Clap When You Land VS New Kid

Both of these books are genres that some members of our team don't usually read.  I am a recent convert to enjoying novels in verse and, having enjoyed Poet X immensely, looked forward to Clap When You Land.  We read New Kid last round and chose it to move forward and blogged already about how much students have enjoyed it.  This round was a tough choice.  Ultimately, we brought in a student reader to hear her thoughts as well.  She was torn like we were.  She liked both a lot, but just thought that other students in our school would like Clap more. We concur and choose Clap When You Land to move to the finals.   

 A couple of us enjoyed the audio version of Clap.  We concur with the other bloggers who recommend that version.  It reads like something that is meant to be spoken aloud.