This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction (10/16/16)

So I'm here in the Wichita Airport, on my way home from Kidlitcon 2016...tired from the intense discussions (we worked hard!), happy to have seen my old friends and met new ones, happy to have seen Wichita, which has the best outdoor sculptures of any city I've ever been.  Thank you everyone who came to Kidlitcon as a speaker or an audience-er (at times a blurry line...)

So here, quickly finishing this off before my flight, is what I found in by blog reading from last week.

The Reviews

Cabinet of Wonders, by Marie Rutkoski, at Jean Little Library

The Creeping Shadow, by Jonathan Stroud, at The Book Nut

The Curse of the Were-Hyena, by Bruce Hale, at Sharon the Librarian

The Eye of Midnight, by Andrew Brumbach, at Semicolon

A Field Guide to Fantastical Beasts, by Olento Salaperäinen, at Fantasy Literature

The Firefly Code, by Megan Frazer Blakemore, at Random Musings of a Bibliophile

Furthermore, by Tahereh Mafi, at divabooknerd

Guys Read: Terrifying Tales, edited by Jon Sciezka, at Geo Librarian

The Hidden Oracle, by Rick Riordan, at A Reader of Fictions

The Magician's Key, by Matthew Cody, at Sharon the Librarian

Of Mice and Magic, by Ursula Vernon, at Log Cabin Library

OMG...I Did It Again?! by Talia Aikens-Nunez, at Cover2Coverblog

Once Was a Time, by Leila Sales, at Confessions of a Bibliovore

The Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee, at Michelle I. Mason

Rebellion of Theives, by Kekla Magoon, at Ms. Yingling Reads

School of the Dead, by Avi, at Semicolon

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, by Megan Shepherd, at The Reading Nook Reviews and Vegan Daemon

The Secrets of Solace, by Jaleigh Johnson, at Semicolon

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, by Jonathan Auxier, at Semicolon

Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs, at The Secret Files of Fairday Morror

Sword in the Stacks, by Jen Swann Downey, at Geo Librarian

There May be a Castle, by Piers Torday, at The Gaurdian

Under Their Skin by Margaret Peterson Haddix, at Leaf's Reviews

Wishing Day, by Lauren Myracle, at Completely Full Bookshelf

Authors and Interviews

Ross Welford (Time Traveling With a Hamster) at My Brain on Books

Karen Foxlee (A Most Magical Girl) at Booktopia

Other Good Stuff

I did not know Disney was doing a live action Nutcracker movie; appealing casting news here at Once Upon a Blog