out of every children's novel EVER, #83 is pretty good

[hwaet.livejournal.com]

In which The Thief clocks in at number 83 on Fuse #8's "Top 100 Children's Novels" poll and Elizabeth Bird recalls an earlier encounter with the reprobates from Sounis regarding her review of King of Attolia. In her words: "The fans are . . . let's just call them dedicated."

Top 100 Children's Novels (#85-81)

(wondering how she came up with the list? Guidelines are here)

Comments

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

Had they heard of this poll, I have little doubt that The Thief would have ranked far higher in the votes.

This...is probably true. Hm.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

aw man! why didn't we know about it?

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

IT'S A CONSPIRACY

ALERT THE MEDIA
ALERT THE QUEEN'S GUARD
ALERT THE KING
ALERT THE NEAREST WINESHOP
ALERT THE DANCING BEAR

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Heck yes it is! Although she's completely right. If we'd know about it, it would have been in the top 30, easy. Maybe even top 10. But I guess we should be glad we didn't, since this is way more of a representative survey that way...otherwise we'd all be skewing the results.

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

Maybe Fuse 8 will do a similar top 100 YA books next year, and we can all go and put QoA and KoA on the top of our lists :)

[zumie-ashlen.livejournal.com]

BUT IS IT A CONPIRACY OF KINGS? INQUIRING MINDS WISH TO KNOW!

ALERT GEN'S COUSIN, HE MUST BE SAT UPON AT ONCE. HE IS A FOUL TEMPER FOR NOT BEING #1--HIS QUEEN DESERVES ONLY THE BEST.

[hwaet.livejournal.com]

I googled, and it turns out that another School Library Journal blogger is actually doing this RIGHT NOW. Top Ten lists of teen novels have to be emailed to Diane Chen by THIS Valentine's Day.

Info here (http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/830000283/post/640051664.html)