This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi from around the blogs (9/1/19)

Nothing from me this week; it was "taking kid back to college" time. But here's what I found on other blogs! Let me know if I missed your post. And just a reminder--you have a little less than 2 weeks to apply to be a judge in this year's Cybils Awards! I'd love to welcome new folks to the Middle Grade Speculative Fiction team!

The Reviews

The Author's Blood by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry (The Wormling #5) at Say What?

The Battle, by Karuna Riazi, at Muslim Reads

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

Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation, by Stuart Gibbs, at Geo Librarian

City of Ghosts, by Victoria Schwab, at proseandkahn

Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Ms. Yingling Reads and Word Spelunking

The Dragon Princess, by E.D. Baker, at Puss Reboots

The Little Grey Girl (The Wild Magic Trilogy #2) by Celine Kiernan, at Log Cabin Library

Oh, Rats! by Tor Seidler, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Riverland, by Fran Wilde, at alibrarymama

Shadow School: Archimancy, by J.A. White, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts, by Charles Kowalski, at Rosi Hollinbeck

Authors and Interviews

Heather Kassner (The Bone Garden) at Spooky MG

Ryan Calejo (Charlie Hernadez and the League of Shadows) at Two Chicks On Books

Karuna Riazi (The Battle) at Middle Grade Minded

Other Good Stuff

a new trailer for His Dark Materials, via Tor

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Formerly Shark Girl

by Kelly Bingham Formerly shark girl is a truly beautiful book written in verse. It is the story of a girl who lost her arm in a shark attack as she fights her way through her senior year. She is an amazingly determined character, who any teen can relate to, especially her struggles with her dreams and choosing a college. Unlike some books where things are a bit to cliche or overly dramatic, I think this really hit recovery from a major injury right on. She works long and hard to bring her painting skills back to what they were, since she lost her right hand, and struggles in science with tweezers during a dissection. The small things that don't seem that important and Jane's reaction to them is perfect. I especially loved her conviction that she is fine, that she has moved passed it and her determination to prove herself. When she faces water for the first time, a large swimming pool, and is too proud to admit how her whole world collapsed, I saw a lot of myself in her. I know...

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Parched

Written by: Georgia Clark Gulp down a tall glass of H2O and some water crackers for this one! Yay for sci-fi/adventure/romance/dystopian original novels! Seriously, I really liked this book. Clark is a charismatic writer, and her characters are complex and fun to get to know. Tessendra Rockwood is a spoiled rich girl who (for reasons initially unknown) leaves the protective dome of her city, Eden, to camp out in the Badlands. The contrast is horrifying; people in Eden live clean, happy lives and have an abundance of precious water, while in the Badlands children fight over the smallest sip of muddy liquid. Tessendra is eventually found by a member of the rebel group Kudzu, who are intent on ending the growing inequality. She returns home and lives with her uncle, who she thinks may be helping Eden keep the water in and the Badlanders out. She works undercover with the Kudzu, and eventually hatches a plan to help free the water, all while balancing her time studying at home with her Unc...

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Doon

By: Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon Once again I found myself reading a romance. This is not exactly my genre. While I can admire romances in books with intricate plots, romances just don't do the same thing for me. In general, I find it annoying when one character is constantly thinking about another. This was an average romance. The main character Veronica was in love with another character, Jamie, the entire time. There was some suspense and action but most of it was about the romance, which makes sense, because Doon is a romance. I won't say it was an extraordinary romance but it also didn't fall short. Veronica is a girl from the United States. Her dad left her when she was 12, her mom is marrying someone she hates, and her boyfriend just left her. Overall, her life is pretty bad. Her friend Kenna takes her to Scotland for the summer where they discover a magical world called Doon. Doon passes time at about...

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