Starred YA Books of 2012

Like last year, I’ve started keeping track of the starred reviews for YA books published in the big six review publications — The Horn Book, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. The reviews for books published in 2012 are rolling in and here is the list so far:

Five Stars
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Penguin)
Horn Book, PW, SLJ, Booklist, Kirkus

Four Stars
Crow by Barbara Wright (Random House)
Horn Book, PW, SLJ, Kirkus

There is No Dog by Meg Rosoff (Penguin)
Horn Book, PW, Booklist, Kirkus

Three Stars
Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years by Linda Barrett Osborne (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
PW, SLJ, Kirkus

The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour (Penguin)
PW, SLJ, Kirkus

Two Stars
Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson (Penguin)
PW, Kirkus

Dragonswood by Janet Lee Carey (Dial)
SLJ, Kirkus

Try Not to Breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard (Penguin)
PW, Kirkus

I’m having a hard time getting the stars from Booklist and Publisher’s Weekly — I only have access to them via a database and they’re embargoed for a month or two each. If you have access to a print subscription and would like to help me compile this list, please let me know!

January 26th, 2012  ♥  Books  ♥  No Comments »