a large book featuring the DC Comics heroines from old school Wonder Woman to the gals featured in Birds of Prey); and the two vampire novels by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast, Marked and Betrayed (House of Night novels).
My pleas for all but the 50 Cent books were successful. Overall, I am quite pleased with the success of my nominations. This list is huge-- 114 titles. I think that we have about 15 too many- a few books that just don't qualify as Quick Picks. They have way too many pages with questionable covers. But I was out-voted on these.
Our Top Ten is great! We have five fiction and 5 non-fiction titles.
Top Ten Quick Picks for Young Adult Readers
Bey, Dawoud. Class Pictures. 2007
Erskine, Kathryn. Quaking. 2007
Greenfield, Lauren. Thin. 2006
Grody, Steve and James Prigoff. Graffiti L.A.: Street and Art. 2007.
Hopkins, Ellen. Glass. 2007.
Jamal, Joesph. Tupac Shakur Legacy. 2006.
Shaw, Susan. Safe. 2007.
Shusterman, Neil. Unwind. 2007.
Sitomer, Alan L. Homeboyz. 2007.
Thalia. Thalia: Belleza!: Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness. 2007.
To see the complete list go to: http://ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/quickpicks/08qp.cfm
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