Hello, dear readers! If you’re here, it’s probably because you care about quality books for kids and teens, and if so – please read on!

It’s a time of year that I look forward to with anticipation and a little bit of anxiety every year – Cybils Nominations time! I love seeing what books everyone else is excited enough about to nominate for awards, and to reading the books in my category. And I get a little nervous because there are so many excellent books published every year. As the category chair for Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction, I want every one of those excellent eligible books to be nominated. Right now there are over 250 eligible books on the Cybils Goodreads EMG Spec Fic shelf; last year, we had not quite 100 books nominated. Okay, that’s still a lot to read before December – but that’s still a lot of books left out.

You can help!! Check out the Reader Nomination Time post from the Cybils to see the eligibility requirements, how to vote, and what’s already been nominated. As we get closer to the deadline, I’ll post more about books that I’ve read that I want to be nominated, and books I want to be nominated so that I can read them.