Tag: gender

  1. Cybils Awards 2015: The Ones That Got Away (YA SF)

    Each year, the Cybils honor the best children's and YA books of the year selected by book bloggers. I'm one of the crazy people who helped launch the award ten years ago, and have been involved in some capacity every year. We just announced our finalists for 2015: the seven…

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  2. Petition to Stop Gender-labeling Books

    The UK based organization Let Toys Be Toys has started a petition on Change.org to ask publishers to stop gender-labeling books. The image above shows how such labeling can send a powerful message to kids about what’s important: beauty for girls and intelligence for boys in this case.…

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  3. Book Review: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

    Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman Twelve energy dragons protect the land, each dragon linked to a human Dragoneye, who channels the dragon’s power in exchange for giving his hua, or life energy, to the dragon. The twelve dragons represent the twelve points on the compass and the twelve…

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