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Tag Archives: mythology
Stories, Stars, and Grandparents: When You Trap a Tiger and the Magic in Changing Your Stars
I love it when happy accidents like this happen – two very different books with similar themes popping up back-to-back in my TBR. Here we have two stories involving stories, stars, and close grandparent-grandchild relationships. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print, Reviews
Tagged dancing, grandparents, Harlem, mythology, tigers, time travel, youth fantasy
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Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia
I read Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the 2019 Cybils Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Winner, near the end of February this year… just a month out from what would have been KidLitCon had not 2020 intervened. So … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Fantasy, Middle Grade
Tagged African, African-American, Kwame Mbalia, mythology, Rick Riordan, youth audiobooks, youth fantasy
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Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia is a dark but funny tale of monsters of Mexican myth and the preteens who battle them to rescue their friends perfect for your Halloween reading. Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Reviews
Tagged Arizona, Mexican-American, mythology, Rick Riordan, Tehlor Kay Mejia, youth fantasy, youth horror
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Adventures with Charlie Hernández
Here are the first two books in a new contemporary mythology-based series perfect for Rick Riordan fans, the Charlie Hernandez series by Ryan Calejo. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print
Tagged Florida, Latino/a, Latinx, mythology, Rick Riordan, Ryan Calejo, youth fantasy
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Modern Life with Gods: Race to the Sun and Maya and the Rising Dark
Here are two books from my #CybilsReadDown pile, both exciting contemporary fantasy in which modern-day kids find that their culture’s traditional Gods are, let’s say, highly relevant to their present lives. Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Read by … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print
Tagged African-American, Chicago, mythology, Native American, Navajo
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The Chaos Curse by Sayantani DasGupta.
So far (as usual), I’m doing a better job of keeping up with reading than reviewing for my #CybilsReadDown challenge. I have Charlotte of Charlotte’s Library to thank for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of this again, though it came out … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Challenges, Fantasy, Format, Genre, Middle Grade, Print
Tagged #OwnVoices, mythology, Norse mythology, South Asian, youth fantasy
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Game of Stars by Sayantani DasGupta
Game of Stars. Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond 2 by Sayantani DasGupta. Scholastic, 2019. New Jersey middle schooler Kiran – aka Princess Kiranmala of the Kingdom Beyond – returns in the second volume of the series that began with The … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print
Tagged mythology, South Asian, youth fantasy
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Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
Science fiction mixes with Korean mythology in this book by acclaimed adult SF writer Yoon Ha Lee. Of course I had to read it! Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee. Read by Kim Mai Guest. Rick Riordan Presents/Listening Library, 2019. … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Sci-Fi
Tagged Asian-American, mythology, youth fantasy, youth science fiction
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The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes
The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes. Disney-Hyperion 2018. Zane Obispo has never been able to make friends at his school in New Mexico due to his limp – one of the reasons he adopted his dog Rosie, who’s missing a … Continue reading
Posted in Audiobook, Books, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Print, Reviews
Tagged Latino/a, mythology, youth fantasy
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