Another year gone, another Cybils season ended. My panel is got together (virtually, of course) to decide/finalize our shortlists yesterday.I’m excited; I love this part of the process and we have a great shortlist! Though I think I’m going to take a bit of a break from middle grade fantasy. I have both S. and The Rosie Project on tap right now.

My favorite this month was one of the middle grade ones, but since that’d give away some of our shortlist, I’m going to pick my other favorite:

Just One Year

I’m a sucker for a romance that takes me all over the world.

As for the rest:

Middle Grade:

Beholding Bee

The Garden Princess

How to Catch a Bogle

How I Became a Ghost

The Screaming Staircase

The Lost Heir

Magic Marks the Spot

Parched

The Real Boy

Rose

Sidekicked

Sky Jumpers

What We Found in the Sofa and How it Saved the World

The True Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp

The Vengekeep Prophecies

The Wells Bequest

The Year of Shadows

YA:

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Adult:

Absolution by Murder

Longbourn (audio)

Stay tuned for my best of the year post tomorrow and then the Cybils shortlists on Wednesday. And then 2014! Wow. The question is: how long will it take me to remember to write ’14 as the date?