The 2018 Nerdies: Young Adult Fiction (Part Two), Announced by a Convention of Nerds*

January 03

Today we announce the second half of the 2018 Nerdies for Best Young Adult Fiction of the Year and close out the Nerdy Book Club Awards for this year. Thank you to everyone who nominated books and volunteered to write reviews for our announcement posts. Nerdy remains a vibrant reading community because of all of […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Young Adult Fiction (Part One), Announced by a Chapter of Nerds

January 02

We finish up the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Awards with two collaborative posts celebrating the best young adult fiction. This year, we honor twenty outstanding titles capturing and respecting the challenges of adolescence. Each exemplary book offers young adults validation and support for their experiences and struggles, and expands readers’ understanding of perspectives differing from […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Middle Grade Fiction

January 01

Congratulations to the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Award winners for middle grade fiction. We hope you find some of your favorites on the list, and that you can also add a couple of books to your to-read pile. Thank you to all the readers out there that nominated books. Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed Apple […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Long Form Nonfiction, Announced by Carol Jago and Donalyn Miller

December 31

Engaging, relevant nonfiction texts provide opportunities to expand our knowledge of the world and our understanding of both the past and future’s potential. We are delighted and honored to share with you the outstanding long form nonfiction books selected as 2018 Nerdy Book Club Nerdies winners. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to the […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Graphic Novels, Announced by Katherine Sokolowski

December 30

Break out your credit cards, fire up your library’s website to reserve some books, it’s time to share some more of the 2018 Nerdy Award winning titles with you. This list is one a group of my students will cheer for like no other. See, it doesn’t matter that I have over two hundred graphic […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Poetry and Novels in Verse

December 29

  Congratulations to the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Award winners for the best children’s and young adult poetry books and novels in verse of the year! Thank you to the hundreds of educators and families who nominated books.   Children’s Books   Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship by Irene […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Early Readers and Early Chapter Books, Announced by Alyson Beecher

December 28

  It’s time for the Nerdies! Wednesday, John Schu kicked us off by announcing the 2018 Fiction Picture Book Winners and yesterday, Donalyn Miller shared the 2018 Nonfiction Picture Book Winners. Today, the fun continues. As I was packing up books to float onto teachers a few weeks ago, I held back certain titles in […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Nonfiction Picture Books

December 27

Congratulations to the 2018 Nerdy Book Club Award winners for the best nonfiction books of the year and thank you to the hundreds of educators and families who nominated books.   Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went From the Football Field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Bryan Collier (Simon […]

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The 2018 Nerdies: Fiction Picture Books Announced by John Schu

December 26

I’m excited to kick off the eighth annual Nerdy Book Club Awards. First up is fiction picture books! A humongous thank-you to everyone who nominated titles. Congratulations to this year’s winners! Happy reading!     A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin “Each time Grace Lin tells a story, we tuck it away in our […]

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Our Seventh Nerdversary and the 8th Annual Nerdy Book Club Award Nominations

December 02

Colby Sharp and I met in person at the 2011 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference in Chicago. We had been collaborating for several months online by then. Colby participated in my annual summer #bookaday reading challenge, then joined me to co-host my monthly Twitter chat, #titletalk in the fall.   In spite […]

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