This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (3/20/16)

Here's this week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

Charmed by Jen Calonita, at The Write Path and The Reading Nook Reviews

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic, by Malia Ann Haberman, at Always in the Middle

The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle, by Janet Fox, at The Book Wars, Word Spelunking, Fantasy Literature, and Waking Brain Cells

Dealing with Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, at Leaf's Reviews

A Dragon's Guide to Making Your Human Smarter, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, at Word Spelunking

The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker by E.D. Baker at Read Till Dawn

Flunked, by Jen Calonita, at Cover2Cover

The Fog Diver, by Joel Ross, at Finding Wonderland and Challenging the Bookworm

Fortune Falls by Jenny Goebel, at Read Till Dawn

Hour of the Bees, by Linday Eager, at Ms. Yingling Reads and Scobberlotch

The Morrigan's Curse, by Dianne K. Salerni, at Middle Grade Mafioso

One Wish, by Michelle Harrison, at Great Imaginations

Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff, at Hidden in Pages and The Book Cellar

Rise of the Ragged Clover (Luck Uglies #3), by Paul Durham, at Kid Lit Reviews

Tuck Everlasting, by Natilie Babbitt, at Becky's Book Reviews

The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, at The Book Nut

The Wild Swans, by Jackie Morris, at Leaf's Reviews

Four short ones at Random Musings of a Bibliophile--Bayou Magic, Fridays with the Wizards, The Hollow Boy, and The Jumbies

Authors and Interviews

Anna Staniszewski (Finders Reapers) at Teen Librarian Toolbox

Janet Fox (The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle) at Great Imaginations, Cynsations, My Brain on Books, and The Book Wars

Other Good Stuff

From The Guardian: My Brother is a Superhero, by David Solomons, "a debut novel about a comics-obsessed 11-year-old who is annoyed when his older brother is given powers by an alien to help save two universes has won the £5,000 Waterstones prize."

The Carnegie and Kate Greenaway shortlists have been announced, with a smattering of fantasy included

The movie of The Little Prince has been picked up by Netflix, via Tor

And from the department of truly odd creatures--a fossil monster has at last been identified (it's the "dorsal eye ridge" that really makes this one stand out, I think).