It's (Almost) Time for 2019 Cybils Nominations!

It's almost time for nominations to be made for the 2019 Cybils. Nominations for the Cybils will open here on October 1st.

I love nominating good books for the Cybils. I spend a lot of time each year making up my list, and I set my alarm for early in the morning on October 1st so I can nominate my favorites each year.

I'm proud to say that I have nominated thirteen books that were chosen as finalists and three chosen as winners over the years. I've had finalists or winners in all of these categories: Poetry (2); Teen/Junior High Nonfiction (3); Young Adult Fiction; Easy Reader (3); Elementary/Middle Grade Nonfiction (2); Fiction Picture Books; and Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction. Here are the books I nominated that were either finalists or winners.

2018 Cybils Finalist: Junior High Nonfiction: 

Apollo 8: The Mission that Changed Everything by Martin W. Sandler

2018 Cybils Finalist and Winner: Poetry: 

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

2017 Cybils Finalist: Young Adult Fiction: 

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

2016 Cybils Finalist: Easy Reader: 

Elephant and Piggie Love Reading: We Are Growing by Laurie Keller

2016 Cybils Finalist: Junior High Nonfiction:

Bubonic Plague: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow

2016 Cybils Finalist and Winner: Middle Grade Nonfiction:

Some Writer! The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet

2014 Cybils Finalist: Easy Reader:

My New Friend is So Fun by Mo Willems

2014 Cybils Finalist: Poetry:

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

2013 Cybils Finalist: Elementary/Middle-Grade Nonfiction:

Locomotive by Brian Floca

2013 Cybils Finalist and Winner: Fiction Picture Books:

Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter Brown

2012 Cybils Finalist: Easy Reader:

Bink and Golly: Two for One by Kate DiCamillo

2012 Cybils Finalist: Middle/Teen Nonfiction:

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson

2010 Cybils Finalist: Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction:

Dragonbreath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs by Ursula Vernon

I'm working on my list for 2019. I wonder if any of these books will be finalists or winners.

Have you nominated Cybils in the past? Have any of your nominations been finalists or winners? Have you made up your list of nominations for 2019? Here is a list of categories. You can nominate a book for each category:

• Early Chapter Books
• Easy Readers
• Fiction Picture Books & Board Books
• Graphic Novels
  • Elementary/Middle-Grade
  • Young Adult
• Middle-Grade Fiction
• Nonfiction
  • Elementary/Middle Grade
  • Junior High/Senior High
• Poetry
• Speculative Fiction
  • Elementary/Middle-Grade
  • Young Adult
• Young Adult Fiction