This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi/fantasy from around the blogs (10/23/16)

Here's what I found in my blog reading this week of interest to us fans of mg sci fi/fantasy; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians, at Got My Book (audiobook review)

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, at Got My Book (audiobook review)

The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood and Co. book 4), by Jonathan Stroud, at Hidden In Pages.

The Curse of the Boggin by D.J. MacHale, at Nerdophiles and Cover2CoverBlog (with giveaways)

The Evil Wizard Smallbone, by Delia Sherman, at Sharon the Librarian

The Fog of Forgetting, by G.A. Morgan, at Nerdy Book Club

Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger, at Semicolon

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, at Ex Libris

The Girl Who Could Not Dream, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Log Cabin Library

In Due Time series review (books 1-3), by Nicholas O. Time, at Charlotte's Library

Insert Coin to Continue, by John David Anderson, at The Book Nut

Insignia,  by J.S. Kincaid, at Book Dreaming

Island of Legends, by Lisa McMann, at Back to Books

Journey's End, by Rachel Hawkins, at Great Imaginations

Juniper Berry, by M.P. Kozlowsky, at A Backwards Story

The Key to Extraordinary, by Natalie Lloyd, at The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow

The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel, by Natasha Lowe, at Sharon the Librarian

Monsterville, by Sarah S. Reida, at Say What?

My Diary from the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson, at Semicolon

The Rat Prince, by Bridget Hodder, at Charlotte's Library

Rebel Genius, by Michael Dante DiMartino, at Me On Books

Rise of the Ragged Clover (Luck Uglies book 3), by Paul Durham, at Semicolon

The Scourge, by Jennifer Nielsen, at The Book Smugglers

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, by Megan Shepherd, at Fantasy Literature and For the Love of All Things Wordy

Starchaser, by Angie Sage, at Ms. Yingling Reads

When the Sea Turned to Silver, by Grace Lin, at Randomly Reading

The Wishing World, by Todd Fahnestock, at Geo Librarian

The Wooden Prince, by John Claude Bemis, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile

two at Semicolon--Fortune Falls, by Jenny Goebel, and Sticks and Stones, by Abby Cooper

Authors and Intereviews

Sarah S. Reida (Monsterville: A Lissa Black Production) at The Children's Book Review

Tania Unsworth (Brightwood) at Nerdy Book Club

Steve Griffin (The Secret of the Tirthas series) at Carpinello's Writing Pages

Joshua Khan (Shadow Magic) at Middle Grade Strikes Back and Nayu's Reading Corner

Cynthia Reeg (From the Grave) at Always in the Middle

Other Good Stuff

A top twenty list of spooky middle grade at A Backwards Story

Rachel Neumeier recaps Jen Swann Downey's talk at Kidlitcon

One week till Witch Week at Emerald City Book Review

These people won garage decorating (via io9)