{"id":16664,"date":"2013-01-28T16:32:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T00:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16664"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T00:32:34","slug":"rachel-swirskys-ya-mg-novel-recommendations-2012-distilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=16664","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Swirsky’s YA & MG Novel Recommendations 2012, Distilled"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the distilled list of my young adult and middle grade novel recommendations from 2012<\/a>, for people who just want to see titles for reference.<\/p>\n

PROBABLY ON MY BALLOT:<\/p>\n

The Drowned Cities<\/a> by Paolo Bacigalupi
\nThe Diviners<\/a> by Libba Bray
\nVessel<\/a> by Sarah Beth Durst
\nSeraphina<\/a> by Rachel Hartman<\/p>\n

POSSIBLY ON MY BALLOT: <\/p>\n

Shadow and Bone<\/a> by Leigh Bardugo
\nAsk the Passengers<\/a> by A. S. King
\nEvery Day<\/a> by David Levithan
\nThe Broken Lands<\/a> by Kate Milford
\nA Confusion of Princes<\/a> by Garth Nix<\/p>\n

OTHER BOOKS I HAPPILY RECOMMEND:
\n(a partial list)<\/p>\n

Dark Companion<\/a> by Maria Acosta
\nHereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite<\/a> by Barry Deutsch
\nRadiant Days<\/a> by Elizabeth Hand
\nAnd All the Stars<\/a> by Andrea Host
\nThe Brides of Rollrock Island<\/a> by Margo Lanagan
\nCinder<\/a> by Melissa Meyer
\nDays of Blood and Starlight<\/a> by Laini Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the distilled list of my young adult and middle grade novel recommendations from 2012, for people who just want to see titles for reference. PROBABLY ON MY BALLOT: The Drowned Cities by Paolo Bacigalupi The Diviners by Libba … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16665,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16664\/revisions\/16665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}