Well, here’s some fun news for a Wednesday!
The Chicago Public Library, like many libraries, does an end-of-year list thing, and Rylee has made it onto the ‘best fiction for older readers’ list. This is an EXCELLENT list, too – there are several books I’m looking forward to digging out of my own teetering TBR list, including Saadia Faruqi’s THE PARTITION PROJECT, as this is the FIRST book for children I have EVER seen, fiction or otherwise, on Partition, and I think it’s an important topic it’s hard to get some older people to talk about; Katherine Rundell’s IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES, Hena Khan’s WE ARE BIG TIME, and Kekla Magoon’s THE SECRET LIBRARY, to name just a few. I admit that I’m not always a huge fan of “best” of anything list, but as this list is actually made by staff who have READ the books and aren’t just regurgitating sales stats or whatnot, this is a great list with which to populate your own TBR list. Do check it out!
Meanwhile, I’m really proud of being included among these greats, which includes winners of the NBA and the ALA awards as well. Hooray for science, for friendship, and for a difficult book that has turned out to be one of the more satisfying that I’ve ever written. YAY, RYLEE!
