New fantasy adventure!
I'm getting down to the end of my list of books to read for CYBILS awards. I always really love being able to read for this award, but it's kind of intense-the window for reading books is pretty short (3 months) and the list of titles is pretty long (for middle grade fiction, there are usually at least 100 titles), but oh my gosh, is it worth it. Getting to read all the newest books is amazing, I'm so lucky I get to do it! Like this year, these two new titles are terrific! The first one is called "Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky" by Kwame Mbalia. This is part of a new Rick Riordan Presents series. If you by chance have never read any of Riordan's work, he started a series of books about a boy named Percy Jackson who struggled in school because it turned out his dad was a Greek god. Riordan went on to write a series about a group of kids who's parents were Roman gods and then Egyptian gods and then Norse Gods. He's now lending his name...