The Nerds Heart YA Tournament = Awesomeness
I’m sure you’ve heard by now about the Nerds Heart YA Tournament, but if not let me fill you in on the details. Conceived and organized by the awesome Renay, the Nerds Heart YA is a book tournament (similar to SLJ’s Battle of the Books) that highlights sixteen young adult books published in 2008 that might not have garnered the attention of their counterparts. It’s going to be exciting because, one, I’m a judge and, two, I’m not familiar with hardly any of the titles.
Here are the sixteen shortlisted books:
- Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before by David Yoo
- The Latent Powers of Dylan Fontaine by April Lurie
- My Most Excellent Year by Steve Kluger
- Alive and Well in Prague, New York by Daphne Grab
- I Know It’s Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
- The Last Exit to Normal by Michael Harmon
- Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
- The Screwed Up Life of Charlie the Second by Drew Ferguson
- The Shape of Water by Anne Spollen
- What They Always Tell Us by Martin Wilson
- The City in the Lake by Rachel Neumeier
- Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers
- Debbie Harry Sings In French by Meagan Brothers
- Feathered by Laura Kasischke
- Leftovers by Laura Wiess
- The Opposite of Invisible by Liz Gallagher
Here’s the judging bracket (link opens a larger pdf):
The amazing and talented judges:
Valentina, Valentina’s Room
Jodie, Book Gazing
Natasha, Maw Books Blog
Ali, Worducopia and Lenore, Presenting Lenore
Mary Ann, Libr*fiti
Trish, Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin’ and Vasilly, 1330v
Kelly, YAnnabe
Becky, Becky’s Book Reviews, and Kailana, The Written World
Heather, A High and Hidden Place
Amy, My Friend Amy
Laza, Gimme More Books!
Stephanie, Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-Holic
Nicole, Linus’s Blanket
Renay, YA Fabulous and Susan, She’s Too Fond Of Books And It’s Turned Her Brain
Chris, Stuff As Dreams Are Made On and Nymeth, Things Mean A Lot
Follow all the action by keeping up with the official twitter account, Nerds Heart YA. Reviews and co-reviews and winner annoucements will be taking place over the summer on the blogs.
Look for my judging decision between Feathered by Laura Kasischke and I Know It’s Over by C.K. Kelly Martin before June 21st. I’m excited to see how this whole thing is going to go!
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I have an acquaintence with a local author here in Orlando that recently published her first book called “Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning”, and maintains a blog called “Summer Friend”. She recently highlighted the author of “Cracked Up to Be”, Courtney Summers. Ms. Summers makes her own book trailers, and the trailer for this particular book is amazing. Other than that one, I’ve not heard of any of these books. I’ll look forward to hearing about the winners!
on June 11th, 2009 at 5:54 amThis sounds really cool – I loved SLJ’s Battle of the Books.
I’ll be interested to see what you think of “I Know It’s Over.” I read it earlier this year and, sadly, deeply disliked it.
on June 11th, 2009 at 8:33 amI was at the library yesterday and saw I Know It’s Over on the shelf, so I snatched it up! I can’t wait to start reading more of these titles…so fun!
on June 12th, 2009 at 5:34 amSandy – I’m with you. I’m not familiar with many of them either.
Janssen – I haven’t started it yet, but now I wonder if I’d like it or not.
Kelly – Oh good!
on June 12th, 2009 at 6:52 pmThe banner is just too cute!
on June 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am