This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the bogs (12/20/15)

Welcome to this week's round-up; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

Blood Ties (Spirit ANimals #3), by Garth Nix and Sean Williams, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels

The Colossus Rises (Seven Wonders #1), by Peter Lerangis and Torstein Norstrand, at Hidden in Pages

The Dungeoneers, by John David Anderson, at The Book Nut

Fuzzy Mud, by Louis Sacher, at Challenging the Bookworm

Game of Flames, by Robin Wasserman, at Read Till Dawn

The Goblin's Puzzle: Being the Adventures of a Boy with No Name and Two Girls Called Alice, by Andrew S. Chilton, at Sharon the Librarian

Hunted (Spirit Animals #2) by Maggie Stiefvater, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels

The Islands of Chaldea, by Diana Wynne Jones, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia

Mark of the Thief, by Jennifer Nielsen, at alibrarymama

Mars Evacuees, by Sophia McDougall, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels

Milo Speck, Accidental Agent, by Linda Urban, at Charlotte's Library

MiNRS, by Kevin Sylvester, at The Book Nut

The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel, at Redeemed Reader

Nomad, by William Alexander, at The Book Nut

Rules for Stealing Stars, by Corey Ann Haydu, at Waking Brain Cells

The Second Guard, by J.D. Vaughn, at alibraryama

The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow by Jessica Haight & Stephanie Robinson, at Randomly Reading

The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman, at Please Feed the Bookworm

The Three Sisters, by Sonia Halbach, at Kristen Burns

The Toymaker's Apprentice, by Sherri L. Smith, at Charlotte's Library

Treasury of Norse Mythology, by Donna Jo Napoli, at This Kid Reviews Books

Vaiant, by Sarah McGuire, at Fantasy of the Silver Dragon

Wake Up Missing, by Kate Messner, at Dark Faerie Tales

Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye, by Tania Del Rio, and Will Staehle, at Ms. Yingling Reads

World Zomination (#7), by John Kloepfer and David DeGrand, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Magical Mysteries at SLF--. The Adventures of Lettie Peppercorn, by Sam Gayton, The Dastardly Deed, by Holly Grant, The Deadly 7, by Garth Jennings, The Door by the Staircase, by Katherine Marsh, and A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic, by Lisa Papademetriou

Ana of The Book Smuggers reflects on the Ironmonger Trilogy by Edward Carey at Kirkus

A reflection on the Septimus Heap series, by Angie Sage, at Redeemed Reader

 

Authors and Interviews

Jonathan Stroud shares why he loves fan art at The Guardian
 

Other Good Stuff

The first Fantastic Beasts trailer has arrived (more at Tor)

and Not a good Stuff--RIP Peter Dickinson