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This week's round-up of middle grade science fiction and fantasy from around the blogs (10/13/19)

Here's what I found in my blog reading this week; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

The Bootlace Magician (Cicus Mirandus #2), by Cassie Beasley, at Randomly Reading

The Boy Who Was Fire, by Marcus Kahle McCann, at The Children's Book Review

City of Bones, by Victoria Schwab, at Pages Unbound

The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Howitz, at Sally's Bookshelf

Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Charlotte's Library

Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, at Imaginary Friends

The Dragon Warrior, by Katie Zhao, at Log Cabin Library, Forever and Everly, and Lost In Storyland

Ember: the Secret Book, by Jamie Smart, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Charlotte's Library

Homerooms and Hall Passes, by Tom O'Donnell, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The International Yeti Collective, by Paul Mason, at Book Craic

The Little Broomstick, by Mary Stewart, at Fantasy Literature

Mightier than the Sword, by Drew Callander and Alana Harrison, at Feed Your Fiction Addiction

Race to the Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse, at Imaginary Friends

The Red Fox Clan (Royal Ranger #2), by John Flanagan, at Say What?

Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker, at Books4YourKids

The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud, a review revisited at Twirling Book Princess

Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden, at Geo Librarian

The Tyrant's Tomb, by Rick Riordan, at Say What?

The Wayward Witch and the Feelings Monster (Polly and Buster #1), by Sally Ripen, at Always in the Middle

Two at alibrarymama--Freedom Fire. Dactyl Hill Squad 2, by Daniel José Older, and Spark, by Sarah Beth Durst

Two at Falling Letters-- Sweep, by Jonathan Auxier, and The Stone Girl's Story, by Sarah Beth Durst

Two at The Book Search--We're Not From Here, by Geoff Rodkey, and Twinchantement, by Elise Allen

Authors and Interviews

Nick Tomlinson (The Ghouls of Howlfair) at A Little But a Lot

Daniel Kraus (The Teddies Saga) at Fuse#8

Paul Mason (The International Yeti Collective), at Thereaderteacher.com (also with review)

Liesl Shurtliff (The Obsidian Compass: Time Castaways series #2), at A Year of Reading.

Other Good Stuff

"Imagining Other Worlds in Diana Wynne Jones' Witch Week" at Tor

"25 Scary (and not-so-scary) books to get you in the Halloween spirit" at Pop Goes the Reader

And if you haven't nominated a book for the Cybils Awards in Elementary/middle grade speculative fiction, here is a list I made of books that haven't been nominated yet!

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