Well the 2013-14 Trumans have been announced. . . I always like to see award lists during the spring and compare my collection. I only had eight of the twelve nominees so I had some ordering to do. On the flip side, I had the Newbery (The One and Only Ivan), the Coretta Scott King Award (Hand In Hand), and the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal (Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon) which also won the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction. It's a good feeling to know that books of this status have already been checked out by kids in my school!
I'm embarrassed, however, that until today, I'd only read one of the Truman nominees: Cloaked. So I have some catching up to do. Today I finished The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson, the first in a new series. Louisiana-born Aurora, better known as Rory, is attending a boarding school in London while her parents are working in Bristol. It's not easy being the American trying to fit in. There are definite rules and expectations and if that's not enough to worry about, a Jack the Ripper copycat is suddenly recreating the horrific crimes of the late 1800s. For some reason, Rory is the only one who can see him. And she's next on his list.
