... the titles nominated for the 2009 Cybils Middle Grade Fiction Award, so I’m qualified to at least have an opinion on ... , Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters by Lenore Look. Best Sports Fiction: The Brooklyn Nine by Alan Gratz or The GIrl Who Threw Butterflies ... Natural Disasters by Lenore Look. Going Green Award for the Best in Environmental Fiction: My Life in Pink and Green by Lisa Greenwald. ...

Welcome to another week's worth of middle-grade fantasy and science fiction reviews and comments from around the blogosphere. Please let me know if I missed your post! 11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass, at Dwelling in Possibility ... says this is for 7th-9th graders, so I count it as the upper limit of middle grade) The Farwalker's Quest, by Joni Sensel, at Brenda Loves ...

... ;Dear Lucky Agent" Contest: Kids Novels (Middle Grade and Young Adult) Welcome to the second "Dear Lucky Agent ... unpublished, book-length work of middle grade or young adult fiction. You must include a contact e-mail address with ... ;3. This contest is solely for completed book-length works of middle grade and young adult fiction (kids novels).   & ...

... grade books of all time (not just this year or last year) by 11:59 Eastern on January 31, 2010 ... Frog and Toad Are Friends). How do you determine if a book is middle grade? Well, I'm very fond of Powell' ... thinking of more and more and more, which shouldn't be surprising since I love middle grade fiction (shh, but I actually like it more than YA, DON'T TELL ANYONE!). Hopefully this list ...

... . Last time I was at the library it was all about graphic novels and choosing books I wouldn't normally read. The time before that it was non-fiction titles, and so on. This week, the titles that caught my eye were in the middle-grade section. I picked up Harriet the Spy because I've never read it and ...

There's a new contest for YA/middle grade novels over at the Guide to Literary Agents blog. The judge is agent Jennifer Laughran with Andrea Brown. ... You'll be e-mailing the first 150-200 words of your unpublished, book-length work of middle grade or young adult fiction. For more details, click the link. Of course, I'm entering. There's no entry fee, so why not? I've kind ...

... to focus on picture books, middle grade fiction, ya fiction, children's nonfiction, teen ... and adult nonfiction but lately I've been reading very little in the way of YA fiction. I see others talking about these great books that I keep meaning to read. ... challenge, personal goal to read more YA fiction but specifically to read some of the ones I've been meaning to. Ones I'd ...

Charlotte's Library, which is a blog specifically about fantasy and science fiction for children and teenagers, does weekly roundups of blog reviews of middle grade fantasy and science fiction. You'll also find posts there on new scifi and fantasy releases. You'll have to go through all these yourselves to work out which are science fiction, ...

Puffin Books is to launch a new teen fiction list, Razorbill, in response to the growth in sales of commercial teen fiction triggered by Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Razorbill is dedicated to middle grade and young adult books with an emphasis on fiction. Publishing between 30 and 40 titles each year, the US imprint’s best selling

Welcome to Dystopian February! Later on today I will be posting a dystopian fiction primer, but for now, I wanted to post an index of all my previous dystopian/post ... , Political Dystopia) Duprau, Jeanne: The City of Ember (Middle Grade, Series, Political Dystopia) Hegland, Jean: ... , Standalone, Political Dystopia) Lowry, Lois: The Giver (Middle Grade, Series, Political Dystopia) McCarthy, Cormac: The ...

... (see Waldorf 101 for a list of specific topics by grade) and it needs to cover more than just one topic. I am a great believer that ... an amazing historical fiction spanning the genres of medical history, European history and Middle Eastern and ... more perfect - it covers so many topics that are covered in the 8th grade Waldorf year - we are going to read it together even though my eldest is in 9th grade ...

... this essay, entitled “Holden Caulfield in Middle Age” (also available in Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, which ... This partially due to having my own reading tastes bend towards science fiction as a teen rather than the genre of Alienated Teen Literature, of ... other literary teens of the age were solving low-grade mysteries or having boy’s own adventures or what not, and, golly, they ...

... is a simplified version of the rules aimed directly at kids, and at least one 5th grade teacher has been using Monsters and Other Childish Things campaigns as projects for her gifted students. The ... orphans must uncover a series of dark plots; Curriculum of Conspiracy, about a cultist-infested middle school; and SkyMaul, a short adventure about a class trip on a vampiric airplane. This year ...

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... : 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">It started when Annabeth Bitter, fifth grade femme fatale and pigtailed Machiavelli, rolled the tire of her ten-speed into Leo’ ... ;s reaction if she ever found out that he’d abandoned Annabeth near a condemned building in the middle of a thunderstorm; once the steam stopped pouring out of her ears, he’d be grounded for weeks, if ...