January 3, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
Follow the Cybils Awards on most social media platforms (they're active on places other than Twitter) and be sure to check out all the finalists in each category!
November 2, 2023 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Teen librarian Karen Jensen discusses her experiences of the Cybils Awards
December 10, 2017 by Karen Jensen, MLS
Today a box of books has shown up at my doorstep and I have another group of books I have to read sometime before December 20th(ish). All in all, between the beginning of October and the end of December I will have read over 130 YA speculative fiction titles. This is Cybils time. The Cybils […]
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January 1, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This year I was very excited (and honored!) to be a first round panelist for the 2014 Cybils in the YA Speculative Fiction category. There were a little over 200 books nominated and we were tasked with getting that list down to 7 worthy candidates. As you can imagine, there is a lot of great […]
December 20, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
The month of December finds me busily trying to read over 200 YA Speculative Fiction books for the 2013 Cybils (which are awesome). I had read a lot of the nominated books, but not all. So now I am happily playing catch up. Today I present mini reviews on two books that have a plague […]
December 5, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I am reviewing this book as part of the Cybils 2013 Let’s get right to the point: I LOVED this book. It was a unique concept, delivered beautifully. And it plucked every I miss Buffy heart-string I own, which is a lot. “Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body […]
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November 28, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS
So for the second year, I am honored to be a YA Speculative Fiction judge in the Cybils. So this is what my dining room table looks like as I check out books, read, make notes, and read, then discuss, and then read some more. It is the most awesome thing. Ever. I am in […]
November 19, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS
I’d thought he was angry, and he was, a bit, but when I looked into those eyes, I saw that what I had mistaken for anger was really terror. He was even more scared that I was. Scared that without the net, his job was gone. Scared that without the net, Mum couldn’t sign on every […]
October 11, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS
This year, I am excited (and honored) to be a first round panelist (judge) for the Science Fiction and Fantasy panel of the 2012 Cybils. The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards. They are taking public nominations for awards through October 15th. You can nominate a title published between last year’s […]
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