This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (7/24/16)

The letter C (my favorite letter, naturally) did rather well in this week's round-up, although perennial frontrunner S still won.  Please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

Calling on Dragons, by Patricia Wrede, at Lunar Rainbows

A Clatter of Jars, by Lisa Graff, at My Brain On Books

Cogheart, by Peter Bunzl, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

The Copper Gauntlet, by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare, at Got My Book (audiobook review_

The Copper Gauntlet by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare

The Curse of the Were-Hyena, by Bruce Hale, at Prose and Kahn

The Drake Equation, by Bart King, at Always in the Middle

Dr. Fell and the Playground of Doom, by David Neilsen, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile

Fire Bringer, by David Clement-Davies, at Leaf's Reviews

Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dillinger, at Sharon the Librarian

The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home, by Cahterynne M. Valente, at Falling Letters

Goblin Secrets, by William Alexander, at Nerdy Book Club

Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field, at Kidlitgeek

The Might Odds, by Amy Ignatow, at Fuse #8

The Ministry of Ghosts, by Alex Shearer, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales, at The Book Wars

The Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee, by Erin Petti, at Middle Grade Mafioso

Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes, by Jonathan Auxier, at Semicolon

The Rumpelstiltskin Problem, by Vivian Vande Velde, at Leaf's Reviews

Serafina and the Black Cloak, by Robert Beatty, at BooksForKidsBlog

The Seventh Wish, by Kate Messner, at Michelle I. Mason

Shadows of the Dark Crystal (#1), by J. M. Lee, at Mom Read It

The Shattered Lens (Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians #4) by Brandon Sanderson, at Geo Librarian

Space Hostages, by Sophia McDougall, at Bibliobrit

Summons (Fable Rangers #1) by A.L. Brown, at Sharon the Librarian

The Thief's Apprentice, by Bryan Methods, at This Kid Reviews Books

Authors and Interviews

Sarah Beth Durst (The Girl Who Could Not Dream) at Finding Wonderland

N. Cauldron (Anya and the Secrets of Cupola) at Carpinello's Writing Pages

Other Good Stuff

Ursula Le Guin announces "the Big Book of Earthsea," illustrated by Charles Vass, at Book View Café, and talks about how they are working together to make her dragons just right.

NASA sends Groot and Rocket into space, on a mission patch! Via io9

Via 100 Scope Notes, here's a Moomin documentary

Covering the Dark Is Rising at The Booklist Reader

A Toothless couch for all the How to Train Your Dragon fans, via Tor

The latest trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them can be seen at Tor

And finally, I am the program organizer for Kidlitcon 2016, and I need programs to organize!  Here's a post I wrote with information and ideas.