Cybils Finalists were announced this week

The Cybils (Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards) announced their finalists over the weekend. Check out the YA lists of the many categories. Links below.

Graphic Novels
Young Adult Fiction
Young Adult Non-Fiction
Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Graphic Novels (only the YA books on the list)

• Nimona by Stevenson *
• March, Book Two by Lewis
• Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Thrash
• Lion of Rora by Gage
• Ms. Marvel, Vol.1 by Wilson
• Oyster War by Towle

Young Adult Fiction

• All the Rage by Summers
• Dumplin' by Murphy
• Every Last Word by Stone
• Everything, Everything by Yoon
• How It Went Down by Magoon
• Infandous by Arnold
• The Truth Commission by Juby *

Young Adult Non-fiction

• Bayard Rustin: the Invisible Activist by Houtan, Naegle, and Long
• Courage and Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survival in WWII in Denmark by Hopkinson
• Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World by Lowinger
• I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Ganda
• Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Sheinkin *
• Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege on Leningrad by Anderson *
• Tommy: the Gun Which Changed America by Blumenthal

YA Speculative Fiction

• An Inheritance of Ashes by Bobet
• Bone Gap by Ruby *
• Mortal Heart by LaFever
• Shadowshaper by Older
• Slasher Girls and Monster Boys by Tucholke
• The Six by Alpert
• The Walls Around Us by Suma

The underlined books are those which I've read.
The star* is my favorite in the group. The non-fiction category has a tie.

Evergreen Teen Book Awards 2015 Nominees

The Evergreen Teen Book Award is sponsored by the Washington Young Adult Review Group (WashYARG), a group comprised of school and public librarians from the state of Washington. The award was created to give teens in the state a voice in deciding the best literature aimed at their age group. In order for the books to be considered they must be available in paperback. Students can vote online or mail in their ballots. Winning books are announced in April of each year. The winning book in April of 2014 was Divergent by Veronica Roth. 

The 2015 Evergreen Book Award nominees are:

1. 1 Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
2. 2 The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3. 3 Ask the Passengers by A.S. King
4. 4 Ten by Gretchen McNeil
5. 5 Cinder by Marissa Meyer
6. 6 Wonder by R.J. Palacio
7. 7 Boy 21 by Matthew Quick
8. 8 Bomb: The Race to Build - And Steal - The World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
9. 9 The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
10. 10 Drama by Raina Telgemeier

(Click on the hyperlinks for more information on each book. All the information on this post is from the Evergreen Teen Book Award Homepage.)

Note: If you are teen librarian from another state (other than Washington) I'd love to hear from you and get the link for your state teen book award name/list.

I did a little research and found a link to all the state book award links. Take a look at The Horn Book: State and Regional Awards. Though I haven't opened up more than a few of the hyperlinks on the list it appears to me that most states use some similar selection process as Washington State. Books on the nominated list are not from the current publication year. For example, the nominees for the California Young Reader Medal Young Adult Award books for 2015 are: The Fault in Our Stars (2012); Daughter of Smoke and Bones (2011); Legend (2011).