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This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (8/25/19)

Welcome to this round-up of what I found in my blog reading this week!  Please let me know of any posts I missed.

First up--the call for judges for the Cybils Awards has gone up!  Since 2006, the
Cybils has recognized kids and YA books that combine both literary merit and kid appeal in a variety of categories, and one of these is Middle Grade Speculative Fiction (the category I organize)!  There are two rounds of judging, the first creating a shortlist, and the second picking the winner, and so there's room for lots of folks to join in and be part of the judging panels!  It is lots of fun.  So much so that many of the same folks want do Middle Grade Speculative Fiction every year, and although I love them dearly, it would be great to have some fresh volunteers!

All you have to do to be eligible is to review books somewhere on line--podcasting, book tubbing, blogging, Goodreads reviews, Instagram, etc.

Teens are eligible too (with parents permission if under 18), and being one of the judges for a nationally recognized book award looks great on a college application.....

Here's a post I wrote with more information, and please let me know directly if you have any questions!

The Reviews

Babysitting Nightmares, books 1-3,by Kat Shepherd, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The Battle, by Karuna Riazi, at Pages Unbound and A Dance With Books

Cape (The League of Secret Heroes book 1), by Kate Hannigan, at The Children's War

Changling (The Oddmire 1) by William Ritter, at Charlotte's Library

Crumbled! by Lisa Harkrader, at Pages Unbound

Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, at alibrarymama

Game of Stars. Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond 2, by Sayantani Dasgupta, at alibrarymama

The Haunting of Henry Davis, by Kathryn Siebel, at Always in the Middle

Hidden Scales (Merrows Book 1), by A.M. Robin, at Pages for Thoughts

The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Read Till Dawn

The House on Parchment Street, by Patricia McKillip, at Fantasy Literature

The Jumbie God's Revenge, by Tracy Baptiste, at J.R.'s Book Reviews

The Lost Girl, by Anne Ursu, at alibrarymama and Semicolon

Mightier than the Sword, by Drew Callander and Alana Harrison, at Always in the Middle

The Minions of Time (The Wormling #4), byJerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry, at Say What?

Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson, at Girl With Her Head in a Book

 Princess Who Flew With Dragons, by Stephanie Burgis, at Moon Dreams

The Secrets of Winterhouse, by Ben Guterson, at Puss Reboots

Silver Batal and the Water Dragon Races, byK.D. Holbrook, at Say What?

Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy, at proseandkahn

Spark, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Susan Uhlig

The Storm Runner, by J.C. Cervantes, at Geo Librarian

The Unbelievable Oliver and the Four Jokers, by Pseudonymous Bosch, at Geo Librarian

Two at Mom Read It--Hello, Neighbor, by Carly Anne West, and In the Land of Broken Time, by Max Even

Authors and Interviews

Kate Hannigan (Cape) at Middle Grade Ninja

Other Good Stuff

SCBWI has a new grant for writers of mg sci fi and fantasy

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