This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy, and yes science fiction too!

Welcome to the 168th round-up of what I found in my blog reading/hunting this week of interest to readers of middle grade fantasy and science fiction.  I hunted harder than usual, because early on I had book title for some of the harder letters (Q, I'm looking at you) and I thought that maybe this would be the week where I had a full alphabet of mg sff goodness! (I even got a trial subscription to Booklist to find more titles to search for).  Alas, it was not to be.

And it was a little depressing to find so few reviews of mg sff books after so much looking.  Conclusion:  mg sff doesn't get reviewed all that much.  Or else bloggers are really good at disguising their mg sff book reviews as something else.

In any event, let me know if I missed your post!

(And perhaps think about reviewing books that begin with difficult letters of the alphabet next week--it would make me so happy to have a complete set all in one week.)

The Reviews

Bliss, by Kathryn Littlewood, at Barbara Ann Watson

The Cats of Tanglewood Forest, by Charles de Lint, at Bibliophilic Monologues

The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders, Book 1) by Peter Lerangis, at Mr. Ripley's Enchanted Books and I Have Lived a Thousand Lives

Cosmic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, at Mister K Reads

Dark Days, by Derek Landy, at Original Content

Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at Fuse #8

Dragon Run, by Patrick Matthews, at Whatchamacallit Reviews and Charlotte's Library

The Fellowship For Alien Detection, by Kevin Emerson, at Ms. Yingling Reads
and A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust

Geeks, Girls, and Secret Identities, by Mike Jung, at alibrarymama

Icefall, by Matthew Kirby, at Middle Grade Mafioso

Jump Boys: SOS, by Alex Banks, at Heather McCorkle

My Very UnFairy Tale Life, by Anna Staniszewski, at Akossiwa Ketoglo 

The Princess Curse, by Merrie Haskell, at The Book Smugglers

The Queen at War, by K.A.S. Quinn,  at Nayu's Reading Corner

The Runaway King, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Nerdy Book Club, Justin's Book Blog, Random Musings of a Bibliophile, Book Sake, Bookishness, and The Book Smugglers

The School For Good and Evil, by Soman Chianani, at Books and Writers JNR

A Tale of Two Castles, by Gail Carson Levine, at 300 Pages

A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff, at Candace's Book Blog, Bookends, Becky's Book Reviews, and For Those About to Mock, and as an audio book at Good Books and Good Wine

Tuesdays at the Castle, by Jessica Day George, at alibrarymama 

Whatever After: Fairest of All, by Sarah Mlynowski, at Kid Lit Geek

You Only Die Twice (The Genius Files), by Dan Gutman, at The Write Path

Zombie Kid (Case File 13), by J. Scott Savage, at Geo Librarian


Authors and Interviews

Kevin Emerson (The Fellowship For Alien Detection) at From the Mixed Up Files

K.A.S. Quinn (The Queen at War)  at Nayu's Reading Corner

Ally Malineko (Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb) at A Thousand Wrongs  (giveaway)

Greg Fishbone (Galaxy Games) at Authors for Earth Day

Anna Staniszewski (My Epic Fairy Tale Fail) at Ghenet Myrthil

Patrick Matthews (Dragon Run) at Left-handed Spoons


Other Good Stuff

Tunnels, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, is to become a movie 

The second annual DWJ March has begun at We Be Reading

And, finally, these cool socks! Which I like mostly because of the name.  Like sporks, but better.