The Reviews:
Athena: the Grey-Eyed Goddess, by George O'Conner, at Library Chicken
Fever Crumb, by Philip Reeve, at By Singing Light
Fused, by Kari Lee Townsend, at Writers' Ally
The Hotel Under the Sand, by Kage Baker, at Fantasy Literature
Kat, Incorrigible, by Stephanie Burgis, at My Love Affair With Books
Middleworld, by J & P Voelkel, at Maltby Reads
Scumble, by Ingrid Law, at Books & Other Thoughts
Season of Secrets, by Sally Nicholls, at Fuse #8 and My Brain on Books
The Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi, at A Year of Reading and at Great Kid Books
The Shifter (Healing Wars Book 1) at books4yourkids
Small Persons With Wings, by Ellen Booraem, at Eva's Book Addiction
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, at Bookish Blather
The Time Travelers, by Linda Buckley-Archer, at Teacher Girl's Book Blog
True Princess, by Diane Zahler, at The Brain Lair, Jean Little Library, Galley Smith, Write for a Reader, and The Compulsive Reader (full tour schedule here)
The Witch's Guide to Cooking With Children, by Keith McGowan at Becky's Book Reviews
The Weaver, by Kai Strand, at The Story of a Writer
Zita the Space Girl, by Ben Hatke, at Kids Lit.
Two mice books at Book Aunt (Bless This Mouse, by Lois Lowry, and Young Fredle, by Cynthia Voigt)
Two Grimm books at Random Musings of a Bibliophile (A Tale Dark and Grimm, and The Grimm Legacy)
It was a Fantasitical Middle Grade Monday last week over at From the Mixed Up Files--Shannon Messenger shares some of her favorite mg fantasy books, and offers three chances to win one!
Author Interviews and Guest Posts, and other things:
Ellen Booraem (Small Persons With Wings) at Sarah Laurence Blog
Diane Zahler (A True Princess) at Galleysmith and The Cozy Reader
Locus Magazine gives awards every year determined by votes from fans (the votes of fans who are subscribers are weighted more heavily). They've put up some lists of recommended reading, although books that aren't on the list can be voted for too. Here's their "YA" list, which strays into "MG" territory:
- Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)
- The White Cat, Holly Black (Simon & Schuster/McElderry Books)
- Pathfinder, Orson Scott Card (Simon Pulse)
- Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic Press)
- Factotum, D. M. Cornish (Omnibus Australia; Fickling UK; Putnam)
- Thresholds, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Viking)
- Enchanted Glass, Diana Wynne Jones (HarperCollins UK; Greenwillow)
- The Boneshaker, Kate Milford (Clarion)
- Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press; Walker UK)
- The Keys to the Kingdom, Book 7: Lord Sunday, Garth Nix (Scholastic Press; HarperCollins UK)
- I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett (Doubleday UK; Harper)
- Fever Crumb, Philip Reeve (Scholastic)
- Kid vs. Squid, Greg van Eekhout (Bloomsbury)
- Behemoth, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse)
and finally, via Buzzfeed: ducks wearing dog masks. Just in case you hadn't seen it yet.
I want to read Thresholds now too. Thanks for doing these every week, Charlotte. I always look forward to getting on the computer Sunday afternoon to look at it. :)
ReplyDeleteAha! It's like that DuckRabbit thing; who knew there were dog masks out there made especially FOR ducks?
ReplyDeleteI wrote one on Pegasus, though I think I labeled it YA.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Bookwyrme! But I do think that one falls in the YA bracket, more, though, because of marketing than anything in the book itself, except perhaps its length and complexity (?)
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