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Now that the Cybils winners are all official ‘n stuff, I can review the finalists from the Middle Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction category. Here they are, in one speedy blowout:

The Prince of Fenway Park, Julianna Baggott
Check this premise, people: the famous Curse on [...]

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For the last month I’ve been reading middle grade fantasy & science fiction and discussing it with my fellow panelists, but I couldn’t blog about any of it. Now the winners are official! Yay!
Our Middle Grade F & SF winner is a sequel, Dreamdark: Silksinger by Laini Taylor. I don’t really do [...]

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Due to a conflict of interest, I’ve switched into the Middle Grade Fantasy & Science Fiction category. I’m totally excited, if for no other reason than that the books are shorter.
The fabulous finalists are:
11 Birthdays, Wendy Mass
Dreamdark: Silksinger, Laini Taylor
The Farwalker’s Quest, Joni Sensel
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
The Prince of [...]

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Good morning, 2010! The Cybils elves were hard at work over New Year’s, and we now have a list of the 2009 finalists!
The YA Fantasy and Science Fiction finalists are:
Candor, by Pam Bachorz
The Demon’s Lexicon, by Sarah Rees Brennan
The Dust of 100 Dogs, by A. S. King
Fire, by Kristin Cashore
Lips Touch, by Laini Taylor
Sacred [...]

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Sixth grader Miranda walks home with her best friend every day, helps her mom study for her $20,000 Pyramid debut, and reads A Wrinkle in Time over and over again. But suddenly her life is full of odd characters: the crazy man under the mailbox on her street, and the kid who punches her [...]

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The premise is pretty cool: unicorns are vicious killers which were wiped out several generations ago… but now they seem to be back, attacking people in the modern world. Our heroine joins up with a group of… Slayers, basically, who all have a Great Destiny (blech) to send the unicorns back to extinction.
In the [...]

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Here’s the Science Fiction & Fantasy list — damn, that’s a lot of books! I’m glad I’m not on the Round I panel! …Er, I mean, what a fabulous list. I’m so sorry I won’t be reading all of them. :) Good luck, Round I team!
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Good news: because what I need in life is another responsibility because I heart books and having opinions about them, I’m rocking the Cybils awards again this year! The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, and, as the name would imply, they are handed out by panels of bloggers like [...]

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…If you are Rapunzel’s Revenge (Graphic Novel: Elementary/Middle Grade) or Emiko Superstar (GN: Young Adult), that is!

I’m super-excited about both of these: they were two of my personal favorites. (I even gave Rapunzel’s Revenge to my friend Kate Diamond as part of her wedding present, a bad-ass redhead for a bad-ass redhead.)
Congratulations to all [...]

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Quickie backlog Cybils review:
Beautifully detailed line drawings and a wordless story featuring young Ivy “and her gifted Korgi cub, Sprout.” The Characters page in the back describes Korgis as “loyal, fox-like creatures with big ears and large smiles.” Do they look an awful lot like Welsh corgis? Gosh, they do! Does [...]

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