2016 Cybils Awards Finalists

Finalists for the 2016 Children’s and Young Adults Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) were announced on January 1, 2017. Books of genre interest are listed below:

Audiobooks

• Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince, John Claude Bemis (Oasis)
• The Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz (Listening Library)
• When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Hachette)

Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels

• Lowriders to the Center of the Earth, Cathy Camper & Raul the Third (Chronicle)
• Mighty Jack, Ben Hatke (First Second)
• The Nameless City, Faith Erin Hicks & Jordie Bellaire (First Second)
• Princess Princess Ever After, Katie O’Neill (Oni)
• Bera the One-Headed Troll, Eric Orchard (First Second)

Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction

• The Firefly Code, Megan Frazer Blakemore (Bloomsbury USA)
• The Goblin’s Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice, Andrew Chilton (Knopf)
• The Voyage to Magical North, Claire Fayers (Henry Holt)
• Shadow Magic, Joshua Khan (Disney-Hyperion)
• When the Sea Turned to Silver, Grace Lin (Little, Brown)
• The Memory Thief, Bryce Moore (Adaptive)
• The Evil Wizard Smallbone, Delia Sherman (Candlewick)

Young Adult Graphic Novels

• Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine, Jody Houser, Francis Portela, & Marguerite Sauvage (Valiant)
• Monstress Volume 1: Awakening, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image)
• Ms. Marvel Vol. 5: Super Famous, G. Willow Wilson, Takeshi Miyazawa, Adriean Alphona, & Nico Leon (Marvel)

Young Adult Speculative Fiction

• Labyrinth Lost, Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks Fire)
• The Door at the Crossroads, Zetta Elliott (Rosetta)
• Illuminae, Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff (Knopf)
• Still Life with Tornado, A.S. King (Dutton)
• When the Moon was Ours, Anna-Marie McLemore (Thomas Dunne)
• The Keeper of the Mist, Rachel Neumeier (Knopf)
• This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab (Greenwillow)

The Cybils Awards “aims to recognize the children’s and young adult authors and illustrators whose books combine the highest literary merit and popular appeal.” Winners in each category will be announced on February 14, 2017.

For a complete list of nominees, see the Cybils official site.