All about the Cybils 2021 Happy New Year! Today the 2021 Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards) finalists are announced. It’s been a little while since I blogged about the Cybils, so here’s a quick recap of how the awards work: Anyone can nominate one book per category Round 1 judges create a shortlist of 5-7 titles per category Round 2 judges select a winner Judges comes from […]
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2021 Releases | Owned Books | TBR Posts Welcome to my second post for Unread November. Find the details here. tl;dr on Sundays in November I’m posting about books I didn’t read this year. For today’s post, I scrolled through my to-read-middle-grade shelf, sorted by most recent publication date first. I picked the first 25 titles that instantly jumped out to me (“Oooh, I remember wanting to read that!”). This strategy took […]
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Too Bright to Seeby Kyle LukoffSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: 20 Apr. 2021Publisher: Dial Books (PRH)Length: 192 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: 8+#OwnVoices: Trans boy Summary 💬 It’s the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in […]
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All You Knead is Loveby Tanya GuerreroSource: ebook/NetgalleyPublished: 30 Mar.Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (Macmillan)Length: 384 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: 9+#OwnVoices: Filipino Spanish representationI received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. Summary 💬 Twelve-year-old Alba doesn’t want to live with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona. But her mother needs her to be far, far away from their home in New York City. Because this is the year that her mother is going […]
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Preamble This post sat in my drafts for just over a year. Cybils judging introduced me to Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow in January 2019. I had heard some buzz around the book prior to that. I thought it couldn’t possibly be as good as everyone made it out to be. Hah! Well. I had good intentions to review the book after it was announced the Cybils winner, but […]