The week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (20 July, 2014)

Here's this week's round-up; as usual, please let me know if I missed your post!  Thanks.


The Reviews

11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass, at Books Beside My Bed

The Boundless, by Kenneth Oppel, at Bookends  and Mister K Reads

The Burning Shadow, by Michelle Paver, at The Book Monsters

The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man, by Lloyd Alexander, at Fantasy Literature

The City of Ember, by Jeanne DuPrau, at That's Another Story 

The Extraordinary Book of Doors, by Anne E.G. Nydam, at Charlotte's Library

Fire and Ice (Spirit Animals Book 4), by Shannon Hale, at proseandkahn

The Four Seasons of Lucy McKenzie, by Kirsty Murray, at Charlotte's Library

The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer L. Holm, at Mom Read It

Hell Hound Curse (Sammy Feral's Diaries of Weird), by Eleanor Hawkin, at Nayu's Reading Corner

House of Dark Shadows, by Robert Liparulo, at Time Travel Times Two

Minion, by John David Anderson, at This Kid Reviews Books and Charlotte's Library

My  Zombie Hamster, by Havelock McCreely,  at Wondrous Reads

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Great Imaginations, Reader Noir, and Lunar Rainbows

Of Sorcery and Snow (Ever Afters #3) by Shelby Bach, at Log Cabin Library 

Oliver and the Seawigs, by Philip Reeve, at Mom Read It and Carstairs Considers

Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee, at Evelyn Ink

Palace of Stone, by Shannon Hale, at By Singing Light

Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, by Richard Roberts, at alibrarymama

The Savage Fortress, by Sarwat Chadda, at books4yourkids

Silent Starsong, by T.J. Wooldridge, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia 

Timesmith, by Neil Bushnell, at Mr Ripley's Enchanted Books

The Tomb of Shadows (Seven Wonders book 3), by Peter Lerangis, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A World Without Princes, by Soman Chainani, at The B.O.B and  Good Books and Good Wine (audiobook review)

The Vengekeep Prophecies, by Brian Farrey, at Here There Be Books


Authors and Interviews

G. A. Morgan (The Fog of Forgetting) at On Starships and Dragonwings 


More Good Stuff...

...and lots of it, at Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature where stories that didn't make it into the book of the same title are shared.  Go there now, if you haven't yet, because the number of great stories keeps growing, and you could find yourself spending hours of catch up time there.....

A lovey list of scary stories from Kell Andrews (Deadwood) at Project Mayhem  and more scariness and danger from School Library Journal

And finally, registration is now open for Kidlitcon 2014!