2021 ALA Awards

Newbery:

**When You Trap a Tiger (Tae Keller) 4.21 - 1177 

All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team - Soontornvat 4.69 - 356

Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom - Weatherford (picture book) 4.07 - 153

Fighting Words - Bradley 4.74 - 2473

We Dream of Space - Kelly 4.21 - 1950

A Wish in the Dark - Soontornvat 4.43 - 1064

Caldecott:

**We Are Water Protectors - Lindstrom/MICHAELA GOADE

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart - Elliott/ NOA DENMON

The Cat Man of Aleppo - Latham & Shasi-Basha/YUKO SHIMIZU

Me & Mama - COZBI A. CABRERA

Outside In - Underwood/CINDY DERBY

Coretta Scott King:

**Before the Ever After - Woodson  4.25 - 4549 ratings

Printz

** Everything Sad is Untrue (a true story) - Nayer 4.37 - 975 ratings (flees Iran)

Apple (Skin to the Core) - Gansworth 4.00 * 349 ratings (memoir in verse)

Dragon Hoops - Lang 4.47 - 2930 ratings (graphic novel)

Every Body Looking - Iloh 3.96 - 760 ratings (verse)

We Are Not Free - Chee 4.45 - 1299 ratings

Sydney Taylor (Jewish)

Middle Grades:

**Turtle Boy  - Wolkenstein 4.39 - 317 ratings

No Vacancy - Cohen 4.05 - 80 ratings

Anya and the Nightingale - Pasternack

The Blackbird Girls - Blankman 4.42 - 1130 ratings (Chernobyl)

YA:

**Dancing at the Pity Party - Feder 4.59 - 3114 ratings (cancer/death of mother)

They Went Left - Hesse 4.29 - 3915 ratings (searching for brother after Auschwitz

The Caldecott Medal

2021  We Are Water Protectors (Lindstrom/Goade)

Honors:

A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart (Elliott/Denmon)

The Cat Man of Aleppo (Latham & Shasi-Basha/Shimizu)

Me & Mama (Cabrera)

Outside Inn - Underwood (Derby)

2020 The Undefeated (Alexander/Nelson)

Honors:

Bear Came Along (Morris/Pham)

Double Bass Blues (Loney/Guiterrez)

Going Down Home With Daddy (Lyons/Minter)

2019 Hello Lighthouse (Blackall)
Honors:
Alma and How She Got Her Name (Martinez-Neal)
A Big Mooncake for Little Star (Lin)
The Rough Patch (Lies)
Thank You, Oru! (Mora)

2018  Wolf in the Snow (Cordell)
Honors:  
Big Cat Little Cat (Cooper)
Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Barnes, James)
A Different Pond (Phi/Bui)
Grand Canyon (Chin)

2017  Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Steptoe)
Honors:
Leave Me Alone (Brosgol)
Freedom in Congo Square (Westherford/Christie)
Du is Tak? (Ellis)
They All Saw a Cat (Wenzel)

2016 Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear (Mattick/Blackall)
Honors:
Trombone Shorty (Andrews/Collier)
Waiting (Henkes)
Voice of Freedom (Weatherford/Holmes)
Last Stop on Market Street (de la Pena/Robinson) WON THE NEWBERY

2015  Adventures of Beekle (Santat)
Honors:
Nana in the City (Castillo)
Noisy Paint Box (Rosenstock/GrandPre)
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Barnett/Klassen)
Viva Frida (Morales/O'Meara)
The Right Word: Roget and his Thesaurus (Bryant/Sweet)
This One Summer (Tamaki)

2014 Locomotive (Floca)
Honors:
Journey (Becker)
Flora and the Flamingo (Idle)
Mr. Wuffles! (Wiesner)

2013 This is Not My Hat (Klassen)
Honors:  
Creepy Carrots! (Reynolds/Brown)
Extra Yarn (Barnett/Klassen)
Green (Seeger)
One Cool Friend (Buzzeo/Small)
Sleep Like a Tiger (Logue/Zagarenski)

