Greetings from Lebanon, New Hampshire! I am here with my mother on a now-concluded Julian May pilgrimage (successful ascent of Mount Washington, successful appraisal of the Mount Washington hotel where Uncle Rogi worked, somewhat dreary appraisal of Dartmouth due to heavy rain, and visit to the intersection of Main and South where Uncle Rogi's bookstore was supposed to be).
Here's what I found in my blog reading this week; please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia and at Word Spelunking (with giveaway)
Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at Geo Librarian
The Doll People Set Sail, by Ann M. Martin, Laura Godwin, and Brett Helquist, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Eighth Day, by Dianne K. Salerni, at alibrarymama
Empire of Bones, by N.D. Wilson, at Semicolon
The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit, at Leaf's Reviews
The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker, by E.D. Baker, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Forbidden Flats, by Peggy Eddleman, at Word Spelunking
The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer Holm, at Kid Lit Geek
Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle, by George Hagen, at Waking Brain Cells
The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove, at Semicolon
Hook's Revenge, by Heidi Shulz, at My Precious and Candace's Book Blog
The Iron Trial, by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, at By Singing Light and Charlotte's Library
The Island of Legends, by Lisa McMann, at Hidden in Pages (audiobook review)
Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill, by Otfried Preussler, at Children's Book-A-Day Almanac
The League of Seven, by Alan Gatz, at Mister K Reads
Magic Thief: Home, by Sarah Prineas, at Hidden in Pages (audiobook review)
Marianne Dreams, by Catherine Storr, at Marvelous Tales
The Mysterious Howling, by Maryrose Wood, at Never Ending Stories
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Book Nut
Nuts to You, by Lynne Rae Perkins, at Challenging the Bookworm
The Ogre of Oglefort, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Kid Lit Geek
The Savage Fortress, by Sarwat Chadda, at Twinja Book Reviews
The Scavengers, by Michael Perry, at The Reading Nook Reviews
Shouldn't You Be in School?, by Lemony Snickett, at Tor
Sidekicked, by John David Anderson, at Librarian of Snark
The Terror of the Southlands, by Caroline Carlson, at Carstairs Considers and Reader of Fictions
Thursdays with the Crown, by Jessica Day George, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile and Becky's Book Reviews
The Time of the Fireflys, by Kimberley Griffiths Little, at Time Travel Times Two
Tuesdays at the Castle, by Jessica Day George, at Bunbury in the Stacks (audiobook review)
Authors and Interviews
T.A. Barron (Atlantis Rising), at Geo Libraraian (with giveaway), and at Cynsations
Lou Anders (Frostborn), with cover analysis, at Project Mayhem
P.J. Hoover (Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life) at Cynsations
Dianne K. Salerni (The Eight Day) talks about the no-man's land between MG and YA at Project Mayhem
Eden Unger Bowditch (the Young Inventors Trilogy) at Project Mayhem
Roland Smith (Mutation) at Nerdy Book Club
Other Good Stuff:
At Oz and Ends, a look at a myth about Oz's "women in strong leadership roles."
There are two MG fantasy books on the Guardian's children's fiction award shortlist-- Flora and Ulysses, by Kate DiCamillo, and The Dark Wild, by Piers Torday (incidently, my 11 year old nominated the first Torday book, The Last Wild, for the Cybils....he would have picked The Dark Wild, but it'd not eligible yet).
Speaking of the Cybils, now is the time to nominate your favorite books of the past year (Oct 16, 2013- Oct 15, 2014)! Here's what's been nominated in Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction so far...and there are still lots of worthy books out there that aren't on the list yet (and I have just made a list of some of these, lifted from Kirkus).
And once again this year, Amy at Hope is the Word is organizing an Armchair Cybils so you can play along even if you aren't a panelist.http://www.cybils.com/2014/10/2014-nominations-elementarymiddle-grade-speculative-fiction.html
I've got a review of The Orphan and the Mouse.
ReplyDeleteOh man, there are so many books I want to nominate for the Cybils.
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