2017 Cybils Awards Winners
Winners for the 2017 Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (Cybils) have been announced. Books of genre interest are listed below.
Young Adult Speculative Fiction
- WINNER: Scythe, Neal Shusterman (Simon & Schuster)
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer, Leigh Bardugo (Random House)
- The Hearts We Sold, Emily Lloyd-Jones (Little, Brown)
- The Rules and Regulations for Mediating Myths & Magic, F.T. Lukens (Duet)
- They Both Die at the End, Adam Silvera (HarperTeen)
- Song of the Current, Sarah Tolcser (Bloomsbury)
Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
- WINNER: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury)
- A Properly Unhaunted Place, William Alexander (McElderry)
- Miss Ellicott’s School for the Magically Minded, Sage Blackwood (Tegen)
- Last Day on Mars, Kevin Emerson (Walden Pond)
- A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge (Amulet)
- Spirit Hunters, Ellen Oh (HarperCollins)
- The Countdown Conspiracy, Katie Slivensky (HarperCollins)
Young Adult Graphic Novels
- WINNER: Spill Zone, Scott Westerfeld & Alex Puvilland (First Second)
- Tyson Hesse’s Diesel: Ignition, Tyson Hesse (BOOM! Box)
- New Super-Man Vol. 1: Made In China, Gene Luen Yang & Viktor Bogdanovic (DC Comics)
Elementary/Middle Grade Graphic Novels
- WINNER: Where’s Halmoni?, Julie Kim (Little Bigfoot)
- Pashmina, Nidhi Chanani (First Second)
- The Dam Keeper, Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi (First Second)
- Suee and the Shadow, Ginger Ly & Molly Park (Abrams)
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.”
For a complete list of winners, see the Cybils official site.
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