2012 A Ball for Daisy (Raschka)
Honors: 
Me...Jane (McDonnell)
Blackout (Rocco)
Grandpa Green (Smith)

2011 A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Stead P/Stead E)
Honors:
Dave the Potter (Hill/Collier)
Interrupting Chicken (Stein)

2010 Lion & the Mouse (Pinkney)
Honors:  All the World (Scanlon/Frazee)
Red Sings from Treetops (Sidman/Zagarenski)

2009 The House in the Night (Swanson/Krommes)
Honors:
How I learned Geography (Shulevitz)
A River of Words:  The Story of William Carlos Williams (Bryant/Sweet)
A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever (Frazee)

2008 The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Selznick)
Honors:
Henry's Freedom Box (Levine/Nelson)
First the Egg (Seeger)
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Willems)
The Wall:  Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Sis)

2007  Flotsam (Wiesner)
Honors:
Gone Wild (McLimans)
Moses: When Harriet 'Tubman Lead Her People to Freedom (Weatherford/Nelson)

2006 The Hello, Goodbye Window (Juster/Raschka)
Honors:
Rosa (Giovanni/Collier)
Zen Shorts (Muth)
Song of the Water Boatman (Sidman/Prange)
Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot Air Balloon Ride (Priceman)

2005 Kitten's First Full Moon  (Henkes)
Honors:
The Red Book (Lehman)
Coming Home Soon (Woodson/Lewis)
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (Willems)

2004  The Man Who Walked Between Two Towers (Gersstein)
Honors:
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed (Chodos-Irvine)
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (Willems)
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? (Jenkins)

2003 My Friend Rabbit (Rhomann)
Honors:
The Spider and the Fly (Howitt/DiTerlizzi)
Hondo & Fabian (McCarty)
Noah's Ark (Pinkney)

2002  The Three Pigs (Wiesner)
Honors:
Martin's Big Words (Rappaport/Collier)
The Stray Dog (Simont)
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins (Kerley/Selznik)

2001 So You Want to be President? (St. George/Small)
Honors:
Casey at the Bat (Thayer/Bing)
Olivia (Falconer)
Click, Clack, Moo:  Cows That Type (Cronin/Lewin)

2000 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Taback)
Honors:
A Child's Calendar (Updike/Human)
Sector 7 (Wiesner)
The Ugly Duckling (Pinkney)
When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry (Bang)

1999 Snowflake Bentley (Martin/Azarian)
Honors:
No, David! (Shannon)
Snow (Shulevitz)
Tibet Through the Red Box (Sis)
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince & His Orchestra

1998 Rapunzel (Zelinsky)
Honor:
The Gardener (Stewart/Small)
Harlem: a Poem (Myers W/Myers C)
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ()Taback)

1997 Golem (Wisniewski)
Honors:
Hush! A Thai Lullaby (Ho/Meade)
The Graphic Alphabet (Pelletier)
The Paperboy (Pilkey)
Starry Messenger (Sis)

1996 Officer Buckle and Gloria (Rathmann)
Honors:
Alphabet City (Johnson)
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin (Moss/Priceman)
The Fairhful Friend (San Souci/Pinkney)
Tops & Bottoms (Stevens)

1995 Smoky Night (Bunting/Diaz)
Honors:
John Henry (Lester/Pinkney)
Swamp Angel (Isaacs/Zelinsky)
Time Flies (Rohmann)

1994 Grandfather's Journey (Say)
Honors:
Peppe the Lamplighter (Bartone, Lewin)
In the Small, Small Pond (Fleming)
Owen (Henkes)
You! Yes? (Raschka)
Raven: A Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest (McDermott)

1993 Mirette on the High Wire (McCully)
Honors:
Seven Blind Mice (Young)
Working Cotton (Williams/Bayard)
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Scieszka/Smith)

