This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi from around the blogs (12/18/16)

As always, please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

Beautiful Blue World, by Suzanne LaFleur, at Jen Robinson's Book Page

The Cabinet of Wonders, by Marie Rutkoski, at Say What?

Crown of Fire, by Tony Abbott, at Boys Rule, Boys Read

The Dark Talent, by Brandon Sanderson, at Fantasy Literature

The First Last Day, by Dorian Cirrone, at Time Travel Times Two

Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate Saunders, at Ms.Yingling Reads

Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger, at Redeemed Reader

The Girl Who Saved Christmas, by Matt Haig, at So Little Time For Books

Me and Marvin Gardens, by Amy Sarig King, at School Library Journal

The Secret of Goldenrod, by Jane O'Reilly, at Charlotte's Library

The Secret Keepers, by Trenton Lee Stewart, at Hope Is the Word

Serafina and the Black Cloak, by Robert Beatty, at Leaf's Reviews

The Shattered Lens, by Brandon Sanderson, at Fantasy Literature

Snow Fright, by Amie and Bethanie Borst, at This Kid Reviews Books

Under My Hat: Tales From the Cauldron, edited by Jonathan Strahan, at Hidden In Pages

Whatever After: Fairest of All, by Sarah Mlynowski, at Renell Aysling's Book Blog

Word of Mouse, by James Patterson, at the B. and N. Kids Blog

Young Scrouge, by R.L. Stine, at Pop Goes the Reader and Charlotte's Library

Authors and Interviews

Monica Tesler (The Bounders series) on meeting Meg Murry, at Nerdy Book Club

Other Good Stuff

Alums from Studio Ghibli are making a movie (Mary and the Witch's Flower) from one of my most favorite children's fantasy books, The Little Broomstick! via Tor

At the Barnes and Noble Kids Blog, I picked ten favorite MG books of the year, which includes five great spec fic titles.

Zetta Elliott has made a list of MG and YA titles of 2016 by African American writers

and finally, Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer, rendered in Anglo-Saxon at All Things Linguistic