The Cybils finalist lists are out! Check out the site for the top picks in categories from young adult, to picture books, to poetry and more. Dawn and I were thrilled to be invited back to serve as Cybils round I judges this year, her in fiction picture books and me in middle grade fiction….
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Promise the Night
Everyone knows the name Amelia Earhart, but what about Beryl Markham? She was one of the first women to get a commercial pilot’s license, and one of the first to successfully make a solo flight from Europe to North America. Promise the Night by Michaela McColl is a middle grade novel that looks at her…
One Moment, One Morning (with Giveaway)
In One Moment, One Morning, Sarah Rayner explores the role of friendship in three women’s lives. In one moment on one morning, their lives intersect when 40-something Karen’s husband Simon has a heart attack on the commuter train to London. Lou, a 30-something, is on the same car and witnesses it. When everyone has to…
On Reading: My Own Personal Reading Challenge
Do you participate in reading challenges (If you’d like to share — link your challenge goals in the comment for as many challenges as you are participating in this year)? I love the community and the focus of reading challenges, but since so much of my reading is skewed by review reading (and I’m fine…
School Stories
Kids and adults like to read what’s real to them. All of these middle grade fiction novels have a strong school setting. However, they are so different — from a wide range of appeal (on for 7 – 8 year olds and another for 12+), the themes, and the writing style. Warp Speed Middle-schooler Marley…
The World We Found, Review and Giveaway
After “discovering” Thrity Umrigar when I read her last book The Weight of Heaven, I was excited to read what she had to offer next with The World We Found. These books are completely different, so if you didn’t like the shocking, hopeless tone of The Weight of Heaven (which completely riveted me from the…
What’s on Your Nightstand, December 27
The post-holiday Nightstand posts are usually a little sparsely attended, but I’m inviting you to gear up for the first month of 2012, and let us know what you are going to be reading this next month. If you need some suggestions for your list, you can visit around the other Nightstand posts, and then…
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