1992  Tuesday (Wiesner)
Honor:
Tar Beach (Ringgold)

1991 Black and White (Macaulay)
Honors:
Puss in Boots (Perrault/Marcellino)
"More More More, " Said the Baby (Williams)

1990  Lon Po Po (Young)
Honors:
Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Peet)
Color Zoo (Ehlert)
The Talking Eggs: A Folktale fromt he American South (San Souci/Pinkney)
Hershel and the Hanukkah Gobllin (Kimmel)

2018 Golden Globes

We'll find out on January 6th which of these will win a Golden Globe:

Best Motion Picture

     Black Panther

     BlackKlansman

     Bohemian Rhapsody

     If Beale Street Could Talk- (not coming out until 12/14 and with limited release at that!)

     A Star is Born

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

     Crazy Rich Asians

     The Favourite (Although it came out on 11/23, it's a limited release and I've not seen it anywhere....)

     Green Book (Just came out)

     Mary Poppins Returns (coming out 12/19/18)

     Vice (Wide release on Christmas day)

Best Motion Picture - Animated

     Incredibles

     Isle of Dogs

     Mirai

     Ralph Breaks the Internet

     Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language

     Capernaum

     Girl

     Never Look Away

     Roma

     Shoplifters

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

     Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born)

     Willem Defoe (At Eternity's Gate) (limited release 11/16 - about VanGogh)

     Lucas Hedges (Boy Erased)

     Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody)

     John David Washington (Blackkklansman)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

     Christian Bale (Vice)

     Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns)

     Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)

     Robert Redford (The Old Man and the Gun)

     John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

     Mahershala Ali (Green Book)

     Timothee Chalamet (Beautiful Boy)

     Adam Driver (Blackkklansman)

     Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) (limited release on 10/19 - haven't seen it showing is this corner of the world....)

     Sam Rockwell (Vice)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

     Glenn Close (The Wife)

     Lady Gaga (A Star is Born)

     Nicole Kidman (Destroyer) (Limited release on Christmas day)

     Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)

     Rosamund Pike (A Private War) (wide release 11/16, but not around here!)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

     Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns)     

     Olivia Colman (The Favourite)

     Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)

     Charlize Theron (Tully)

     Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

     Amy Adams (Vice)

     Claire Foy (First Man)

     Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)

     Emma Stone (The Favourite)

     Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

Best Director - Motion Picture

     Bradley Coopoer - A Star is Born

     Alfonso Cuaron - Roma

     Peter Farrelly - Green Book

     Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

     Adam McKay - Vice

YA National Book Award 2017

I got looking at the longlist, then the shortlist, of the National Book Award nominees for 2017, and wondered how they correlate with other awards, such as the Printz and maybe even the Newbery AND how they "match up" to what Goodreads readers feel about them.  So, as part of that investigation, I thought I would look at this year's list:

*Shortlisted books are highlighted in yellow.
Goodreads ratings as of 10/6/17 follow each title

Arnold, Elana K.: What Girls Are Made Of (3.77 - 332 ratings)
Benway, Robin:  Far from the Tree (4.48 - 332 ratings
Mabry, Samantha:  All the Wind in the World (3.63 - 84 ratings
Perkins, Mitali:  You Bring the Distant Near (4.26 - 218 ratings)
Reynolds:  Long Way Down (4.60 - 376 ratings)  Free Verse
Sanchez, Erika L.: I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter ((3.92 - 75 ratings)
Snyder, Laurel: Orphan Island (3.82 - 1577 ratings)
Thomas, Angie: The Hate U Give (4.61 - 49,661 ratings)
Williams-Garcia: Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (3.99 - 459 ratings)
Zoboi, Ibi: American Street (4.03 - 2770 ratings)

2015 Edgar Nominees

BEST NOVEL
This Dark Road to Mercy - Wiley Cash
Wolf - Mo Hayder
Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King
The Final Silence - Stuart Neville
Saints of the Shadow Bible - Ian Rankin
Coptown - Karin Slaughter

FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Dry Bones in the Valley - Tom Bouman
Invisible City - Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury - Allen Eskens
Bad Country - C. B. McKenzie
Shovel Ready - Adam Sternbergh
Murder at the Brightwell - Ashley Weaver

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Secret History of Las Vegas - Chris Abani
Stay With Me - Alison Gaylin
The Barkeep - William Lashner
The Day She Died - Catriona McPherson
The Gone Dead Train - Lisa Turner
World of Trouble - Ben H. Winters

YOUNG ADULT
The Doubt Factory - Paolo Bacigalupi
Nearly Gone - Elle Cosimano
Fake ID - Lamar Giles
The Art of Secrets - James Klise
The Prince of Venice Beach - Blake Nelson

Book Awards

This actually makes a great TBR list of kid's books!
(And this is Muddy Puddle's 1500th Blog!)

2015 Newbery Medal
Winner:  Last Stop on Market Street - Matt de la Pena
Honor:  Roller Girl - Victoria Jamieson
Honor - Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan

2015 Caldecott Award
Winner:  Finding Winnie:  The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear - by Lisa Mattick and illustrated by Sophie Blackall
Honor:  Trombone Shorty - Andrews/Collier
Honor:  Waiting - Kevin Henkes
Honor:  Voice of Freedom:  Fannie Louflame - Weatherford/
Honor - Laswt Stop on Market Street - de la Pena/Christian Robinson

2015 Printz Award
Winner:  Bone Gap - Laura Ruby
Honor: Out of Darkness - Perez
Honor:  The Ghosts of Heaven; Sedgwick

2014 Newbery Award
Winner: The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
Honor:  El Deafo - Cece Bell
Honor: Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson

2014 Caldecott Award
Winner: The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend (written & illustrated by Dan Santat)
Honor:  Nana in the City (written & illustrated by Lauren Castillo)
Honor:  The Noisy Paintbox: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art (illustrated by Mary Grandpre, written by Barb Rosenstock)
Honor: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett)
Honor:  Viva Frida (written & illustrated by Yuyi Morales)
Honor:  The Right Word: Roget & His Thesaurus (illustrated by Melissa Sweet, written by Jen Bryant)
Honor:  This One Summer (illustrated by Jillian Tamaki, written by Mariko Tamaki)

2014 Printz Award
Winner:  I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Honor:  And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
Honor:  The Carnival at Bray - Jessie Ann Foley
Honor:  Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Honor:  This One Summer - Mariko Tamaki

2014 Cybil Finalists for Middle Grade Fiction
Abby Spencer Goes Bollywood - Varsha Bajaj
All Four Stars - Tara Dairman
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Ice Dogs - Terry Lynn Johnson
Nickel Bay Nick - Dean Pitchford
The Crossover - Kwame Alexander
The Meaning of Maggie - Megan Jean Sovern
Speculative Fiction for Elementary & Middle Grades
Boys of Blur - N. D. Wilson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Nuts to You - Lynne Rae Perkins
The Castle Behind Thorns - Merrie Haskell
The Jupiter Pirates - Hunt for the Hydra
The Luck Uglies - Paul Durham
The Swallow: A Ghost Story - Charis Cotter

2014 Cybil Finalists for YA Fiction
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
Girls Like Us - Gail Giles
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Speculative Fiction for YA Fiction
Death Sworn - Leah Cypess
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Salvage - Alexandra Duncan
The Living - Matt De la Pena
The Winner's Curse - Marie Rutkoski
While We Run - Karen Healey

