As announced today, one by one, on twitter, here are this year’s contenders:
AS EASY AS FALLING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH by Lynn Rae Perkins THE CARDTURNER by Louis Sachar A CONSPIRACY OF KINGS by Megan Whalen Turner COUNTDOWN by Deborah Wiles THE DREAMER by Pam Munoz Ryan THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE BARBIE by Tanya Lee Stone HEREVILLE: HOW MIRKA GOT HER SWORD by Barry Deutsch KEEPER by Kathi Appelt THE ODYSSEY by Gareth Hinds ONE CRAZY SUMMER by Rita Williams-Garcia THE RING OF SOLOMON by Jonathan Stroud SUGAR CHANGED THE WORLD by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos A TALE DARK AND GRIMM by Adam Gidwitz THEY CALLED THEMSELVES THE K.K.K. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti TRASH by Andy Mulligan WILL GRAYSON, WILL GRAYSON by John Green and David Levithan
