Moon Over Manifest

I just finished Moon Over Manifest and loved it. What a wonderful book to win this year’s Newberry. The cast of characters and history portrayed are rich in a Walton’s meet Nancy Drew in Madam Sadie’s Divining Parlor kind of way. Perfect for girls ages ten and up…but with enough interest for boys as well.

Vanderpool, C. Moon Over Manifest. New York: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2010. Print.

2011 Adult Books with Teen Appeal

Yay! It is another snow day in Northern Virginia. In between calls of "mom, MOM," I am catching up on some reading. I just started this year's Newberry Winner: Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool and am enjoying being snowed in with a great story.

I also caught up on some American Library Association reading and saw a list of the Alex Awards. Alex Awards are given to the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences by the American Library Association. I thought my several friends with pre-teen and teens might want to see these titles. Please know that I haven't read even one of these books. I cannot endorse any of them yet. If you read one or if your child read's one or more, please let me know what thoughts are on the book(s).

• The Reaper's are Angels: A Novel by Alden Bell
  
• The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: A Novel by Aimee Bender
  
• The House of Tomorrow by Peter Bognanni
  
• Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue
  
• The Vanishing of Katharina Linden: A Novel by Helen Grant
  
• The Radleys by Matt Haig
  
• The Lock Artists by Steve Hamilton
  
• Girl in Transition by Jean Kwok
  
• Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray.
  
• The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
  

For an amazing and complete list of Youth Media awards presented at the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference 2011, go to: http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pr.cfm?id=6048