This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi from around the blogs (1/19/20)

Here's what I found this week; please let me know of anything I missed!

The Reviews

Alien Superstar, by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, at Good Reads with Rona

Boy Band of the Apocalypse, by Tom Nicholl, at Always in the Middle

Cog, by Greg van Eekhout, at Sonderbooks

The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Horwitz, at Geo Librarian

A Dash of Trouble (Sprinkle of Spirits #1), by Anna Meriano, at Leaf's Reviews

The Girl who Stole and Elephant, by Nizrana Farook, at Lily and the Fae (I haven't read this myself yet, so not sure it counts as fantasy....)

The Girl with the Dragon Heart, by Stephanie Burgis, at Book Criac

Lampie and the Children of the Sea, by Annet Schaap, at Whispering Stories

The Mystwick School of Musicraft, by Jessica Khoury, at Sharon the Librarian

Race to the Sun, by Rebecca Roanhoures, at Ms. Yingling Reads, Book Page, and Bookshelf Fantasies

The Red Winter (The Tapestry #5), by Henry H. Neff, at Say What?

The Revenge of Magic, by James Riley, at Imaginary Friends

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co. #1), by Jonathan Stroud, at Sloth Reads

The Seeking Serum (Potion Masters #3), by Frank L. Cole, at Cracking the Cover

Snow White and the Seven Robots, by Stewart Ross, at Sharon the Librarian

The Thief Knot, by Kate Milford, at Charlotte's Library, Geek Dad, and The Neverending TBR

Time Sight, by Lynne Jonell, at Semicolon

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)

The Twelve, by Cindy Lin, at Charlotte's Library

Washed Up (Boy Band of the Appocalypse #2), by Tom Nicoll, at Always in the Middle

The Winterhouse Mysteries, by Ben Guterson, at Puss Reboots

A Wolf Called Wander, by Roseanne Parry, at Semicolon

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at Leaf's Reviews


Authors and Interviews

Michelle Harrison (A Sprinkle of Sorcery) at Book Trust ("the books that made me")

Other Good Stuff

A list of mythological fantasies beyond Rick Riordan, at Jean Little Library

Scary middle grade books ranked, at Falling Letters

Tor is kicking off a close re-reading of Prince Caspian; here's the intro. post