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8 Ghost Books to Haunt Your Reading List in 2024
Middle Grade ghost books that came out within the past years, ranging from funny to terrifying, heart-warming to adventurous. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lists, Middle Grade
Tagged book bloggers, book lists, books, Cybils, Cybils 2024, ghosts, halloween, horror, spooky, youth fantasy
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3 Great Graphic Novels for Kids
This weekend is the A2CAF, the Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival, which I used to love helping out with back when it was still Kids Read Comics. Naturally, I’m at work at my regular library rather than there right now, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Graphic Novel, Middle Grade, Realistic
Tagged dragons, Fantasy, horror, youth graphic novels
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2014 Cybils Graphic Novels for YA Finalists
There were six finalists this year in the Cybils Graphic Novels for Young Adults category. One of them I’d already read – Shadow Hero, by Gene Luen Yang. Two of them I was unable to find through my local libraries; … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, Cybils, diversity, historical fiction, history, horror, teen graphic novels
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The Diviners
The Diviners by Libba Bray. Libba Bray comes and goes for me – I loved Going Bovine, but tried and mostly failed with more than one of the A Great and Terrible Beauty. I wasn’t quite sure which way this … Continue reading


