Gateway Nominees 2011-2012

I am officially beginning my reading of the 2011-2012 Gateway Award nominees.  I plan to review them on this blog as I read them.  As I read them, I plan to link them to my bookskoetter reviews.  This year's nominees are:

• Fat Cat by Robin Brande

• Hate List by Jennifer Brown

• After by Amy Efaw

• The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford

• If I Stay by Gayle Forman

• King of the Screwups by K.L. Going

• Muchacho by Louanne Johnson

• Hold Still by Nina LaCour

• Flash Burnout by L.K. Madigan

• Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick

• We Were Here by Matt de la Pena

• Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

• If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser

• The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

• Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have by Allen Zadoff