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction

Absolutely Almost - Lisa Graff
Boys Blurr - N. D. Wilson
Circa Now - Amber McRee Turner
Courage for Beginners - Karen Harrington
Dash - Kirby Larson
Death by Toilet Paper - Donna Gephart
Five, Six, Seven, Nate - Tim Federle
The Fourteenth Goldfish - Jennifer Holm
The Great Greene Heist - Varian Johnson
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
Half a Chance - Cynthia Lord
How to Outrun a Crocodile When Your Shoes are Untied - Jess Keating
The Mark of the Dragonfly - Jaleigh Johnson
Nest - Esther Ehrlich
Nightingale's Nest - Nikki Loftin
Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin
Revolution - Deborah Wiles
A Snicker of Magic - Natalie Lloyd
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing - Sheila Turnage
The Meaning of Maggie - Jean Sovern
The Night Gardener - Jonathan Auxier
The Riverman - Aaron Starmer
The Secret Hum of a Daisy - Tracy Holzcer
The Witch's Boy - Kelly Barnhill
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie T. Lamana
West of the Moon - Margi Preus

2014 Nerdy Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction
(a great list with great summaries of each title)

Noggin - John Corey Whaley
Glory O'Brien's History of the Future - A. S. King
100 Sideways Miles - Andrew Smith
The Impossible Knife of Memory - Laurie Halse Anderson
The Secret Sky - A Novel of Forbidden Love in Afghanistan - Atia Abawi
I Kill the Mockingbird - Paul Acampora
Belzhar - Meg Wolitzer
Gabi, A Girl in Pieces - Isabel Quintero
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
The Summer of Letting Go - Gae Polisner
The Young Elites - Marie Lu
When I Was the Greatest - Jason Reynolds
Threatened - Eliot Shrefer
Afterworlds - Scott Westerfeld
Grasshopper Jungle - Andrew Smith
Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater
The Story of Owen - E. K. Johnston
Mortal Heart - Robin LaFevers
How It Went Down - Kekla Magoon
Love Letters to the Dead - Ava Dellaira
Plus One - Elizabeth Fama
To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han
Pointe - Brandy Colbert
Silver - Chris Wooding
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson
The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey

from ALA 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults (mostly 2013 dates)

The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Freakboy - Kristin Elizabeth Clark
The Golden Day - Ursula Dubosarsky
Just One Day - Gayle Forman
The Tragedy Paper - Elizabeth Laban
Scarlet - Marissa Meyer
If You Find Me - Emily Murdock
Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Language Inside - Holly Thompson
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool

YALSA Teens Top Ten 2014

1.  Splintered - A. G. Howard
2.  Monument 14 - Sky on Fire - Emmy Laybourne
3.  Earth Girl - Janet Edwards
4.  Siege and Storm - Leigh Bardugo
5.  The Eye of Minds - James Dashner

2010 Academy Award Nominations

The Academy Award Nominations were announced at 6:30 this morning (from LA, where it was 5:30). I was almost late for work, 'cause I'm really into all the movies this year. Plus I wanted to compare the Golden Globe nominations to the Oscars. Interesting. None of the five that were nominated in the Golden Globe Best Comedy/Musical category were nominated (so that excludes (500) Days of Summer, The Hangover, It's Complicated, Julie and Julia, and Nine. But since there are TEN Best Movie nominations this year, those five were replaced by four dramas and an animated film.

In the male lead actor and supporting actor there was only one change - Robert Downey, Jr. (who WON the Golden Globes) was replaced by Jeremy Fenner of Hurt Locker. And there one change in the supporting Actress category, addition of Maggie Gyllenhal (yay!) of Crazy Heart. At least I think that's it..... Now I have until March 7 to see as many more as I can! So here's the movie list:

Avatar (Best Picture, Best Director: James Cameron)
Blind Side (Best Picture, Best Actress: Sandra Bullock)
Crazy Heart (Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Gyllenhal)
District 9 (Best Picture)
Hurt Locker (Best Picture, Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Best Actor: Jeremy Fenner)
Inglorious Basterds (Best Picture Best Director: Quentin Tarantino, Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz)
Invictus (Best Actor: Morgan Freeman, Best Supporting Actor: Matt Damon)
Julie & Julia (Best Actrress: Meryl Streep)
Last Station (Best Actress Helen Mirren, Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer)
Lovely Bones (Best Supporting Actor: Stanley Tucci)
Messenger (Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson)
Precious (Best Picture, Best Director: Lee Daniels, Best Actress: Gabourey Adibe, Best Supporting Actress: Mo'nique)
A Serious Man (Best Picture)
A Single Man (Best Actor - Colin Furth)
An Education (Best Picture, Best Actress: Carey Mulligan)
Up (Best Picture)
Up in the Air (Best Picture, Best Director: Jason Reitman, Best Actor: George Clooney, Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga AND Anna Kendrick)

