Welcome to the first middle grade science fiction and fantasy round-up of September! Here are all the posts I found this week; please let me know if I missed yours.
The Reviews
Bridge of Time, by Lewis Buzbee, at Charlotte's Library
Cosmic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, at The Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia
Darkbeast, by Morgan Keyes, at Not Acting My Age
The Demon Notebook, by Erica McGann, at Nayu's Reading Corner
The Dragonet Prophecy (Wings of Fire, 1), by Tui T. Sutherland, at Fantasy Literature
Eye of the Storm, by Kate Messner, at Presenting Lenore
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Cracking the Cover
The Ghost of Graylock, by Dan Poblocki, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Ghost of Opalina, by Peggy Bacon, at Charlotte's Library
Gods and Warriors, by Michelle Paver, at Bookyurt
Gustav Gloom and the People Taker, by Adam-Troy Castro, at Carina's Books
The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom, by Christopher Healy, at Stacked
The Kindling, by Brayden Bell, at My Precious
The Month of Zephram Mondays, by Leslie A. Susskind, at Nayu's Reading Corner
Mutiny in Time, by James Dashner, at Cracking the Cover
The Prarie Thief, by Melissa Wiley, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
The Prince Who Fell from the Sky, by John Claude Bemis, at Carina's Books
The Princess Curse, by Merrie Haskell, at Tales of the Marvelous
Renegade Magic, by Stephanie Burgis, at The Book Smugglers
The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, by Jennifer Tracton, at books4yourkids
Splendors and Glooms, by Laura Amy Schiltz, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Starry River of the Sky, by Grace Lin, at Stacked and Abby the Librarian
What Came from the Stars, by Gary Schmidt, at Jen Robinson's Book Page
The Wishing Spell, by Chris Colfer, at Read in a Single Sitting
Writers and Interviews:
Jennifer Nielsen (The False Prince) at Emily's Reading Room
James Dashner (Mutiny in Time) at Cracking the Cover
Morgan Keyes (Darkbeast) at Jill Archer and An Exchange of Words
Other Good Stuff:
BBC Three will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publications of Grimm's Fairy Tales with interviews and readings from "poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Michael Morpurgo, the author of War Horse, John Agard, the poet and playwright, Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, and the writer of comic fantasy stories, Sir Terry Pratchett." For more info, here's the Guardian article. [Which is correct--Grimm's Tales, as the Guardian has it, or Grimms' Tales, since there were two brothers????]
Not related to mg sff at all, but these reviews are Utterly Funny (thanks to This is Not the Six World Novel)
Of Bloggish interest:
The schedule for Kitlitcon 2012 is up! And it looks great. This is the most fun conference ever (if, of course, you are a children's book blogger. If you are a dairy farm, perhaps, not so much).
Sign ups are now ongoing for the A More Diverse Universe blog tour, which will happen Sept 23rd to Sept. 29th. "To participate, you need only read and review one book in the speculative fiction genre that was written by a person of color."
Book Blogger Appreciation Week is coming Sept. 10-14 (with no awards this year, which I think is for the best).
This week's round-up brought to you by the Poodle Moth, coming soon to a backyard near you:
Thanks for sharing your roundup! I look forward to it each week. I'll see you in a few weeks - what fun KidLitCon will be!
ReplyDeleteOoooooooh, thank you for the heads up on the Diverse Universe tour. I went and signed up immediately, but I'm dying to review THORN by Intisar Khanani well before the end of the month!! Oh, the agony.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the mention, Charlotte, and for the great links, as usual!
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