Sherman Alexie on Colbert

I like the part where Colbert is speechless. And the other parts, too.



Thanks RGZ!

2008 Cybils Nominations: Young Adult Novels

The inaugural year we had 80 titles in YA Fiction. Last year we had 123. This year? 135.

Props to Sheila Ruth who's made a beautiful database that pops out such wonderful lists (among other things) that makes everything so. much. easier.

For all the lists, head here.

A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
written by Valerie Zenatti
Bloomsbury USA

A La Carte
written by Tanita S. Davis
Random House Children's Books

Absolute Brightness
written by James Lecesne
HarperCollins

After Tupac and D Foster
written by Jacqueline Woodson
Putnam YA

Alive and Well in Prague, New York
written by Daphne Grab
HarperCollins

Amor and Summer Secrets
written by Diana Rodriguez Wallach
Kensington Publishing Corporation

Apprentice's Masterpiece, The
written by Melanie Little
Annick Press

Artichoke's Heart
written by Suzanne Supplee
Penguin USA

Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II : The Kingdom on the Waves
written by M.T. Anderson
Candlewick Press

Audrey, Wait!
written by Robin Benway
Penguin USA

Aurelia
written by Anne Osterlund
Penguin USA

Bog Child
written by Siobhan Dowd
Random House Children's Books

Box Out
written by John Coy
Scholastic

Boy Who Dared, The
written by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Scholastic

Child of Dandelions
written by Shenaaz Nanji
Boyds Mills Press

Cleavage: Breakaway Fiction for Real Girls
edited by Deb Loughead
and Jocelyn Shipley
Sumach Press

Climbing the Stairs
written by Padma Venkatraman
Penguin USA

Comeback Season, The
written by Jennifer E. Smith
Simon & Schuster

Crossing the Line
written by Dianne Bates
Hybrid Publishers

Cruel Summer
written by Alyson Noel
Macmillan

Daughter of War
written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.

Day I Killed James, The
written by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Random House Children's Books

Death of Jayson Porter, The
written by Jaime Adoff
Hyperion

Debbie Harry Sings in French
written by Meagan Brothers
Henry Holt

Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The
written by E Lockhart
Hyperion

Dooley Takes the Fall
written by Norah McClintock
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.

Down Sand Mountain
written by Steve Watkins
Candlewick Press

Down to the Bone
written by Mayra Lazara Dole
HarperCollins

Empty Kingdom, The
written by Elizabeth E. Wein
Penguin USA

Everything You Want
written by Barbara Shoup
Llewellyn

Fact of Life #31
written by Denise Vega
Random House Children's Books

Fancy White Trash
written by Marjetta Geerling
Penguin USA

Feathered
written by Laura Kasischke
HarperCollins

Fold, The
written by An Na
Penguin USA

Forever Changes
written by Brendan Halpin
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

Fortunes of Indigo Skye
written by Deb Caletti
Simon & Schuster

Freefall
written by Anna Levine
HarperCollins

Freeze Frame
written by Heidi Ayarbe
HarperCollins

Getting the Girl
written by Susan Juby
HarperCollins

Ghost Medicine
written by Andrew Smith
Feiwel & Friends

Ghost's Child, The
written by Sonya Hartnett
Candlewick Press

Girl Overboard
written by Justina Chen Headley
Little, Brown

Girl, Hero
written by Carrie Jones
Flux

Give Me Truth
written by Bill Condon
Random House Australia

Good Enough
written by Paula Yoo
HarperCollins

Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
written by Sherri L. Smith
Random House Children's Books

House of Dance, The
written by Beth Kephart
HarperCollins

House of Djinn, The
written by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

How Not to Be Popular
written by Jennifer Ziegler
Random House Children's Books

How They Met, and Other Stories
written by David Levithan
Random House Children's Books

How To Be Bad
written by E. Lockhart
and Sarah Mlynowski
and Lauren Myracle
HarperCollins

How to Build a House
written by Dana Reinhardt
Random House Children's Books

How to Hook a Hottie
written by Tina Ferraro
Random House Children's Books

Hurricane Song
written by Paul Volponi
Penguin USA

I Am Apache
written by Tanya Landman
Candlewick Press

I Heart You, You Haunt Me
written by Lisa Schroeder
Simon & Schuster

I Kiss Girls
written by Gina Harris
Prizm

I know It's Over
written by C. K. Kelly Martin
Random House Children's Books

I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
written by Stephanie Kuehnert
Simon & Schuster

Identical
written by Ellen Hopkins
Simon & Schuster

In Ecstasy
written by Kate McCaffrey
Fremantle Press

Isabelle's Boyfriend
written by Caroline Hickey
Henry Holt

Jellicoe Road
written by Melina Marchetta
HarperCollins

Jump the Cracks
written by Stacy DeKeyser
Flux

Keeping the Night Watch
written by Hope Anita Smith
illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Henry Holt

Kendra
written by Coe Booth
Scholastic

La Petite Four
written by Regina Scott
Penguin USA

Last Exit to Normal, The
written by Michael Harmon
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine, The
written by April Lurie
Random House Children's Books

Leftovers
written by Laura Weiss
MTV

Libertad
written by Alma Fullerton
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.

