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I have an interview in an hour! I am nervous! So I'm distracting myself here on DW!

I just read Monica Furlong's Wise Child for the first time and absolutely loved it. I'll definitely be reading Juniper as soon as I can get my hands on it and will perhaps write a post about them after that. (I seem to remember someone telling me that Colman wasn't very good? I may skip that one.)

Anyway, it stirred my ever-renewing love for really wonderful middle grade fiction. I'm planning on rereading The Gone-Away Lake books soon and also Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea.

But do y'all have some more MG books to rec me? Especially stuff that was written after the mid-90s (which was when I stopped reading MG books for the most part) but also some classics that are more obscure that you think I may not have read. A lot of my favorites are saved either here or here if you want to see what I've read/what I'm into. I am a big Frances Hardinge fan, too, if that gives you an idea of my taste, but she's really the only currently-writing MG author that I have discovered.

I am looking for either fantasy/scifi or historical fiction books--I just don't read contemporary-set fiction for any age group.