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Cindy and Lynn’s Top Ten Books for 2010
Lynn: I LOVE reading Top Ten lists and Best of the Year lists! It doesn’t have to be books either, I’ll read the Top Ten Idiotic Quotes of the year, the Ten Best Websites to Waste Time On or even the...
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Cindy: We could post top ten lists for the next month and still not run out of ideas, but the 2011 publications have been coming in and we need to move on. Hey, Lynn, maybe we should post a list of the...
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Lynn: Our focus group, Hayden and Mason, my 7-year-old grandsons, work hard for us all year testing books and giving us their opinions. So it’s only fair that they get to list their top favorites of...
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L.A. Times Book Prizes – YA Lit
Cindy: As Courtney Jones reported over at the Likely Stories Booklist Blog earlier today, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes shortlists were announced today, including the adult novel category judged by...
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What Would YOU Pick?
Cindy: As I write this, Lynn is winging her way to The American Library Association Midwinter Meetings in Dallas…propelled as much by excitement and nerves as she is by Delta Airlines. Her 2012 Newbery...
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You first! What’s your favorite book of the year?
Cindy and Lynn: Before we head off to Seattle for the ALA Midwinter Meetings and the much anticipated 2013 Youth Media Awards, we are going to post our top ten lists of our favorite picture books,...
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Cindy and Lynn’s Best of 2012
Cindy: Judging from the towering to-read stack still to be conquered, I feel like I should be making a list of Best Books I Didn’t Get Read in 2012, but I did read plenty of fabulous and fun books....
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Lynn: The finalists for this year’s Los Angeles Book Prizes were announced yesterday. The winners will be announced April 19th at 7:30 pm in the Bovard Auditorium on the USC campus. The announcement...
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The Fairy Ring by Mary Losure
Cindy: Booklist readers know that The Fairy Ring: or Elsie and Frances Fool the World (Candlewick 2012) was named Booklist’s Top of the List 2012 Youth Nonfiction winner. I had read this bizarre little...
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2013 Favorites
Cindy and Lynn: Top Ten lists are so limiting. We never seem to manage to hold to ten anyway. We are trying to put some limits on ourselves, though, so we are combining our fiction, nonfiction and...
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