Welcome to this week's round up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs! Please let me know if I missed your post.
The Reviews
The 13-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths, illustrated byTerry Denton, at Sharon the Librarian
The Adventures of Lettie Peppercorn, by Sam Gayton, at A Throne of Books
The Alchemist's Theorem, by Margaret R. Chiavetta, at Leaf's Reviews
Alistair Grim’s Odd Aquaticum, by Gregory Funaro, at Fantasy Literature
Behind the Canvas, by Alexander Vance, at Sharon the Librarian
Beyond the Door (Time Out of Time, 1) by Maureen Doyle McQuerry, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
The Buccaneer's Code, by Caroline Carlson, at This Kid Reviews Books
Cart and Cwidder, by Diana Wynne Jones, at The Book Smugglers
A Dragon’s Guide to the Care and Feeding of Humans, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, at Word Spelunking
The Dragon's Return (Zodiac Legacy Book 2), by Stan Lee at Barnes & Noble Kids Blog
Escaping Peril, by Tui T.Sutherland, at Hidden In Pages
The False Prince, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
Games Wizards Play, by Diane Duane, at BooksForKidsBlog and Barnes & Noble Kid's Blog
The Golden Vendetta, by Tony Abbott, at Boys Rule Boys Read!
The Hero and the Crown, by Robin McKinley, at Tor
The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, by Christopher Healy, at The Book Wars
The Icebound Land, by John Flannagan, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
The Lie Tree, by Frances Hardinge, at School Library Journal
The Night Parade, by Kathryn Tanquary, at The Book Wars and Book Swoon
Quest Maker (The Last Dragon Charmer #2) by Laurie McKay, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Runaway King, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
Secrets of the Dragon Tomb, by Patrick Samphire, at Charlotte's Library
The Shadow Thone, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
Shipwreck Island, by S.A. Bodeen, at Buxton's Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels
Simon Thorn and the Wolf’s Den, by Aimee Carter, at On Starships and Dragonwings, The Reader Bee, and Barnes & Noble Kids Blog
Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs, at The Book Smugglers
Stopping for a Spell: Three Magical Fantasies by Diana Wynne Jones, at Back to Books
Time Travelling with a Hamster, by Ross Welford, at The Book Smugglers
The Tune Is in the Tree, by Maud Hart Lovelace, at Semicolon
The Voyage of Lucy P. Simmons, by Barbara Mariconda, at Leaf's Reviews
Three at alibrarymama--Moon Rising, by Tui T. Sutherland, Valiant, by Sarah McGuire, and The Toymaker's Apprentice, by Sherri L. Smith
Authors and Interviews
Aimée Carter
(Simon Thorn and the Wolf's Den) at Nerdy Book Club and The Book Cellar
Danika Dinsmore (Narine of Noe), at Dead Houseplants
Jim C. Hines (currently at work on his first MG) on representation at Paranormal
Other Good Stuff
The characters of Harry Potter have been anime-afied, via Tor
And you've probably already seen J.K. Rowling's new information about her wizarding world
A Wrinkle in Time mapped, at Tor
A Tuesday Ten on Mars, at Views from the Tesseract
There's a kickstarter going to help fund The Worlds of Ursula Le Guin documentary
(I've been blogging for nine years now, and have done this round up over 300 times, which is a lot of work (what with searching through well over a thousand blog posts every week to find the links). So I went ahead and added the "buy me coffee" button over on the right, though I have conflicting feelings about it....)
So cool on the Kickstarter! Looking forward to checking out the reviews you've linked to. But first...finishing up CHARMED. Am in fairytale heaven I must say.
ReplyDeleteThe Lie Tree is wonderful, but is historical fiction, can't recall any fantasy. Is it being marketed that way?
ReplyDeleteOh! Thanks. I haven't read it, and haven't been reading reviews real closely (because of wanting to read it fresh-ish) and just defaulted to Hardginge = fantasy...
DeleteI think you deserve at least a cup of coffee, and I'll see what I can do about it when I have a little more time. In the meantime, thanks for linking to my review of The Tune Is in the Tree. I also wrote a review last week of The Nargun and the Stars by Patricia Wrightson, also a fantasy story from the well-known Australian author. If you've not read it, I think you might like it, Charlotte.
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Thanks! I will put Nargun in next Sunday.
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