The Reviews
11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass, at Read Till Dawn
Alistair Grim's Odditorium, by Gregory Funaro, at Mom Read It
The Blood of Olympus, by Rick Riordan, at A Reader of Fictions and Fyrefly's Book Blog
The Castle Behind Thorns, by Merrie Haskell, at Sonderbooks
The Chosen Prince, by Diane Stanley, at The Social Potato
Everblaze, by Shannon Messenger, at Carstairs Considers
Fairylicious, by Tiffany Nicole Smith, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate Saunders, at Educating Alice
A Hero for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi, at Hidden in Pages (audiobook review)
The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, by Christopher Healy, at Good Books and Good Wine (audiobook review)
How to Train Your Dragon, by Cressida Cowell, at Good Books and Good Wine (audiobook review)
The Left Behinds and the Cell Phone that Saved George Washington, by David Potter, at Mom Read It
Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Hidden in Pages
A Plague of Bogles, by Catherine Jinx, at Wandering Librarians
Rouge Knight, by Brandon Mull, at Fantasy Literature
Smasher, by Scott Bly, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Swap, by Megan Shull, at Guys Lit Wire
The Terror of the Southlands, by Caroline Carlson, at This Kid Reviews Books
Twin Spell, aka Double Spell, by Janet Lunn, at Charlotte's Library
Whatever After-Fairest of All, by Sarah Mlynowski, at Wondrous Reads
Other Good Stuff
The Cybils Awards Shortlists are up! Here are the seven books chosen in Elemenatary/Middle Grade Spec. Fic.
Graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks shows us what really happened in A Wrinkle in Time, at Tor
There are lots of good middle grade spec. fic. books on the Nerdys list
I love Sherry's alternate Speculative Fiction awards here at Semicolon!
"Why we need science fiction for kids" at Views from the Tesseract
And also at Views from the Tesseract, a look back at some diverse titles in MG Spec Fic from 2014
And finally, "Monsters in America"-- a map showing where to find them via BoingBoing, available at Hog Island Press
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Nesbit fans might want to check-out my review of Five Children on the Western Front (https://medinger.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/kate-saunders-five-children-on-the-western-front/).
ReplyDeleteThanks Monica- I've stuck it in. Strangly, I read your post (though lightly, cause of being in the middle of the book myself) and didn't think of the book as "fantasy" though of course it is...
DeleteWhat! No Beast of Bray Road for Wisconsin?!?
ReplyDeleteWell I can't even think of anything they are leaving out for RI, so you have us beat at least....
DeleteBeast of Bray Road is local - Bray Road is about 10 minutes from the library. and really, it's stupid - a bunch of drunk teenage girls saw a beast that made them wreck their car. riiiiiight. but they made a (horrible) movie out of it and we get calls all the time. i had one very irate patron from missouri who wanted me to give him more details - when it came out, how often had i seen it, was it more active at the full moon, and when i finally said "it's an urban legend. like bigfoot" i got a furious "i've been on umpteen bigfoot hunts and i know he exists because i've seen all the evidence and you're not being helpful" (although I'd told him multiple times to contact the local expert, who's got a book and website and everything). he called back three times trying to find someone more knowledgeable than me (-:)
ReplyDeleteThere's a monster named Bessie, seriously?
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