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Tag Archives: dystopia
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Take your Native reading into the future with a gut-wrenching, thought-provoking post-apocalyptic teen book – The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Print, Sci-Fi, Teen/Young Adult
Tagged Canada, dystopia, Native American, teen fiction
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The Truth about Martians and the Marvelous Adventures of Gwendolyn Gray
Here’s a couple shorter takes on some more Cybils books, as I try desperately to keep up with my reading. The Truth about Martians by Melissa Savage. Crown Books, 2018. In 1947 Arizona, Mylo Affinito is still struggling to get … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print, Reviews, Sci-Fi
Tagged aliens, Arizona, dystopia, historical fantasy, pirates, steampunk, youth fantasy, youth science fiction
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Oddity and the Daybreak Bond
Here are two books that have little in common besides being contemporary speculative fiction at the middle grade level. The first I picked solely because of the adorable yet fierce kid on the cover; the second because I liked the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print, Sci-Fi
Tagged adventure, dystopia, utopia, youth fantasy, youth science fiction
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Scythe by Neal Schusterman
Scythe has been sweeping up the honors – it won the Young Adult Speculative Fiction Cybils Award, a Printz Honor, and was being talked up by my teen librarian, to boot. Scythe by Neal Schusterman. Simon & Schuster, 2016. Humanity … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Print, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Teen/Young Adult
Tagged dystopia, teen science fiction
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Want by Cindy Pon
Confession time: I have a seven page document with notes of books that I’ve read and want to write full reviews of. I’m trying to post more frequent, quick reviews to catch up. This was one of my eagerly anticipated … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Reviews
Tagged #OwnVoices, Asian, dystopia, environment, Taiwan, teen science fiction
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The Firefly Code
It was a little jarring after two years on the Round One panel for the Cybils Middle Grade Speculative Fiction to find that I had read only half of the finalists. Here’s one that I had read, thanks to Brandy … Continue reading
When We Wake
This is the last of the Cybils Speculative Fiction for Young Adults 2014 Finalists, and another one that I would probably not have picked up otherwise. It’s the sequel to When We Wake, which I have not read. Though I … Continue reading
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Tagged award winners, Cybils, diversity, dystopia, teen science fiction
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Three Cybils-nominated MG Spec Fic Books
Friends, I am still trying to catch up with all the books I read for the Cybils back in December. These books deserve their own full-length reviews, but I’m keeping it brief in the interests of getting them out there. … Continue reading
The Above World Trilogy for Multicultural Children’s Book Day
It is (OK, yesterday was) the second annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day, hosted by Valarie of Jump into a Book and Mia of Pragmatic Mom! You can go over there to see lots and lots of posts on the topics, … Continue reading
Legend
This is the audiobook I started so long ago for the 48 Hour Reading Challenge, a teen dystopia with diversity. Legend. Book 1. by Marie Lu. Read by Steven Kaplan and Mariel Stern. Penguin Audio, 2011. Legend is the first … Continue reading
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Tagged 48 hour book challenge, audiobooks, diversity, dystopia, multiculturalism, teen fiction
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