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This is amazing good news. Great news, in fact. I’m happy and proud to say that my book, Bystander, is included on the ballot for the 2012 New York State Reading Association Charlotte Award.

To learn more about the award, and to download a ballot or bookmark, please click here.

The voting is broken down into four categories and includes forty books. Bystander is in the “Grades 6-8/Middle School” category. Really, it’s staggering. There are ten books in this category out of literally an infinity of titles published each year. You do the math, people.

For more background stories on Bystander — that cool inside info you can only find on the interwebs! — please click here (bully memory) and here (my brother John) and here (Nixon’s dog, Checkers) and here (the tyranny of silence).

Below please find all the books on the ballot — congratulations, authors & illustrators! I’m honored to be in your company.

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GRADES pre K-2/PRIMARY

Bubble Trouble . . . Margaret Mahy/Polly Dunbar

City Dog, Country Frog . . . Mo Willems/Jon J Muth

Clever Jack Takes the Cake . . . Candace Fleming/G. Brian Karas

Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes . . . Margie Palatini/Barry Moser

Memoirs of a Goldfish . . . Devin Scillian/Tim Bower

Otis . . . Loren LongStars Above Us . . . Geoffrey Norman/E.B. Lewis

That Cat Can’t Stay . . . Thad Krasnesky/David Parkins

Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! . . . April Pulley Sayre/Annie Patterson

We Planted a Tree . . . Diane Muldrow/Bob Staake

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GRADES 3-5/INTERMEDIATE

The Can Man . . . Laura E. Williams/Craig Orback L

Emily’s Fortune . . . Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Family Reminders . . .

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Published in 2009 by Flashlight Press
Link for book @ publisher:
http://www.flashlightpress.com/I_Always_ALWAYS_Get_My_Way.html

Link for book @ Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Always-ALWAYS-Get-My-Way/dp/097997464X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1249201399&sr=1-1
Hardcover, for ages 4-8, 32 pages
A Cybils Award Nominee

Emmy is a whirling dervish in a little body, constantly and creatively getting in to mischief. Her parents are sorely patient with her as well as her older brother and sister. She is comical and exhausting.
My granddaughter was fascinated with Emmy's escapades and was rushing me to finish the book so she would know what happened to Emmy. This book is a joy to read! I recommend this book......all though I would make sure the child hearing the book does not "feel enticed to follow Emmy in her mischief".

This book was borrowed from the library for reading/reviewing.

Blissful Reading!
Annette

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Author: Thad Krasnesky (on JOMB)
Illustrator: David Parkins (on JOMB)
Published: 2009 Flashlight Press (on JOMB)
ISBN: 9780979974649

Cute only gets you so far in the real world. Capturing the glee of victory and the sting of defeat, this hilariously illustrated rhyming book lets us laugh at our own (and our little sibling’s) attempts to prove otherwise.

Mentioned in this episode:

• Dusan Petricic
• David Roberts

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