One of the best parts (in my opinion) of reading for the CYBILS book award, is that, as a panelist, I'm asked to read as many of the middle grade speculative fiction books published in the last year as possible. Even better, if I blog about them. So we get a list of the books and are asked to read them. Invariably, there are some that I've already read and some that are really hard to get a hold of and some that are just terrible. And some of them are complete gems that I never would ...
