Brand new titles
This week, my group voted for the titles in middle grade fiction that we wanted to move on to the next round of voting. Five titles made it into the next round and while I'm pleased with all of the titles that got through, I AM sworn to secrecy. All will be revealed VERY SOON. In the meantime, I am staying FAR, FAR away from realistic fiction at the moment. I think all of us in the group had read ENOUGH about dead parents, dead siblings, dead best friends to last for awhile. So I'm back to Netgalley and there are some really terrific titles there that aren't out yet but will be soon. The first one is called "The Goblin's Puzzle" by Andrew S. Chilton. It's about three kids, a boy and two girls named Alice. The boy doesn't have a name because he is a slave and who would bother to name a slave. He leads a slavish existence (no pun intended but he is a slave to some not very nice people) until one day, fate intervenes. The boy is a big...