Living Dead Girl
written by Elizabeth Scott
Simon & Schuster

Lock and Key
written by Sarah Dessen
Penguin USA

Locker Shock
written by Pamela Ripling
Quake

Looks
written by Madeleine George
Viking

Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape)
written by Carrie Jones
Llewellyn

Love and Lies: Marisol's Story
written by Ellen Wittlinger
Simon & Schuster

Love Laws
written by Mary Muhammad
Lulu.com

Lucky
written by Rachel Vail
HarperCollins

Lucky Ones, The
written by Stephanie Greene
Greenwillow Books

Lucky Place, The
written by Zu Vincent
Boyds Mills Press

Madapple
written by Christina Meldrum
Random House Children's Books

Me, the Missing, and the Dead
written by Jenny Valentine
HarperCollins

Mexican WhiteBoy
written by Matt de la Peña
Random House Children's Books

Mousetraps
written by Pat Schmatz
illustrated by Bill Hauser
Lerner Publishing Group

My Life as a Rhombus
written by Varian Johnson
Flux

My Most Excellent Year
written by Steve Kluger
Penguin USA

My Mother Is a French Fry and Further Proof of My Fuzzed-Up Life
written by Colleen Sydor
Kids Can Press, Ltd

Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole
written by Micco Mann
Palmetto Bug Books (Lulu)

O.Y.L.
written by Scott Heydt
Helm Publishing

Opposite of Invisible, The
written by Liz Gallagher
Random House Children's Books

Ordinary Me
written by June Sproat
The Wild Rose Press

Out of the Pocket
written by Bill Konigsberg
Penguin USA

Patron Saint of Butterflies, The
written by Cecilia Galante
Bloomsbury USA

Perfect Cover
written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Laurel-Leaf

Perfect You
written by Elizabeth Scott
Simon & Schuster

Play Me
written by Laura Ruby
HarperCollins

Possibilities of Sainthood, The
written by Donna Freitas
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux

Primavera
written by Mary Jane Beaufrand
Little, Brown

Prom Kings and Drama Queens
written by Dorian Cirrone
HarperCollins

Quest
written by Kathleen Benner Duble
Simon & Schuster

Redheaded Princess
written by Ann Rinaldi
HarperCollins

Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
written by Jen Bryant
Random House Children's Books

Run Like Jager
written by Karen Bass
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.

Screwed up Life of Charlie the Second, The
written by Drew Ferguson
Kensington Publishing Corporation

Seaborn
written by Craig Moodie
Henry Holt

Season of Ice
written by Diane Les Becquets
Bloomsbury USA

Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez, The
written by Alan Lawrence Sitome
Hyperion

Shape of Water, The
written by Anne Spollen
Flux

Shift
written by Jennifer Bradbury
Simon & Schuster

Shifty
written by Lynn E. Hazen
Ten Speed Press

Sister Wife
written by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Orca Books

Sisters of Misery
written by Megan Kelley Hall
Kensington Publishing Corporation

Skin Deep
written by E. M. Crane
Bantam Books

Sovay
written by Celia Rees
Bloomsbury USA

Split by a Kiss
written by Luisa Plaja
Corgi Childrens

Suite Scarlett
written by Maureen Johnson
Scholastic

Sunrise over Fallujah
written by Walter Dean Myers
Scholastic

Sweethearts
written by Sara Zarr
Little, Brown

Swimming with the Sharks
written by Debbie Reed Fischer
Flux

Ten Cents a Dance
written by Christine Fletcher
Bloomsbury USA

That's What's Up!
written by Paula Chase
Dafina

Thaw
written by Monica Roe
Boyds Mills Press

They Called Me Red
written by Christina Kilbourne
Lobster Press

Trouble
written by Gary D. Schmidt
Clarion Books

Twisted Sisters
written by Stephanie Hale
Penguin USA

Undone
written by Brooke Taylor
Walker Books for Young Readers

Unraveling
written by Michelle Baldini
and Lynn Biederman
Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

Violet in Private
written by Melissa Walker
Penguin USA

Voss: How I Come to America and Am Hero, Mostly
written by David Ives
Penguin USA

Weeping Under This Same Moon
written by Jana Laiz
Crow Flies Press

What Happens Here
written by Tara Altebrando
Simon & Schuster

Would You
written by Marthe Jocelyn
Wendy Lamb Books

Writing on the Wall, The
written by Wendy Lichtman
HarperCollins

You Know Where to Find Me
written by Rachel Cohn
Simon & Schuster


If you don't see your nomination check a different category. If you still don't see your nomination then your book may have been ruled ineligible for one or more reasons including publication date (it needed to be published between Jan. 1-Oct. 15, 2008). Feel free to email me if you have any questions. My email can be found on the sidebar to the right.