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Showing posts with label Cybils. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cybils. Show all posts
9/2/24

A blogging throwback to Nonfiction Monday starring 4 great High School nonfiction books of 2024

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 Back in the day in the golden age of children's book blogging, we used to have Nonfiction Monday.  I'm doing that today, becuase I&...
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8/18/21

Five reasons why you might want to apply to be a Cybils judge in elementary/middle grade speculative fiction!

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The call for this years Cybils Awards panelists has gone out, and anyone who reviews or talks about kids and ya books on line (blog, you tu...
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10/5/18

Diverse YA speculative fiction books not yet nominated for the Cybils Awards

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The Cybils Awards are chosen by panels of book reviewers in a variety of children's and YA book categories, based on two criteria--qual...
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8/19/15

Five reasons to apply to be a Cybils Judge (with particular referrence to middle grade spec fic)

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The call for Cybils panelists has gone out , and anyone who has a website where children's books are reviewed is welcome to apply!  If y...
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9/16/13

Presenting the 2013 Cybils Elementary and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Panelists!

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It was my job this year to choose the 2013 Cybils Elementary and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Panelists...and after much blog reading an...
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8/13/13

Apply to be a Cybils Panelist starting Thursday, or, Why 150 isn't a scary number of books

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Panelist applications for the Cybils open this Thursday!  For those who haven't been involved with the Cybils before, and not sure about...
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8/9/13

The Cybils Elementary/Middle Grade Sci Fi and Fantasy winners of years past

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The 2013 Cybils season is almost here --applications for being a panelist will open on the 15th of August, and close the 31st.  Excited abo...
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2/14/12

And the Cybils Winners are.....

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The Cybils Winners have been announced !!! I was a panelist for middle grade sci fi/fantasy, and helped come up with this shortlist: A Monst...
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1/11/12

The Skeleton's Knife, by Joni Sensel

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Earlier this week I reviewed The Jewel of the Kalderash , third in a series whose first book I helped shortlist for the Cybils in 2008. By ...
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1/7/12

The ones that got away--four mg sff books that didn't make the shortlist

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Although I'm very fond of the books on the middle grade fantasy/science fiction shortlist for the Cybils, there were (as is always the ...
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12/18/11

Kids of color in the middle grade fantasy and science fiction books of October 2010 to October 2011

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I have read around 130 middle grade fantasy and science fiction books published between October 16, 201o and October 15, 2011. 130 books we...
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11/15/11

Torn (The Missing, book 4) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Today's Timeslip Tuesday is Torn , the fourth book in The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Simon & Schuster, 2011 middle...
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11/9/11

You Have to Stop This, by Pseudonymous Bosch

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Avid readers of my blog might have noticed that there was no Timeslip Tuesday post yesterday. This is because at nine o'clock on Monday...
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10/3/11

The Cybils Middle Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy Panel

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The Cybils middle grade science fiction and fantasy panel was announced yesterday, and I'm thrilled to be a part of the first round of j...
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10/1/11

The nominations for the Cybils are open (and--when is an animal story fantasy?)

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Head over to the Cybils now to nominate your favorite books from the past year! published in the US or Canada only . published Oct. 16, 20...
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2/14/11

Congratulations to The Shadows, winner of the 2010 Middle Grade Sci Fi/Fantasy Cybils Award!

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The Cybils Award winners have been announced, and the winner of my own category of middle grade sci fi/fantasy is THE SHADOWS, Books of Else...
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1/1/11

The Cybils Elementary and Middle Grade Sci Fi Fantasy Shortlist!!!!

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For the past few months, I and my fellow panelists have been busily burrowing our way through the 150 books nominated for the Cybils Awards...
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