Good Books - January

And the winner is… 

The winter months are when the book awards are rolled out. The National Book Award for Young People went to The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Volume 1: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson. It is a facsinating story about what is the true cost of freedom, set during the American revolution. It is like nothing else out there.

The big award is the Michael A. Printz Award. For the past two years, my own pick for best book has won: Looking for Alaska by John Green and how i live now by Meg Rosoff.

This year, I am pulling for The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin. It is the unforgettable story of a young teen trying to protect both himself and his younger sisters from their volatile, violent mother, one of the scariest characters in recent teen fiction.

Good luck Nancy!

So, who are you pulling for?