How to Nominate Nominations for the Cybils Awards are currently open until October 15. Anyone can nominate. The nomination criteria is as follows: Books must be published between 10/16/2021 and 10/15/2022. Books must be written for a youth audience. The books must be published in the US or Canada. Bilingual books are accepted. ONE nomination per category. A book can only be nominated 1 time, and you can only nominate […]
The big news from September is… *drum roll 🥁* I started a new job! It was totally unexpected. I got a call in August about a job I applied for at the end of April. I had completely written off the opportunity (for more reasons than just the fact that it had been three months, lol). But now I am nearly a month into it. I am back in libraryland […]
For this feature, I curate a small list of books that make me think, “I can’t believe I haven’t read that”. Then, you vote on which book I should read in the following month. I hope that I’ll be able to ‘catch up’ on certain books that I ‘should’ have read ages ago and finally be able to discuss those books with my fellow book lovers. July’s Result – When […]
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Whispering Pinesby Heidi Lang and Kati BartowskiSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Sept. 2020Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (S&S)Length: 320 pages Series: Whispering Pines #1Genre: Paranormal horrorTarget Age: +8 Summary 💬 Rae’s father vanished without a trace—and Rae knows what happened to him. But no one believes her when she says that her father didn’t run off, that he was actually taken. Now, a year of therapy later, Rae’s mother decides they need a fresh start, and so they […]
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Continuing by bookshelf tour with Tolkien, middle grade faves, Arctic exploration, Japanese religion, and assorted adult fiction and non-fiction.