This year’s winning title in the category of Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction is Shadow Magic by Joshua Khan, a tale of outlaws, sorcery, adventure…and a giant bat. Round 1 judge Brandy Painter reviewed this one back in the fall on her blog Random Musings of a Bibliophile:
“The world Khan created for the book is incredibly interesting and the way he presents it shows a lot of thought went in to it. He is one of those authors that is good at conveying the depths of his world building without feeling the need to explain it all.”