Here's what I found in my blog reading this past week; please let me know if I missed your post!
The Reviews:
The Book of Doom, by Barry Hutchison, at Buried Under Books
The Crowfield Curse, by Pat Walsh, at Hidden In Pages
Curse of the Ancients (Infinity Ring 4), by Matt De La Pena, at Charlotte's Library
Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at Teach Mentor Texts
Ghost Hawk, by Susan Cooper, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Handbook for Dragon Slayers, by Merrie Haskell, at Charlotte's Library
The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle, by Christopher Healy, at Reading Rumpus Book Reviews
How to Catch a Boggle, by Catherine Jinks, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile and Wandering Librarians
I Was a Seventh Grade Monster Hunter, by A.G. Kent, at Oh, for the HOOK of a BOOK
Jack Templar Monster Hunter, by Jeff Gunhus, at Creating Imaginations
Keeper of Reign, by Emma Right, at Bookworm for Kids
Listening for Lucca, by Suzanne LaFleur, at That Blog Belongs to Emily Brown
Magyk, and Flyte, by Angie Sage, at Here There Be Books
Mirage, by Jenn Reese, at The Write Path
Momo, by Michael Ende, at In Bed With Books
The Mouse With the Question Mark Tail, by Richard Peck, at Hope is the Word
The Neptune Project, by Polly Holyoke, at Presenting Lenore
North of Nowhere, by Liz Kessler, at books4yourkids
The Planet Thieves, by Dan Krokos, at Maria's Melange and Fantasy Literature
Playing With Fire, by Bruce Hale and Brandon Dorman, at The Book Cellar
Rump, by Liesl Shurtliff, at Akossiwa Ketoglo and Welcome to My Tweendom
The School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, at Elfswood, Transcribing These Dreams, and Wrathqueen's Books
The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud, at Sharon the Librarian
Sent (The Missing, Book 2), by Margaret Peterson Haddix, at Time Travel Times Two
Song of the Quarkbeast, by Jasper Fforde, at Teen Librarian Toolbox
The Time Fetch, by Amy Herrick, at My Precious and The Hiding Spot
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, at The Book Monsters
What Came From the Stars, by Gary D. Schmidt, at Not Acting My Age
When the Butterflies Came, by Kimberley Griffiths Little, at Charlotte's Library
The Wishing Spell, by Chris Colfer, at As Life Like As
A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula Le Guin, at alibrarymama
Year of Shadows, by Claire Legrand, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile, The Book Smugglers, Cuddlebuggery, and Jen Robinson's Book Page
A peak at three violent books at Ms. Yingling Reads--Goeglein, T.M. Flicker & Burn, Higson, Charlie. The Sacrifice. (#4), and Sanderson, Brandon. Steelheart (Reckoners#1)
Authors and Interviews
Ellen Booraem (Texting the Underworld) at Manga Maniac Café
Claire Legrand (The Year of Shadows) at the Wordpress Blog , Electrician Richardson, and A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust
Kathi Appelt (The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp) at The Brain Lair
Claudia White (Aesop's Secret) at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
Anne Ursu (The Real Boy) featured in the "So You Want to Read Middle Grade" series at GreenBeanTeenQueen
Marianne Malone (The Pirate's Coin) at Nerdy Book Club
Other Good Stuff
"Witches in Children's Literature" at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
At Views from the Tesseract, there's a look at sci fi/fantasy anthologies for young readers past and present
For a more scholarly look at mg sff than one usually finds online, here's "Trapped by Transformation: The Place for Female Identity in the Stoneheart Trilogy," by Alya Hameed at The Unjournal of Children's Literature.
I don't think I would have wanted Zombie Princess Dolls when I was young, nor do I want them now, but maybe someone will? (more info. here)
Thanks for featuring my review!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the feature ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for including my article on Stoneheart in your round-up. was a pleasant surprise to see it getting wide readership.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! I'm glad to know people clicked through!
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