{"id":18150,"date":"2013-02-23T23:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-24T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18150"},"modified":"2013-02-24T00:59:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T04:59:22","slug":"stand-out-authors-three-sonderbooks-stand-outs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=18150","title":{"rendered":"Stand-out Authors: Third-Timers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m winding down my posts about authors<\/a> who were not newcomers to my Sonderbooks Standouts<\/a> list this year. Six authors had a total of 3 Stand-outs, and twelve authors appeared for the second time. I have a feeling most of those will surely appear again in the future. Tonight I’m going to highlight the six authors who appeared on my Stand-outs list this year for the third time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>First, I have to mention Patrice Kindl, whose book, Owl in Love<\/a><\/em> was reviewed in the very first issue of Sonderbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I began Sonderbooks as an e-mail newsletter in August 2001, and Owl in Love<\/a><\/em> was the Young Adult Fiction representative in Sonderbooks #1<\/a>. Then it made my 2001 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> list, along with a book by Patrice Kindl I’d read earlier in the year, Goose Chase.<\/em> Both were Young Adult Fantasy, and Owl in Love<\/a><\/em> was #4, and Goose Chase<\/em> was #6. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This year, Patrice Kindl’s book Keeping the Castle<\/a><\/em> was #7 in Teen Fiction<\/a>. She is the author with the biggest gap between Stand-out years. I was so happy to find another book of hers to read!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Next I want to mention Diana Peterfreund, who had my favorite book of the year in 2009<\/a>, Rampant<\/a><\/em>, that innovative fantasy about killer unicorns. The sequel, Ascendant<\/a><\/em>, was #5 in Teen Fantasy and Science Fiction in my 2010 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And in this year’s Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, Diana Peterfreund’s For Darkness Shows the Stars<\/a><\/em>, a science fiction retelling of Jane Austen’s Persuasion<\/em> was #2 in Teen Fiction and right up there among my favorite books of the year. I’m discovering a trend: When Diana Peterfreund publishes a book, it’s going to be one of my favorites of the year.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Moving to Children’s Fiction, my #1 non-science-fiction-or-fantasy children’s novel of the year<\/a> was Summer of the Gypsy Moths<\/a><\/em>, by Sara Pennypacker, another 3-timer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Her other Sonderbooks Stand-outs were both books about the irrepressible Clementine. The first book, Clementine<\/a><\/em>, was #2 in Children’s Fiction in my 2010 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>. The latest book in the series, Clementine and the Family Meeting<\/a><\/em>, was #7 in Children’s Fiction in my 2011 Sonderbooks Stand-outs.<\/a>. Will Sara Pennypacker keep up her streak in 2013?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Two authors of Children’s Nonfiction also have three Stand-outs. Steve Jenkins broke into the lists in 2004, when I discovered his amazing book Actual Size<\/a><\/em>. It was #1 in Children’s Nonfiction in my 2004 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>His detailed cut-paper illustrations never cease to amaze me, and when he combined them with such fascinating information as is found in Never Smile at a Monkey<\/a><\/em>, he made my 2009 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> at #4 in Children’s Nonfiction. \"\"<\/a>And this year, he won me over with science and math facts both in Just a Second<\/a><\/em>, which was #6 in Children’s Nonfiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Another third-timer has written Children’s Nonfiction in previous years, but this year Candace Fleming made the 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> with a picture book. Oh No!<\/a><\/em> was #9 in Picture Books in a stellar year for picture books.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Her nonfiction Stand-outs were The Lincolns<\/a><\/em>, #2 in Children’s Nonfiction in my 2009 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>, \"\"<\/a>and Amelia Lost<\/a><\/em>, #5 in Children’s Nonfiction on my 2011 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Finally, one adult Nonfiction writer has a total of three Sonderbooks Stand-outs. Immaculee Ilibagiza broke onto my 2009 Sonderbooks Stand-outs<\/a> with my top two favorite nonfiction books of the year, Left to Tell<\/a><\/em>, and Led by Faith<\/a><\/em>, both powerful stories of forgiveness and faith about her miraculous survival of the Rwandan genocide.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This year’s 2012 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>, The Boy Who Met Jesus<\/a><\/em> was #6 in Nonfiction: Personal Stories. Immaculee knows how to make miraculous events seem completely believable and incredibly personal.<\/p>\n

For all of these authors, I’ll be very surprised if they don’t rack up some more Stand-outs before they finish writing. I’ll be eagerly looking for more of their books.<\/p>\n

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