Welcome to another round-up of reviews and other posts of interest to us fans of MG SFF! Please let me know if I missed your post.
The Reviews:
13 Curses, by Michelle Harrison, at Reader Noir
Archie Green and the Magician's Secret, by D.D. Everest, at Wondrous Reads
The Book of Three, by Lloyd Alexander, at Manga Maniac Café and Bunbury in the Stacks (with giveaways)
Charmed Life, by Diana Wynne Jones, at The Emerald City Book Review
Dreamwood, by Heather Mackey, at Semicolon
Exile (Keeper of the Lost Cities 2), by Shannon Messenger, at Annie McMahon
The Fires of Calderon, by Lindsay Cummings, at Librarian of Snark
The Fourteenth Goldfish, by Jennifer L. Holm, at 100 Scope Notes
Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle, by George Hagen, at Jen Robinson's Book Page and Kid Lit Geek
The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove, at Redeemed Reader and Pages Unbound
Greenglass House, by Kate Milford, at Story Time Secrets and Semicolon
Hook's Revenge, by Heidi Schulz, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Log Cabin Library, and Justin's Book Blog
The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham, at Jean Little Library
Lycanthor the Werewolf, by Aiden Storm, at The Ninja Librarians
Magic Thief: Found, by Sarah Prineas, at Hidden In Pages (audiobook review)
The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson, at The Wanderer
The Princess and the Goblin, by George MacDonald, at Stray Thoughts
Rose, by Holly Webb, at Librarian of Snark
The Screaming Staircase, by Jonathan Stroud, at Justin's Book Blog
The Shadow Lantern, by Teresa Flavin, at Charlotte's Library
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at That's Another Story
Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs, at Ms. Yingling Reads
Still Life (The Books of Elsewhere 5), by Jacqueline West, at Log Cabin Library
Thursdays with the Crown, by Jessica Day George, at Good Books and Good Wine
Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life, by P.J. Hoover, at Charlotte's Library
The Water Castle, by Megan Frazer Blakemore, at Pages Unbound
The Whispering Skull, by Jonathan Stroud, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Bibliobrit, and Reader Noir
Three from Kate Milford (The Boneshaker, The Kairos Mechanism, and The Broken Lands, which is YA) at alibrarymama
Authors and Interviews
Michelle Paver (most recently The Eye of the Falcon) talks about her inspiration at The Guardian
William Alexander (The Ambassador) shares his Big Idea at Whatever
Heidi Schulz (Hook's Revenge) along with its illustrator and editor, at Supernatural Snark
Other Good Stuff:
Princess Academy and Palace of Stone are getting new paperback covers to coincide with the release of the third book in the series (The Forgotton Sisters) this coming March. See them at Squeetus. (me--I with they had made them a bit more boy friendly....oh well.)
A Diverse Mythical Creatures Round Table at the Book Smugglers-- Part 1 and Part 2
A nice YA Steampunk Genre Guide at The Hub-- I wonder if there are enough MG titles to do one for that group?
A Tuesday Ten of Challenged and Banned Sci Fi/Fantasy books for kids at Views From the Tesseract
And finally, don't forget that nominations for the Cybils open October 1st! What Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction books will you all nominate????
V. excited about Forgotten Sisters, but I agree about the covers. My favorite is the first Princess Academy cover, so snowy.
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