2010 ALA Awards -Caldecott Newbery Printz

The BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS were made this morning. For once, not many surprises for Caldecott or Newbery....

CALDECOTT
Congratulations Jerry Pinkney! ! !For the first time EVER I picked it! This is truly the most magnificent picture book this year. How could it not win??? Just look at the cover! It's a completely wordless picture book that tells the story perfectly. Here's my review from September. And here's the ALA announcement site.

Winner:
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney

Honor books:
All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and illustrated by Marla Frazee. I love it. Here's my review.

Red Sings from Treetops by Joyce Sidman and illustrated by Zagarenski. I just created a script from this book that my fourth graders will present next Saturday night to their parents. YeeHa!

NEWBERY
Okay, this probably would not have been my pick. Here's my review. It was a good book, though, for sure. Here's the ALA Announcement site.

Winner:
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Honor Books:
Claudette Colvin; Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

PRINTZ
On Wednesday, at my TARC book discussion, this book was brought up. The only thing I remember being said is that it was, "really, really strange."

Winner:
Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Honors:
Charles and Emma, the Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes

2010 Golden Globe Nominations

Everyone calls this the precursor to the Academy Awards. It seems almost a little more "down to earth" than the Academy Awards. This year, let's see how they compare! The nominees were announced this morning in LA, the award show will be on January 17th. I wonder how many of the movies I can get to see before then? I've seen six out of the 25, but many of them (13/25, actually) have either not come out or not hit Tucson yet!

And the winners are? See the red additions below! They work for me!

In alphabetical order:

(500) Days of Summer (Best Comedy/Musical, Actor)
*Avatar (Best Drama, Best Director)
*The Blind Side (Actress-Sandra Bullock)
Brothers (Actor)
*Crazy Heart (Actor-Jeff Bridges)
*Duplicity (Actress)
An Education (Actress)
*The Hangover (Best Comedy/Musical)
Hurt Locker (Best Drama, Best Director)
The Informant (Actress)
Inglorious Basterds (Best Drama, Director, Supporting Actor-Christoph Waltz)
Invictus (Director, Actor, Supporting Actor)
*It's Complicated (Best Comedy/Musical, Actress)
*Julie & Julia (Best Comedy/Musical, Actress-Meryl Streep)
The Last Station (Actress, Supporting Actor)
The Lovely Bones (Supporting Actor)
The Messenger (Supporting Actor)
Nine (Best Comedy/Musical, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress)
*Precious (Best Drama, Actress, Supporting Actress-MoNique)
*The Proposal (Actress)
Sherlock Holmes (Actor-Robert Downey, Jr.)
*A Serious Man (Actor)
*A Single Man (Actor)
*Up in the Air (Best Drama, Director, Actor and TWO Supporting Actresses) 90/90
The Young Victoria (Actress)

*Those I've seen....

2009 National Book Award Finalists

The National Book Award Winners will be announced on November 18th. You can check the titles out at their website, but I'll detail the kid's nominations here:






Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith

(Deborah Heligman)
272 pgs.
Young Adult Biography
1020 L





Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice

(Phillip Hoose)
144 pages
Young Adult Nonfiction
1000L


Jumped

(Rita Garcia-Williams)
Young Adult Fiction
176 pages
600L



Lips Touch: Three Times

(Laini Taylor)
YA Novel
272 pages
990 L






Stitches: A Memoir

(David Small)
Illustrated Memoir
329 pages