Welcome to this week's gathering of blog posts of interest to fans of middle grade sci fi/fantasy! Please let me know if I missed your post or the posts of your loved ones.
The Reviews:
13 Gifts, by Wendy Mass, at Not Acting My Age
The Accidental Time Traveller, by Janis Mackay, at Biblio Links
The Adventures of Nanny Piggins, by R.A. Spratt, at Between These Pages
Back to the Titanic, by Beatrice Gormley, at Time Travel Times Two
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls, by Claire Legand, at Melinda VanLone
Curse of the Broomstaff (Janitors Book 3), by Tyler Whitesides, at Indie Book Review
Deadweather and Sunrise (Chronicles of Egg, book 1), by Geoff Rodkey, at Carstairs Considers
The Endless Pavement, by Jacqueline Jackson and William Perlmutter, at Views from the Tesseract
Fallout, by Todd Strasser, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen, at Annette's Book Spot (audiobook review)
The Ghost of Fossil Glen, by Cynthia DeFelice, at The Secret DMS Files of Fairday Morrow
Gustav Gloom and the People Taker, by Adam-Troy Castro, at Akossiwa Ketoglo
How to Catch a Bogle, by Catherine Jinks, at Bookends
The Hypnotists, by Gordon Korman, at Back to Books
The Icarus Project, by Laura Quimby, at Challenging the Bookworm
The King's Ransom (Young Knights of the Round Table), by Cheryl Carpinello, at Tales of a Bookworm and swlothian
Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 8), by Derek Landy, at The Book Zone
Magic Marks the Spot, by Caroline Carlson, at thehopefulheroine, A Reader of Fictions, and Recovering Potter Adict
The Monster in the Mud Ball, by S.P. Gates, at Charlotte's Library and Ms. Yingling Reads
The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail, by Richard Peck, at Semicolon
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate, (not) reviewed by Donalyn Miller at Nerdy Book Club
Other Worlds (Guys Read), edited by Jon Scieszka, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Sonderbooks, and Candace's Book Blog
The Planet Thieves, by Dan Krokos, at Reading Rumpus
A Question of Magic, by E.D. Baker, at Jean Little Library
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile and Teach Mentor Texts
Rooftoppers, by Katherine Rundell, at Waking Brain Cells
Rose, by Holly Webb, at From the Mixed Up Files, The Styling Librarian, To Read Or Not to Read, and Jean Little Library
The Savage Fortress, by Sarwat Chadda, at The Book Monsters
The School for Good and Evil, by Soman Chainani, at The Write Path
Scotland's Guardians, by Katharina Gerlach, at Mother Daughter Book Reviews
The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud, at The Social Potato and Charlotte's Library
The Shadow of Camelot, by Wendy Leighton-Porter, at Mother Daughter Book Reviews
Substitute Creature, by Charles Gilman, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner, at Tales of the Marvelous
Timothy and the Dragon's Gate, by Adrienne Kress, at Once Upon a Bookshelf
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt, at Next Best Book
Wild Born (Spirit Animals Book 1), by Brandon Mull, at Pass the Chiclets
The Year of Shadows, by Claire Legrand, at Reading Nook
Zoe and Zach and the Ghost Leopard, by Lars Guignard, at Geo Librarian (audiobook review)
Authors and Interviews
Cornelia Funke at The Secret DMS Files of Fairday Morrow
Ellen Booraem (Texting the Underworld) at Cynsations
Caroline Carlson (Magic Marks the Spot) at Literary Rambles
Sarwat Chadda (Ash Mistry and the World of Darkness) at The Enchanted Inkpot
Claire Caterer (The Key and the Flame) at Books for YA!
Caroline Carlson (Magic Marks the Spot) at Onefour Kidlit
Thomas Torre at This Isn't Rocket Science (about writing MG sci fi)
S.P. Gates (The Monster in the Mudball) on what does a monster looks like, at The Open Book
Steve Whibley (Glimpse) at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
Other Good Stuff
Head over to the Cybils website tomorrow to see the lists of panelists for this year! As head of the newly independent elementary and middle grade speculative fiction panel, I had the difficult job of selecting panelists...Thank you, all who applied, and I'm sorry I didn't have room for all of you! And remember that book nominations are open from Oct. 1-15; anyone is welcome to nominate early and often!
A nice dragon post by Rachel Neumeier at My World...in words and pages
For those in School Mode--ten fun sci fi/fantasy school stories at Views From the Tesseract
The Stars so far (the books that got stars, not space travel) at Shelftalker
Draw a Quarkbeast contest! (with thanks to book4yourkids for the screen shot)
Ooh! Just saw this one and MUST read: Back to Blackbrick by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald.
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