This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (1/29/17)

Here's what I found in my blog reading this week; please let me know if I missed your post!


The Reviews

100 Dresses, by Susan Maupin Schmid, at Pages Unbound

The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes, by Wade Albert White, at On Starships and Dragonwings

Alfie Bloom and the Secrets of Hexbridge Castle, by Gabrielle Kent, at On Starships and Dragonwings

Batgirl at Super Hero High (DC Super Hero Girls #3, by Lisa Yee, at Word Spelunking

The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1), by Jennifer Bell, at Mom Read It

The Crystal Ribbon, by Celeste Lim, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge, at Fantasy Literature

Finders Keepers (Rebels of the Lamp #2), by Michael M.B. Galvin and Peter Speakman, at Winterhaven Books

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, at A Backwards Story

A Hat Full of Sky, by Terry Pratchett, at The Book Nut

How I Became a Ghost, by Tim Tingle, at My Brain On Books

Island of Dragons, by Lisa McMann, at Say What?

The Mad Scientists of New Jersey, by Chris Sorensen, at Time Travel Times Two

The Magician’s Tower by Shawn Thomas Odyssey, at Leaf's Reviews

The Memory Thief, by Bryce Moore, at Say What?

Melody Bittersweet and the Girls Ghoustbusting Agency, by Kitty French, at Sharon the Librarian

Talons of Power, by Tui T. Sutherland, at Charlotte's Library

Theadosia and the Serpents of Chaos, by R.L. LaFevers, at The Literary Phoenix

Time Traveling with a Hamster, by Ross Welford, at Redeemed Reader

The Wizard's Dog by Eric Kahn Gale, at Proseandkahn


Other Good Stuff'

Here's the text of a talk Katherine Langrish gave recently on Folklore and Memory.

A review of the movie version of Wait Till Helen Comes at The O.W.L.

A crab species has been named after Harry Potter and Professor Snape (via Tor)