This is amazing good news. Great news, in fact. I’m happy and proud to say that my book, Bystander, is included on the ballot for the 2012 New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award.
To learn more about the award, and to download a ballot or bookmark, please click here.
The voting is broken down into four categories and includes forty books. Bystander is in the “Grades 6-8/Middle School” category. Really, it’s staggering. There are ten books in this category out of literally an infinity of titles published each year. You do the math, people.
For more background stories on Bystander — that cool “insider info” you can only find on the interwebs! — please click here (bully memory) and here (my brother John) and here (Nixon’s dog, Checkers) and here (the tyranny of silence).
Below please find all the books on the ballot — congratulations, authors & illustrators! I’m honored to be in your company.
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GRADES pre K-2/PRIMARY
Bubble Trouble . . . Margaret Mahy/Polly Dunbar
City Dog, Country Frog . . . Mo Willems/Jon J Muth
Clever Jack Takes the Cake . . . Candace Fleming/G. Brian Karas
Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes . . . Margie Palatini/Barry Moser
Memoirs of a Goldfish . . . Devin Scillian/Tim Bower
Otis . . . Loren Long
Stars Above Us . . . Geoffrey Norman/E.B. Lewis
That Cat Can’t Stay . . . Thad Krasnesky/David Parkins
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! . . . April Pulley Sayre/Annie Patterson
We Planted a Tree . . . Diane Muldrow/Bob Staake
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GRADES 3-5/INTERMEDIATE
The Can Man . . . Laura E. Williams/Craig Orback L
Emily’s Fortune . . . Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Family Reminders . . . Julie Danneberg/John Shelley
Fly Free! . . . Roseann Thong/Eujin Kim Neilan
Jake . . . Audrey Couloumbis
Lizards . . . Nic Bishop
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute . . . Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse . . . Marilyn Singer/Josee Massee
The Sandwich Swap . . . Queen Rania of Jordan & Kelly DiPucchio/Tricia Tusa
Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride . . . Andrea Pinkney/Brian Pinkney
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GRADES 6-8/MIDDLE SCHOOL
All the Broken Pieces . . . Ann E. Burg
Bystander . . . James Preller
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. . . . Kate Messner
Candy Bomber . . . Michael Tunnell
Cleopatra Rules! . . . Vicky Alvear Shecter
How to Survive Middle School . . . Donna Gephart
January’s Sparrow . . . Patricia Polacco
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook . . . Eleanor Davis
Slob . . . Ellen Potter
A Tale Dark & Grimm . . . Adam Gidwitz
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GRADES 9-12/HIGH SCHOOL
Beautiful Creatures . . . Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
The Chosen One . . . Carol Lynch Williams
The Maze Runner . . . James Dashner
North of Beautiful . . . Justina Chen Headley
The Notorious Benedict Arnold . . . Steven Sheinkin
The Sweetheart of Prosper County . . . Jill S. Alexander
The Things a Brother Knows . . . Dana Reinhardt
Trash . . . Andy Mulligan
Truce . . . Jim Murphy
The Year of Goodbyes . . . Debbie Levy
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By the way, who’s Charlotte?
Illustration: Garth Williams.
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