Super fun new speculative fiction
I'm super excited to get to be a part of the CYBILS awards this year. In case you don't know what that is, CYBILS is a group of people who blog about literature for young people and each year, they give out several awards in different categories. I'm SO lucky this year to get to be part of the first round panelists for speculative fiction (which some people call fantasy fiction). I've got a lot of reading to do over the next few weeks, but I thought I'd share a couple of the best ones here. My first new favorite is science fiction. It's called "We're Not From Here" by Geoff Rodkey. This story starts with Lan, who is living with his (or possibly her-in the book, Lan's gender is never specified, which was amazing to me!) family on Mars. Earth has become uninhabitable and Mars is on it's way to also becoming uninhabitable. Happily, there is another planet (very far away) that is willing to take them. So Lan's family along with an...