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12 Spec Fic Books for Teen Boys Starring Girls

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Katy K.

Way back in November, I wrote a list of my top ten fantasy books for middle grade boys starring girls. It’s taken me a while to put this companion list together – but here are a dozen favorite fantasy and … Continue reading →

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Tankborn

Posted on June 7, 2014 by Katy K.

This is the third book I read for this year’s 48 Hour Book Challenge. I heard about it from the Book Smugglers a while back and asked my library to buy it last December… so it’s about time I got … Continue reading →

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Cress

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Katy K.

Cress. Lunar Chronicles Book 3. by Marissa Meyer. Feiwel and Friends, 2014. In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, we finally meet Cress, short for Crescent Moon, the girl who risked so much to warn Cinder about the Lunar … Continue reading →

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The Shadow Society

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Katy K.

I very much enjoyed Rutkoski’s Cabinet of Wonders, which is why I checked this out for teen Cybils reading, though it took me a bit to get to it. The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2012. … Continue reading →

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Goliath

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Katy K.

Here is the audiobook that I spent much of the 48 Hour Book Challenge listening to, though it took me another couple weeks to actually finish it. It’s also the last book in a series that I started two years … Continue reading →

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Interview with Martin Berman-Gorvine

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Katy K.

I’m very excited to share with you today an interview with Martin Berman-Gorvine, author of Seven Against Mars. (In case you missed it, here’s my review of Seven Against Mars.) Katy: What’s your elevator speech for Seven Against Mars? Do … Continue reading →

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Seven Against Mars

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Katy K.

Seven Against Mars by Martin Berman-Gorvine Here’s the official plot description: Trapped in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, teenager Rachel Zilber escapes the horror by writing about the adventures of Zap-Gun Jack and Princess Anya of Mars. When her parents … Continue reading →

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Crewel

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Katy K.

Look! It’s a fiber-related dystopian fantasy/sci-fi novel! Crewel. Crewel World Book 1. by Gennifer Albin. Albin takes some modern teen dystopia tropes and mixes them up with her own take on Greek mythology. Arras is an extremely patriarchal world, where … Continue reading →

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Scarlet

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Katy K.

This is Meyer’s second fairy tale/sci-fi/dystopian romance series. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer. Lunar Chronicles Book 2. Cinder left our heroine, Cinder, in jail, exposed as a Lunar and a cyborg, and newly imparted with the knowledge that she is the … Continue reading →

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Cinder

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Katy K.

I picked this up thinking it looked like steampunk. It’s more cyberpunk than steampunk, but still fun a fun fairy tale/sci-fi mashup. Cinder by Marissa Meyer. Read by Rebecca Soler. Obviously, we know going into this story that it’s a … Continue reading →

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