Welcome to the first MG sci fi/fantasy round up of 2024! I hope we all have a lovely reading year (especially me because last year I read and reviewed less than I have since I started blogging....)
First--here are the finalists for the 2023 Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Cybils Awards! Do consider joining in the fun next year if you haven't already.
The Reviews
The Bellwoods Game, by Celia Krampien, at Falling Letters
Crazy Creek, by Evelyn Sibley Lampman, at Charlotte's Library
The Creatures of Killburn Mine, by Dan Smith, at Scope for Imagination and Book Craic
The Curious Vanishing of Beatrice Willoughby, by G.Z. Schmidt, at Kiss the Book
The Curse of Eelgrass Bog, by Mary Averling, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Eyes and the Impossible, by Dave Eggers, at Heavy Medal
Field of Screams, by Wendy Parris, at Twirling Book Princess
Fright Bite, by Jennifer Killick, at Scope for Imagination
Gone Wolf, by Amber McBride, Heavy Medal
Graysen Foxx and the Curse of the Illuminerdy, by J. Scott Savage and Brandon Dorman, at Cracking the Cover
Harley Hitch Takes Flight, by Vashti Hardy, at Scope for Imagination
The Invisible Spy (The Forgotten Five 2) by Lisa McMann, at Mark My Words
The Last Rose (Sisters Ever After), by Leah Cypess, at Kiss the Book
The School for Invisible Boys, by Shaun David Hutchinson, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Stitch, by Pádraig Kenny, at Book Craic
We Will Comfort Them (Time School #4), by Nikki Young, at Scope for Imagination
Two at A Library Mama--The Demon Sword Asperides, by Sarah Jean Horwitz, and The Dark Lord’s Daughter, by Patricia Wrede
Authors and Interviews
Mary Averling (The Curse of Eelgrass Bog), at Literary Rambles
Linda Crotta Brennan (The Selkie's Daughter) at Teen Librarian Toolbox
Other Good Stuff
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Thanks for sharing the Cybil's finalists. I haven't read as much fantasy this year and haven't read those. And thanks for including my interview with Mary Averline in your line up. I really appreciate it. Happy New Year!
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