This week's roundup of middle grade fantasy and science fiction (11/8/15)

Here's what I found this week; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

The Afterlife Academy, by Frank L. Cole at Ms. Yingling Reads

Alistair Grimm's Odditorium, by Gregory Funaro, at Falling Letters

The Astounding Broccoli Boy, by Frank Cottrell Boyce, at Bibliobrit and Randomly Reading

Connect the Stars, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague, at This Kid Reviews Books

The Copper Gauntlet, by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, at Log Cabin Library and Teen Librarian Tool Box

Crenshaw, by Katherine Applegate, at Kid Lit Geek

Darkwing, by Kenneth Oppel, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels

A Dragon's Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, at alibrarymama

Emily Windsnap and the Ship of Lost Souls, by Liz Kessler, at Read till Dawn

A Face Like  Glass, by Frances Hardinge, at Rachel Neumeier

Fires of Invention by J. Scott Savage, at Read Till Dawn

Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sachar, at Semicolon

The Girl Who Could Not Dream, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Waking Brain Cells, Book Nut, Fiktshun, and Fantasy Liturature

Giving Up the Ghost, by Sheri Sinykin, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Hamster Princess: Harriet the Invincible, by Ursula Vernon, at alibrarymama

Horns and Wrinkles, by Joseph Helgerson and Nicoletta Ceccoli, at Hidden in Pages

Island of Graves (The Unwanteds, Book 6), by Lisa McMann, at Hidden in Pages

The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste, at Geo Librarian

The Kat Sinclair Files-Dead Air, by Michelle Schusterman, at Charlotte's Library

Keeper of the Lost City, by Sharon Messenger (series review), at Carstairs Considers

MiNRS, by Kevin Sylvester, at Charlotte's Library

My Diary From the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson, at A Glass of Wine

The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root, by Christopher Pennell, at Becky's Book Reviews

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier, at Operation Actually Read Bible

Shadows of Sherwood, by Kekla Magoon, at The Book Nut and

The Shrunken Head, by Lauren Oliver, at Diva Book Nerd

The Thickety, by J.A. White, at The Book Wars

Took, by Mary Downing Hahn, at Mom Read It

The Tuttle Twins and the Creature From Jekyll Island, by Connor Boyack, at The Write Path

Valiant, by Sarah McGuire, at Kid Lit Geek

Woundabout, by Lev Rosen, at Charlotte's Library

The Wrinkled Crown, by Anne Nesbit, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile

Two at Dead Houseplants--Clover's Luck, by Callie George, and The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel

A trio of dragon books at The Hub


Authors and Interviews

Sarah Beth Durst (The Girl Who Could Not Dream) at The Book Smugglers and Waking Brian Cells

Dorothy A. Winsor (Finders Keepers) at Project Mayhem


Other Good Stuff

Read an unpublished chapter from Joan Aiken's classic The Kingdom and the Cave at The Guardian

A Tuesday Ten of 2015's Funny Fantstic, at Views from the Tesseract