This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (5/21/17)

Welcome to this week's round-up!  Please let me know if I missed your post.

The Reviews

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book, by Jennifer Donnelly, at Geek Girl Project

The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker, by Matilda Woods, at Minerva Reads

Brightwood, by Tania Unsworth  at Geo Librarian

Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer, at The Children's War

The Crystal Ribbon, by Celeste Lim, at Pages Unbound Reviews

The Door in the Alley (Exploreres, book 1), by Adrienne Kress, at The Book Wars

The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart, by Stephanie Burgis, at the B. and N. Kids Blog

A Dragon's Guide to Making Perfect Wishes, by Laurence Yep and Joanne Ryder, at Charlotte's Library

Dream Magic, by Joshua Kahn, at Charlotte's Library

Greenglass House, by Kate Milford, at The Bookshelf Gargoyle

Henry and the Chalk Dragon, by Jennifer Trafton, at Hope is the Word

The Journey to Dragon Island, by Claire Fayers, at the B. and N. Kids Blog

The Left-Handed Fate, by Kate Milford, at Leaf's  Reviews

The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre, by Gail Carson Levine, at Pages Unbound Reviews

Orphan Island, by Laurel Snyder, at Maria's Melange and The Book Monsters (giveaways)

The Poet's Dog, by Patricia MacLachlan, at Cover2Cover

Searching for Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, at Say What?

The Shadow Cipher (York book 1), by Laura Ruby, at The Book Smugglers

Simon Thorn and the Wolf;s Den, by Aimee Carter, at Say What?

Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard, by Jonathan Auxier, at Say What?

Ms. Yingling Reads has two superheros--Bug Girl, by Benjamin Harper, Sarah Hines-Stephens, Sarah, and Anoosha Syed, and How to be a Supervillain, by Michael Fry, along with some superhero company for them

Two very cool Star Wars books at Boys Rule, Boys Read

Authors and Interviews

Stephanie Burgis (The Dragon with the Chocolate Heart), at Just another teen reading books

Susan Maupin Schmid (Ghost of a Chance) at Just another teen reading books

Anna Staniszewski  (Once Upon a Cruise) shares five funny mg books at Just anther teen reading books

Adrienne Kress (The Exploreres: the Door in the Alley) at Project Mayhem and Middle Grade Mafioso


Other Good Stuff

The Dark Crystal is coming to Netflix as a new series. More at Once Upon a Blog

Because it is pleasant to look at other people's bookshelves--some pictures of book storage in tiny houses (but gee they don't actually have many books....)