![]() ![]() With the help of the LegendaryTech company, people undertook drastic measures to survive, genetically altering themselves to live in extreme environments. In the dark and distant future (cue the ominous music), the formerly habitable parts of Earth are no longer so welcoming. But I’d really been wanting to read this series, and didn’t want to spoil it by starting at the end – so in I jumped! I felt a little bit guilty reading this one, as it was the middle of the Cybils judging period, and only the last book of this trilogy was nominated this year. This answers two needs that I see – one, for genre fiction that’s just as diverse as the world today, and another, for exciting dystopian books for kids of 10 and up who really want to read them but maybe aren’t quite ready for full-on Hunger Games yet.Ībove World by Jenn Reese. ![]() I’m highlighting one of my very favorite series from 2014, a dystopian series that’s very happily good for older elementary and middle school kids, as well as teens. You can go over there to see lots and lots of posts on the topics, both wonderful book lists and thoughts about why diversity in publishing, especially for kids, is so very important. ![]() It is (OK, yesterday was) the second annual Multicultural Children’s Book Day, hosted by Valarie of Jump into a Book and Mia of Pragmatic Mom! ![]()
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