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List & Book Review #2

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List & Book Review #2
Group:District 13
Swap Coordinator:KateKintail (contact)
Swap categories: Books  Email 
Number of people in swap:4
Location:International
Type:Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:September 17, 2013
Date items must be sent by:November 30, 2013
Number of swap partners:2
Description:

Second in this series of swaps that require you to indicate which books you've read on a list, read one of the books you haven't already read, and write a review of it for your partners.

The List:

This time we're going to focus on Printz Award winners. Go through the list of winners and nominees for the Michael L. Printz award for excellence in young adult literature: CLICK FOR LIST and indicate with an asterisk, bold, font color, or highlight color the ones that you have read. (I'll put the list at the bottom of this swap, so you can just copy & paste and then mark up as desired).

The Book Review:

Choose a book from the list that you have NOT yet read. Give it a try. You don't have to finish it if you end up not liking it, but you should read enough to be able to write a short review (minimum of two paragraphs) of it. Please do not include any major spoilers unless you are sure your partners have read the same book (check your partners' profiles). How would you summarize it? Did you like the book? Would you recommend it? Did it deserve to be on this list? What were your favorite aspects/characters/moments? Least favorite?

The Swap:

Send your list and review to your 2 partners. Either send an email and put their email addresses in the BCC fields OR post it somewhere like on a blog or tumblr and use the messaging system on swap-bot to give the link to your partner.

Got it? Okay! Post or message me if you have any questions!

Here's the list of all the books:

  • 2013
    • In Darkness by Nick Lake (2013 Winner)
    • Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
    • Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
    • Dodger by Terry Pratchett
    • The White Bicycle by Beverley Brenna
  • 2012
    • Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley (2012 Winner)
    • Why We Broke Up, written by Daniel Handler, art by Maira Kalman
    • The Returning, written by Christine Hinwood
    • Jasper Jones, written by Craig Silvey
    • The Scorpio Races, written by Maggie Stiefvater
  • 2011
    • Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (2011 Winner)
    • Stolen by Lucy Christopher
    • Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
    • Revolver written by Marcus Sedgwick
    • Nothing written by Janne Teller
  • 2010
    • Going Bovine by Libba Bray (2010 Winner)
    • Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman
    • The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey
    • Punkzilla by Adam Rapp
    • Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance, 1973 by John Barnes
  • 2009
    • Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta (2009 Winner)
    • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 2: The Kingdom on the Waves by M. T. Anderson
    • The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
    • Nation by Terry Pratchett
    • Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
  • 2008
    • The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean (2008 Winner)
    • Dreamquake: Book Two of the Dreamhunter Duet by Elizabeth Knox
    • One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke
    • Repossessed by A.M. Jenkins
    • Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
  • 2007
    • American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang (2007 Winner)
    • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation; v. 1: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
    • An Abundance of Katherines, by John Green
    • Surrender, by Sonya Hartnett
    • The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
  • 2006
    • Looking for Alaska, by John Green (2006 Winner)
    • Black Juice , by Margo Lanagan
    • I Am the Messenger , by Markus Zusak
    • John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, a Photographic Biography, by Elizabeth Partridge
    • A Wreath for Emmett Till, by Marilyn Nelson
  • 2005
    • how i live now, by Meg Rosoff (2005 Winner)
    • Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
    • Chanda’s Secrets, by Allan Stratton
    • Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary D. Schmidt
  • 2004
    • The First Part Last, by Angela Johnson (2004 Winner)
    • A Northern Light, by Jennifer Donnelly
    • Keesha’s House, by Helen Frost
    • Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
    • The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
  • 2003
    • Postcards from No Man’s Land, by Aidan Chambers ( 2003 Winner)
    • The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
    • My Heartbeat, by Garret Freymann-Weyr
    • Hole in My Life, by Jack Gantos
  • 2002
    • A Step From Heaven, by An Na (2002 Winner)
    • The Ropemaker, by Peter Dickinson
    • Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century
    • American Art, by Jan Greenberg Abrams
    • Freewill, by Chris Lynch
    • True Believer, by Virginia Euwer Wolff
  • 2001
    • Kit’s Wilderness, by David Almond (2001 Winner)
    • Many Stones, by Carolyn Coman
    • The Body of Christopher Creed, by Carol Plum-Ucci
    • Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison
    • Stuck in Neutral, by Terry Trueman
  • 2000
    • Monster, by Walter Dean Myers (2000 Winner)
    • Skellig, by David Almond
    • Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Hard Love, by Ellen Wittlinger

Discussion

PenguinParade 09/12/2013 #

Code Name Verity! Such a fabulous fabulous book! I love the Printz awards!

camelsamba 09/15/2013 #

Oh my goodness, I've only read 2 of those (Verity and Disreputable History) - but my eldest son owns at least 5 of the others so I suppose it would be easy to do the second step...

KateKintail 09/17/2013 #

I've read 9 of them... 5 of which are concentrated in 2006 and 2007 LOL. A handful are on my Mt. To Be Read though.

And the one I decided to read for this is one I've been wanting to read for years. So this gives me a good excuse to finally read it!

Thanks for joining, everybody!

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