Author Archives: Greg Pattridge

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About Greg Pattridge

Climbing another mountain...always striving to reach the next peak in my life and career.

BLACKBIRD FLY (a 2015 Cybils Finalist)

Four female – one male protagonist. The settings: London, San Francisco, Vietnam, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Together they make up the five finalists for this year’s Middle Grade Fiction Cybils Awards. Each day this week I’ll have a review of each … Continue reading →

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FOOTER DAVIS PROBABLY IS CRAZY (A 2015 CYBILS Finalist)

Four female – one male protagonist. The settings: London, San Francisco, Vietnam, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Together they make up the five finalists for this year’s Middle Grade Fiction Cybils Awards. Each day this week I’ll have a review of each … Continue reading →

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BOOK SCAVENGER (A 2015 Cybils Finalist)

Four female – one male protagonist. The settings: London, San Francisco, Vietnam, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Together they make up the five finalists for this year’s Middle Grade Fiction Cybils Awards. Each day this week I have a review of each … Continue reading →

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THE BLACKTHORN KEY (The 2015 Cybils Winner)

Four female – one male protagonist. The settings: London, San Francisco, Vietnam, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Together they make up the five finalists for this year’s Middle Grade Fiction Cybils Awards. This week I have a review of each title: TODAY: … Continue reading →

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An Upcoming Cybils Celebration Giveaway

Next week the winners in each category of this year’s Cybil Awards will be revealed. I am most excited for the category I worked on: Middle Grade Fiction. Myself and four other dedicated judges read each of the titles. We … Continue reading →

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SOAR for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

Many parts of this new story will likely make you soar with the touching narration by Jeremiah, a 12-year-old baseball fanatic and heart transplant survivor. He is funny, perceptive, and sees the world in ways others only understand after he … Continue reading →

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RUBY LEE & ME for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

I won an ARC of this book last year courtesy of THE WRITE STUFF. Rosi Hollinbeck is the creator of that blog and shares many of the reviews she does for the San Francisco and Sacramento Book Reviews. Go check … Continue reading →

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FIVE FOR THE FUTURE

I raced through the five Cybils finalists earlier this month giving me an opportunity to tackle the healthy stack of books in my TBR (to be read) pile. I also have an eye on the future and books yet to … Continue reading →

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CRENSHAW for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

This book has been on my TBR pile for several months, added there after reading reviews by two other MMGM bloggers (Ms. Yingling Reads and Andrea Mack). Removing this book not only lowered my future read count but also helped … Continue reading →

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I DON’T KNOW HOW THE STORY ENDS for Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

Adults will likely swoon over this story while most kids will just shrug, never giving the book a chance. It’s a period piece set in early Hollywood during the time of World War I. An undergraduate elective class I took … Continue reading →

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