The Reviews
An Author's Odyssey (The Land of Stories book 5), by Chris Colfer, at Say What?
The Bronze Key, by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, at The Book Wars
Curse of the Boggin (The Library, Book 1): D.J. MacHale, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
Eden's Escape, by M. Tara Crowl, at Word Spelunking
Escape from Wolfhaven Castle, by Kate Forsyth, at Kid Lit Reviews
Fairest, by Gail Carson Levine, at Read Till Dawn
Furthermore, by Tahereh Mafi, at Book Munchies
Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger, at Geo Librarian
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, at Abby the Librarian
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, by Christopher Healy, at The Daily Prophecy
The Hollow Boy, by Jonathan Stroud, at Sonderbooks (audiobook review)
Joshua and the Arrow Realm, by Donna Galanti, at The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow
The Littlest Bigfoot, by Jennifer Weiner, at Word Spelunking
Lug: Blast from the North, by David Zeltser, at Kid Lit Reviews
Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cute, by Ann M. Martin with Annie Parnell, at The Book Wars
Not as We Know It, by Tom Avery, at Waking Brain Cells
Nurk, by Ursula Vernon, at Got My Book
The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart, by Lauren DeStefano, at Hidden In Pages
A Posse of Princesses, by Sherwood Smith, at Leaf's Reviews
The Rat Prince, by Bridget Hodder, at On Starships and Dragonwings
The Scourge, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Charlotte's Library and Cracking the Cover
Shadow House (The Gathering Book 1), by Dan Poblocki, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Shadow Magic, by Joshua Khan, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile
Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den, by Aimée Carter at Jen Robiinson's Book Page
Talking to Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, at Lunar Rainbows
When the Sea Turned to Silver, by Grace Lin, at School Library Journal
Withering-by-Sea by Judith Rossell, at Leaf's Reviews
The Zodiac Legacy: Convergence, by Stan Lee, Stuart Moore, and Andie Tong, at The Book Monsters
Giveaways
The Littlest Bigfoot, by Jennifer Weiner, at Word Spelunking
Eden's Escape, by M. Tara Crowl, at Word Spelunking
Furtheremore, by Tahereh Mafi, at Bewitched Bookworms
Other Good Stuff
The Cybils Awards are still seeking panelists (you have until Sept. 14 to apply)! MG speculative fiction is one of the categories (with me as its organizer)....the gist of it, if you don't already know, is that panels of judges made of people who review books on line read lots and lots of books in their category between October and the end of December, and then hand over a shortlist to a second round of judges to pick the winner. If you are daunted by the idea of a reading list of 150 books, keep in mind that you will already have read lots of the, you don't have to finish a book that clearly is not working for you, and there are categories with a much easier reading load than the MG and YA Spec. Fic. and regular fiction categories! Graphic novels, for instance, is relatively easy reading-wise, and they could use some good folks..... It is a lot of fun! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.
It's time for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XI, (RIP) the seasonally appropriate reading challenge....
And speaking of Dark Stuff, here's a Tuesday Ten of it at Views from the Tesseract
Scholasitc releases the cover design for Fantastic Beasts: the Original Screenplay
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One of your posts last week inspired me and I applied to be a Cybil panelist/judge. I am still pretty new, and might not get selected, but I am trying to become more involved in the community.
ReplyDeleteI selected audiobooks as my first choice, since I didn't know if they would get a lot of applications for that one. MG Spec Fic was my 2nd choice.
I am really searching to try and find more SF selections, since the market is heavily tilted towards fantasy right now.
I saw that and was glad-- good for you! I feel there's a bit more sci fi than there was ten years ago, but I agree it's fantasy heavy.
DeleteI am planning to go through your topical lists for some possible books. And I may do some SF focused lists of my own.
DeleteDo you have a fiction list? I might have missed it, but that is what my kiddos are into. Right now they are reading Silencing Sharks by John Hope. They love it so they won't be too long finishing it.
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