So tomorrow the Newbery Award is being announced! I always like to have a spec. fic. book to root for, and this year I think the strongest, most "what I consider Newbery-worthy" book is The Witch's Boy, by Kelly Barnhill. The writing is truly rich and lovely. My second choice would be Greenglass House, by Kate Milford, but perhaps more because it is a book I personally liked than because I think the writing, qua writing, is Newbery-worthy. If you have one you are rooting for, share it in the comments!
And now, the round-up; please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews
Beastkeeper, by Kat Hellisen, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile and Me On Books
Beneath, by Roland Smith, at Charlotte's Library
The Cat at the Wall, by Deborah Ellis, at alibrarymama
Convergence (The Zodiac Legacy Book 1), by Stan Lee, at Guys Lit Wire
Dragon Castle, by Joseph Bruchac, at @HomeLibrarian
Echo, by Pam Munoz Ryan, at Hidden In Pages
Future Flash, by Kita Helmetag Murdock, at alibrarymama
The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove, at Fantasy Book Critic
The Imaginary, by A.F. Harrold, at Mom Read It
Jinx, by Sage Blackwood, at Leaf's Reviews
The Last Wild, by Piers Torday, at Granite Media
Lost in Paris (Mira's Diary, book 1), by Marissa Moss, at Pages Unbound
Maddy West and the Tongue Taker, by Brian Faulkner, at The Write Path
The Magic Half, by Annie Barrows, at Books Beside My Bed
Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
Monstrous, by MarcyKate Connolly, at Librarian of Snark
No Place for Magic, by E.D. Baker, at Leaf's Reviews
The Only Ones, by Aaron Starmer, at Time Travel Times Two
A Plague of Unicorns, by Jane Yolen, at Geo Librarian
Skeleton Man, by Joseph Bruchac, at @HomeLibrarian
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at Read Till Dawn
The Story of the Amulet, by E. Nesbit, at Charlotte's Library
The Whispering Skull, by Jonathan Stroud, at Log Cabin Library
Authors and Interviews
Dianne K. Salernie (The Inquisitor's Mark) at Just Get It Written
Peggy Eddleman (Sky Jumpers) at Go Teen Writers
Other Good Stuff
Shane Hegarty's monster hunting series, Darkmouth, has been optioned; the first book in the series, The Legends Begin, is out in the US, from HarperCollins, in April. Read more at Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books
5 Misconceptions about Sci Fi for kids, at Views from the Tesseract
Not exactly "good", but food for thought--How to Protect Yourself Online If You're a Book Blogger, at Ruth Silver (a post that resulted from an author sending her an unlicensed image)
I suggested to my husband that we start life afresh as owners of The Enchanted Forest in British Columbia....but he didn't leap at the idea, so it's still for sale.....(via Once Upon a Blog)
I am not mad about the Newbery Award, but I'm very excited for this year's nominees for the Alex Award, which I've just learned about and I am a huge partisan of it immediately. :p And of course whenever any of these awards are announced, regardless of how much I care about the prize, my TBR list expands. :p
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