If you have read my blog for a while, then you know that I almost never talk about other authors and their books.
It is not my job to talk about other authors and their books.
But I am going to deviate from my ethical constraints and do that in the coming weeks.
I am going to do that because I have been fortunate enough to read some books which are not yet published, and I want to say a few things about them because they are good.
I would never say anything about bad books because I can't get to the end of bad books.
Included in those not-yet-released books that I'd like to say a few things about because they are so good are BZRK, by Michael Grant (February, 2012), and The Raft, by S.A. Bodeen (August, 2012).
I admit that it is a rare occasion when I read Middle Grade books, but I will throw something out there -- go out on a tender limb -- about the YA titles I've read from 2011.
This is a prediction: You will see these three books in the Michael L. Printz Award corral for 2012: How to Save a Life, by Sara Zarr, Brooklyn, Burning, by Steve Brezenoff, and Everybody Sees the Ants, by A.S. King.
Let's see if I'm not right about at least one of those.
