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Two wonderful things begin today in the kidlit world: Cybils nominations and 31 Flavorite Authors for Teens.

The Cybils are the internet’s first literary awards for the best children’s and teen books of 2007–and you can have a say in which books are nominated. Yes, you! Anyone with an email address can nominate a book.

Love children’s books? Have a favorite 2007 picture book, middle grade, teen fiction? Then head on over to the Cybils blog, and have your say. You can nominate books from there–one book for each category.

There are seven categories:

Curious about last year’s winners? Click here.

If you love children’s books, this is an experience you won’t want to miss out on. Get over there and make your voice heard! I can’t wait to see what you all nominate.

The other neat thing that begins today is 31 Flavorite Authors–an opportunity for readers to chat live with some great YA authors, every evening in October (5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern). Meg Cabot opens the 31 Flavorites tonight, and Stephenie Meyer closes them on October 31. ReaderGirlz have lined up some fantastic authors.

The authors include (in order):

Week One
1. Meg Cabot 2. Tiffany Trent 3. Brent Hartinger 4. Lorie Ann Grover 5. K.L. Going 6. Nikki Grimes

Week Two
7. Ellen Hopkins 8. Justina Chen Headley 9. Chris Crutcher 10. Ann Brashares 11. Sarah Mlynowski 12. Cecil Castellucci 13. Kirby Larson

Week Three
14. Tanya Lee Stone 15. John Green 16. Sara Zarr 17. Deb Caletti 18. Rachel Cohn 19. Kirsten Miller 20. Mitali Perkins

Week Four
21. Sonya Sones 22. Lisa Yee 23. Carolyn Mackler 24. E. Lockhart 25. Janet Lee Carey 26. Gaby Triana 27. Lauren Myracle

Week Five
28. Holly Black 29. Cynthia Leitich Smith 30. Dia Calhoun 31. Stephenie Meyer

Make sure you join the ReaderGirlz forum on MySpace; you must be a member of the forum to participate in the 31 Flavorite Author chats. (http://groups.myspace.com/readergirlz)

You can print a 31 Flavorites bookmark or poster from ReaderGirlz’s current issue found on their website. You can also win a FREE book; the thirty-first person each night to comment on the Flavorite Author chat will win a book. So put the chats on your calender, and don’t forget.