It is official! A Crooked Kind of Perfect has made Vermont's children's choice list for 2008! (And look! There's Loree, too!)

2008-09 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Master List

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Applegate, Katherine. Home of the Brave (Feiwel)
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Avi. The Traitors' Gate (Atheneum)
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Babbitt, Natalie. Jack Plank Tells Tales (Scholastic)
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Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (Farrar, Straus Giroux)
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Burns, Loree. Tracking Trash (Houghton Mifflin)
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Clements, Andrew. No Talking (Simon & Schuster)
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Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic)
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Freedman, Russell. Who Was First? Discovering the Americas (Clarion)
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Grandits, John. Blue Lipstick (Clarion)
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Haas, Jessie. Chase (Greenwillow)
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Hale, Shannon. Book of a Thousand Days (Bloomsbury)
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Hill, Kirkpatrick. Do Not Pass Go (Simon & Schuster)
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Holm, Jennifer. Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf (Simon & Schuster)
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Hulme & Wexler. The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep (Bloomsbury)
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Jonell, Lynne. Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat (Henry Holt)
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Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! (Atheneum)
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Kinney, Jeff. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Amulet)
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Korman, Gordon. Schooled (Hyperion)
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Rex, Adam. The True Meaning of Smekday (Hyperion)
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Rumford, James. Beowulf (Houghton Mifflin)
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Schlitz, Laura Amy. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! (Candlewick)
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Schmidt, Gary. The Wednesday Wars (Clarion)
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Selznick, Brian. The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic)
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Smith, Roland. </b>Elephant Run</b> (Hyperion)
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Sturm & Tommaso. Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Hyperion)
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Thomson, Sarah L. The Dragon's Egg (Greenwillow)
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Urban, Linda. A Crooked Kind of Perfect (Harcourt)
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Varon, Sara. Robot Dreams (First Second)
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Wells, Rosemary. Red Moon at Sharpsburg (Viking)
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White, Ruth. Way Down Deep (Farrar, Straus Giroux)

For the next year, Vermont kids will be encouraged to read at least five of these books and then vote on their favorite. Winning is, of course, an honor -- but the real excitement for me is thinking that kids all over the state will now see my book in their school and public libraries!

Having served on this committee once myself, I know what a big job it is to sort through the 300 or so best books of the year and narrow that down to your favorite thirty. Thank you, thank you DCF Committee.