Although student voting for the 2019-2020 Maine Student Book Award is still being conducted (tentatively through an extended date of April 27th due to the COVID-19 crisis), the new nominees for the 2020-2021 award have already been announced. The Cloud Library is stocked with all of the new 2020-2021 books, as well as with the 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 books. Check out a few of the new nominees that are of particular interest to YA readers below.
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews (graphic novel/ebook)
Monstrous: The Lore, Gore, and Science behind Your Favorite Monsters by Caryn Beccia (nonfiction/ebook)
Caught!: Nabbing History’s Most Wanted by Georgia Bragg and Kevin O’Malley (nonfiction/ebook)
Dog Driven by Terry Lynn Johnson (adventure fiction/ebook)
Fireborne by Rosaria Munda (fantasy/audio and ebook)
Under the Broken Sky by Mariko Nagai (historical fiction-in-verse/ebook)
Nikki on the Line by Barbara Carroll Roberts (sports fiction/audio)
The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White (fantasy/audio and ebook)
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia Williams (realistic fiction/audio and ebook)