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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The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love

By: Dyan Sheldon Genre: YA fiction, School Lit Cody is perhaps the coolest, most gorgeous, charismatic and dynamic teen ever to walk through the pages of YA fiction. When he transfers into Clifton Springs High School hearts are set afire, and the Environmental Club will never be the same. Which girl will win his heart? There are three who are about to start an epic quest for love. This is one of the most delightful YA novels I have read in years. The clash of cliques is genuine and the pursuit of love single-minded and realistic. Even better was the deft weave of environmental education. Dyan Sheldon should be commended for not only telling a great story, but for effectively embedding the environmental message of "reduce, reuse, recycle." The gradual evolution of environmental awareness among the main characters, as well as the school and community, was authentic. Best of all was the highly satisfactory ending. The Crazy Things Girls do for Love should be part of every hig...

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This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (5/5/19)

Welcome to this week's round-up; please let me know if I missed your post! Here's why I do these round-ups-- --for selfish reasons I started because I wanted someone else to present me with all the mg sff reviews, but had to do it myself --for another reason I want to connect with all the other folks reviewing mg sff so that I can plug the Cybils Awards . I'm the Cybil's organizer for the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category, and in just a few months, the call for Cybils Awards panelists will be going out. I love all the panelists that have joined me in years past, but it would be great to have some fresh faces, and I would really love more diversity in my group of panelists. You don't have to have a blog, just an online platform you use to talk about books (goodreads, youtube, podcasting, Instagram, etc.) In the first round, which is most of the reading, we keep it to folks in North America, but international folks can be second round panelists ...

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Tim Defender of the Earth

By: Sam Enthoven Imagine a giant bowl of green Jello. You find it amusing for no other reason than the way it jiggles back and forth after just a slight tap. This is sort of how I feel about Tim Defender of the Earth . It was amusing but I not always because of the actual content of the book. Sometimes just the idea of what was happening was funny. Tim Defender of the Earth was a book about a giant dinosaur who British scientists created beneath London. He learns that he is and ho to be the Defender of the Earth from a giant 9 million year old kraken. This dinosaur's name is Tim, hence the name of the book. He defends the Earth from a swarm of nanobots that can genetically modify anything so that they can turn anything into anything else which includes into more nanobots. There are also two human characters, Chris and Anna. I just thought I should mention them because they are also sort of important. This book was very funny and the ...

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