Before anything else--nominations for the Cybils open on October 1! All are welcome to show love for their favorite books in a variety of categories from picture book to YA, including Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction....I can't link to the nomination page yet, of course, but here's the EMG SF category description. Books published from Oct. 16, 2012 to Oct.15, 2013 are eligible, and I've made a handy list of every eligible EMG SF book reviewed by Kirkus during that period (with the coming fortnight to be added) to refresh my own memory....
The Reviews
43 Old Cemetery Road: Dying to Meet You, by Kate Klise, at books4yourkids
The 9 Lives of Alexander Baddenfield, by John Bemelmans Marciano, at Becky's Book Reviews
Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, by Eoin Colfer, at So Many Books, So Little Time
The Castle of Llyr, by Lloyd Alexander, at Tor
The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, by Charles de Lint, at Hidden in Pages
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, at alibrarymama
Darkbeast Rebellion, by Morgan Keyes, at Not Acting My Age and Charlotte's Library
Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities, book 2), by Shannon Messenger, at The Write Stuff
Fortunatly, the Milk, by Neil Gaiman, at books4yourkids and Waking Brain Cells
Ghost Town (Saranormal book 1) by Phoebe Rivers, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, by Catherynne M. Valente, at Beth Fish Reads
The Good Little Devil and Other Tales, by Pierre Gripari, at the Children's Book Blog at The Independent
The King's Ransom, by Cheryl Carpinello, at magical middle-grade literature
The Last Guardian, by Eoin Colfer, at Fyrefly's Book Blog
The Last Present, by Wendy Mass, at Ms. Yingling Reads and Charlotte's Library
The Lost Kingdom, by Matthew Kirby, at Charlotte's Library
My Rotten Life, by David Lubar, at Middle Grade Mafioso
Operaton:Golden Bum (Fangs-Vampire Spy), by Tommy Donbavand, at Readaraptor
The Princess of Cortova, by Diane Stanley, at Kid Lit Geek
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu, at Waking Brain Cells, Nerdy Book Club, Book-A-Day Almanac, Fuse #8, and Ritchie's Picks
The Return of the Indian, by Lynne Reid Banksat Time Travel Times Two
Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell, at The Book Monsters
The Runaway King, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Bibliophile Support Group
The Sasquatch Escape, by Suzanne Selfors, at Reading Rumpus Book Reviews
Scare Scape, by Sam Fisher, at Library of Clean Books
The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud, at Pages Unbound
The Shadow Thieves, by Anne Ursu, at Bibliophilic Monologues
The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy, by Nikki Loftin, at Michelle Mason
Sky Jumpers, by Peggy Eddleman, at My Precious and Ms. Yingling Reads
Stanley Finnigan and the Race Around the Universe, by Dan Cuoco, at Melody & Words
Substitute Creature, by Charles Gilman, at From the Shadows
A Tale Dark and Grimm, by Adam Gidwitz, at Tales of the Marvelous
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, at Sal's Fiction Addiction
The Time Fetch, by Amy Herrick, at Jean Little Library
The Whatnot, by Stephen Bachmann, at Random Musings of Bibliophile
Wild Born (Spirit Animals Book 1), by Brandon Mull, at Bookalicious
An "abundance of children's books" at Things Mean a Lot, including Fortunatly, the Milk, The Abominables, and Mrs. Frisby and Rats of N.I.M.H.
And Maureen at By Singing Light re-reads the Dark is Rising series
Authors and Interviews
Peggy Edleman (Sky Jumpers) at The League of Extraordinary Writers and Literary Rambles (giveaway)
Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson (Starbounders) at Literary Rambles (giveaway) and Nerdy Book Club
Anne Urus (The Real Boy) at Jean Booknerd (with review and giveaway)
Jennifer Nielsen (The False Prince) at Eating Y.A. Books
Ellen Booraem (Texting the Underworld) at Cynsations (giveaway)
Margaret Peterson Haddix, at The Secret DMS Files of Fairday Morrow
Other Good Stuff
"Defending The Giver," a guest post by Elsa Ouvrar-Prettol at Teen Librarian Toolbox
Ten feline fantasies, at Views From the Tesseract
I wrote a two part post about Middle Grade blogs as "fans, gatekeepers, partners of industry, and members of a gender-imbalanced community." Part 1 is here, with link at the end to Part 2.
Kidlitcon cometh, and I goeth.
Rapunzel's Tower under construction, found at Once Upon a Blog
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