How to Nominate Your Books for Our Best Lists

• Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers
  
  
• VOYA's Nonfiction Honor List

Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers

Have you published quality fiction in 2008 for middle school and junior high school youth aged eleven to thirteen or in grades six to eight?

Each publisher may nominate up to five books per imprint of their most outstanding titles published between October 2008 and September 2009.

1. Send six copies of each nominated 2008 title to our selection committee chair:
   
   Amy Luedtke, Chair
   Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Selection Committee
   St. Louis Park Library
   3240 Library Lane
   St. Louis Park, MN 55426
   
   
2. Be sure we receive your books as early as possible, but no later than our nominations deadline of August 28, 2009.
   
   
3. Refer procedural inquiries to VOYA Review Editor Linda Benson.

Winning selections will be featured in the next edition of Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers, an annotated booklist in the February 2009 issue of VOYA.

Please see the winning titles in the 2008 Top Shelf Fiction list in the February 2009 issue of VOYA, including detailed criteria used in selecting the list.

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Nonfiction Honor List

Have you published quality nonfiction—drama and poetry included—in 2008 for middle school and junior high school youth (grades six to nine)?

Each publisher may nominate up to five books per imprint of their most outstanding titles.

Here's how to nominate:

1. Send six copies of each nominated 2008 title to:
   
   VOYA Nonfiction Honor List Selection Committee
   c/o Stacey Hayman
   Rocky River Public Library
   1600 Hampton Road
   Rocky River, OH 44116
   
   
2. Be sure we receive your books as early as possible, but no later than our nominations deadline January 31, 2009.
   
   
3. Refer procedural inquiries to VOYA Review Editor Linda Benson.

Winning selections will be featured in the next edition of the Nonfiction Honor List, an annotated bibliography in the August 2008 issue of VOYA.

Please see the winning titles in the 2007 Nonfiction Honor list in the August 2008 issue of VOYA, including detailed criteria used in selecting the list.