Cybils Update (October 30): 10/23/18

The author publisher nominations ended last Thursday. For middle grade fiction we have a total of 131 to decide from. By the end of the first month I have read twenty books, which comes to 15 percent of the total. November is the month where I will be absolutely dedicated to reading through the books on hand as well as getting as many of the books I can from the library.

The Numbers:

• Nominations: 131
• Read: 20
• Currently reading: 4
• On hand: 27

What I read last week:

• Takedown by Laura Shovan; library book
• Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo; personal collection
• Chasing Helicity by Ginger Zee; library book
• Harbor me by Jacqueline Woodson; library book
• No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen; personal collection

Currently reading:

• The Mystery of the Missing Mask by M.A. Wilson' personal collection
• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender; personal collection
• Wild Blues by Beth Kephart; personal collection
• Soof by Sarah Weeks; personal collection

What's on hand:

• Al Capone throws me a curve by Gennifer Choldenko; library book
• The rhino in right field by Stacy DeKeyser; library book
• The Mad Wolf's daughter by Diane Magras; library book
• Like Vanessa by Tami Charles; library book
• Class action by by Steven B. Frank; library book
• Wonderland by Barbara O'Connor; library book
• The Button War by Avi; library book
• Saving Winslow by Sharon Creech; library book
• Smack dab in the middle of maybe by Jo Watson Hackl; library book
• So Done by Paula Chase; personal collection
• Where the Watermelons Grow by Cindy Baldwin; personal collection
• The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage; personal collection
• The Penderwicks at Last by Jeanne Birdsall; personal collection
• The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave; personal collection
• Amal unbound by Aisha Saeed
• Boy bites bug by Rebecca Petruck
• Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai
• The Parker inheritanc Varian Johnson
• There's no base like home by Jessica Mendoza and Alana Mendoza Dusan and Ruth McNally (illustrations)
• The Bigfoot Files by Linday Eager; personal collection
• Drum roll, please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
• The not-so-boring letters of private nobody by Matthew Landis
• Tiny infinities by by J.H. Diehl
• Everything else in the universe by Tracy Holczer
• The night diary by Veera Hiranandani
• Out of left field by Ellen Klages

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