2013 Nerdy Book Club Award Nominations Begin!
I know you are still reading.
I am still reading, too.
We will never stop reading, but sometimes we need to take a moment, reflect, and celebrate the books we have enjoyed and shared.
It is time for the third annual Nerdy Book Club Awards, the Nerdies. In a sea of end-of-year book lists and awards, our little award seeks to honor the children’s and young adults’ titles that teachers, librarians, authors, booksellers, parents, and most of all, young people, have loved reading this year.
Have you ever dreamed of serving on a book award committee? Did you know you were already on one?
Here is how the Nerdies works:
Nominate: The Nomination Ballot is open until November 29th at midnight Eastern Time. Nominate up to 5 books in each of the following categories:
Picture Books: Fiction
Picture Books: Nonfiction
Early Readers/ Chapter Books
Graphic Novels
Poetry
MG/YA Nonfiction
Middle Grade Fiction
Young Adult Fiction
You do not need to nominate books in every category or nominate a full slate of 5 nominees. All nominees must have been published in 2013 and written for children or young adults. In order to prevent ballot box stuffing for beloved titles, we have restricted the surveys to one response per computer.
Read: The top nominees in each category will be announced on December 1st. Readers will have two weeks to catch up on any books they may have missed.
Vote: The final ballot will be open from December 15th-21st. Vote for your top choice in each category. You do not need to vote in every category to participate.
Wait: Enjoy the holidays. Read some more.
Celebrate: The 2013 Nerdies winners will be announced in daily category posts beginning December 26th.
Join us in honoring the books that matter to all of us and the children we encourage to read. No matter what wins, the ongoing conversations about these books will benefit every member of our community. Thank you for participating.
Let the Nerdies begin!
**If you are shopping for holiday gifts, don’t forget to give the gift of Nerdy this year. Proceeds from the Nerdy Book Club Cafe Press store benefit Reading Is Fundamental, and help provide books for needy children.
Donalyn Miller is a fifth grade teacher at Peterson Elementary in Fort Worth, TX. She is the author of The Book Whisperer and Reading in the Wild. Donalyn co-hosts the monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk (with Nerdy co-founder, Colby Sharp), and facilitates the Twitter reading initiative, #bookaday. You can find her on Twitter at @donalynbooks or under a pile of books somewhere, happily reading.
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That took me a long time! So hard to choose my favorites of the year, and I was so worried I was missing something special. Almost forgot the True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt! I was using my Good Reads reviews to help, and for some reason I haven’t posted a review of True Blue Scouts. Yikes! Must correct that error!
Sharing and sent in my list of favs!
I have been patiently waiting for the noms to open up! Yay! So excited. Also glad it’s limited to five in each category.