Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating today!  I hope you have lots of books waiting for you under the tree (many of our presents are enticingly book shaped) and lots of cookies (or whatever you like to eat) to go with them (but carefully; I was already careless with a book I'm giving and wanted to read first, and left it next to a cup of tea, which a kitten investigated, and now that book has a sort of blurry kitten tea paw print on it...fortunatly not a valuable first edition!)

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The Last Human, by Lee Bacon

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The Last Human , by Lee Bacon (middle grade, Abrams, Oct 8, 2019), is set in a future in which robots exterminated humanity to save the earth from environmental destruction.  Now the robots live peaceful lives, carrying out their duties, and every day the President reminds them via its universally shared messages just how horrible humans were, and how good robots always do what they are supposed to do (which includes never keeping secrets). 12-year-old XR_935 is a good robot, working with his team-mates to install and maintain solar panels every day, then going home to their family units to recharge.  Each has a role--Ceeron is the brawn of the group, lifting and carrying, zippy little SkD is the electrical engineer, and XR-935 is the analytical one, making sure all the numbers work.  Then one day their peaceful lives are disrupted when an Unknown Lifeform comes into the solar field where they are working. It is an unthinkable lifeform, a human girl called Emma.  Em...
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Beautiful Decay

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by: Sylvia Lewis This book has a pretty good start.  Ellie is a girl that seems to make everyone she touches sick.  She has no friends and she's fine with that.  Then a new kid, Nate, comes.  They becomes friends, as you might have guessed.  Then Nate tells Ellie that there are more people like her and that she actually works with life.  He works with death which is why he knows about this.  Everything is going well until things happen with Nate's family -- his father worked in a secret organization of these special people.  Then the end comes and is rather silly.  The book was doing pretty will with the viviomancer-necromancer thing but then this secret organization ends up being pretty stupid. This book is a 2.5 .  It had a good potential but the characters and plot weren't complex enough.  It was too simple.  It was sort of like a souffle that is growing and growing but then because the baker forgot to add something it simpl...
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The Shortlisted Elementary/Middle Grade speculative fiction books for the 2019 Cybils Awards!

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Today's the day for the announcements of the 2019 Cybils Awards Shortlists!  I'm the category organizer for Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction, and I'm so proud of our love list of seven books! Cog , by Greg van Eekhout The Dark Lord Clementine , by Sarah Jean Horwitz Homerooms and Hall Passes , by Tom O'Donnell Love Sugar Magic: A Sprinkle of Spirits , by Anna Meriano Sal and Gabi Break the Universe , by Carlos Hernandez Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky , by Kwame Mbalia We're Not From Here , by Geoff Rodkey Thanks so much to my fellow first round panelists: Debbie Tanner, The Booksearch Beth Mitchell, Imaginary Friends Jennifer Miller, Raise Them Righteous Sondra Eklund, Sonderbooks Now it's over to the round 2 judges, who have to pick just one to be the winner!  The announcement's on February 14. And if you think it sounds like fun to read over 100 elementary/mg sci fi and fantasy books, and pick seven, you are right and should apply to b...
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