Due this week

General Writing. Send in your best work – poems, short stories, essays. (Feel free to do it throughout the year, but this gives you a deadline.)
Deadline: Oct. 10.

To submit to Newspaper Series

  • Log in. (Click "Not a YWP member?" to create an account.)

  • Click "create content" and create an ENTRY
  • Fill out "title," "author name, school & grade" and "prompt" boxes.
  • Paste story into "body."
  • Click "Submit." You are done.
    NOTES: Your account email must be accurate; a "blog" entry must be resubmitted as an ENTRY to be considered.

GMBA Book Selections -- Short version

Submitted by ggevalt on October 18, 2007 - 18:05.

Welcome to the discussion group for the Green Mountain Book Award finalists. Here is the short version of the book list for 2007-08. Click here to get to the GMBA Forums Each book summary has a link to the appropriate individual book forum.

Said Hyder and Susan Burton, Come Back to Afghanistan. The author describes his experience as an American teenager when he traveled to Afghanistan to see his father, who was the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai and then became the governor of Kunar. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

Steve Almond, Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of AmericaAlmond follows his delicious obsession across America, chewing on such weighty matters as product placement, mega-corporations, and the dilemma posed by chocolate-covered coconut as he dips into the stories behind a handful of regional specialties, including Vermont's own Lake Champlain Chocolates. A hip and sometimes flip voice enrobes a sometimes dark and rocky road story. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

Sarah Dressen, The Truth About Forever.The summer following her father's death, Macy plans to work as the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA Study Guide

Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys. A semi-realistic fantasy that blends African myth and contemporary Afro-American/Afro-British culture in a story about an accountant who loses the father who caused him terminal embarrassment, gains a brother he never knew he had, and finds true love. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

John Green, Looking for Alaska. Sixteen-year-old Miles? first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

Kenneth Oppel, Airborn Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. ... YWP BOOK FORUM ... GMBA STUDY GUIDE

Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine. A story told from five different points of view chronicles the experiences of Japanese Americans caught up in the nightmare of World War II internment camps. ... BOOK FORUM

Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
BOOK FORUM


Michael Simmons, Finding Lubchenko When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.
BOOK FORUM

Brian Vaughan, Runaways Vol. 1: Pride & Joy. When six young friends discover that their parents are all secretly super-powered villains, they run away together and find strength in one another to overcome their evil legacy. MARVEL COMIC.
BOOK FORUM

Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family’s nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors
and the authorities.
BOOK FORUM

Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her, and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.
BOOK FORUM

Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese. This graphic novel alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture.
BOOK FORUM

Marcus Zusak I am the Messenger. After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cabdriver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
BOOK FORUM

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