This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (6/28/20)

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

The Reviews

Bob's Saucer Repair, by Jerry Boyd, at A Garden of Books

Catalyst, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The Creature of the Pines (Unicorn Rescue Society #1), by Adam Gidwitz, at Twirling Book Princess

Dragon Detective: School’s Out, by Gareth P Jones, at Readaraptor

Esme’s Gift, by Elizabeth Foster, at Mai's Musings
The Forgotten Door, by Alexander Key, at Semicolon

Friend or Fiction, by Abby Cooper, at Rajiv's Reviews

The Girl and the Witch's Garden by Erin Bowman, at Girl Who Reads

Guest, by Mary Downing Hahn, at Books in the Middle

Hollow Dolls by MarcyKate Connolly, at The Literary Maven

Mañanaland, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, at Books4YourKids

Misadventures of a Magician's Son, by Laurie Smollett Kutscera, at Kid Lit Reviews

The Mysterious Woods of Whistle Root, by Christopher Pennell, at Woodpecker Books

Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe, by Carlos Hernandez, at Mom Read It

Spell & Spindle, by Michelle Schusterman, at Puss Reboots

The Stone Cage, by Nicholas Stuart Gray, guest post by Kate Forsyth at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows, by J.M. Bergen, at The Geekish Brunette

Thomas Wildus and the Wizard of Sumeria, by J.M. Bergen, at Always in the Middle

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, by Adrianna Cuevas, at Books. Iced Lattes. Blessed.

Twighlight Hauntings, by Angie Sage, at Magic Fiction Since Potter

The Unready Queen (Oddmire #2), by William Ritter, at J.R.'s Book Reviews, Evelyn Reads, Jill's Book Blog, The Reading Chemist, Motif by Tanya, and Read Love

Two at Ms. Yingling Reads--Catalyst, by Sarah Beth Durst and  Artemis Fowl: How to be a LEPrecon, by Matthew K. Manning

Authors and Interviews

Maria Kuzniar (The Ship of Shadows) at Stephanie Burgis

Henry Clark (What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon) talks about world building at diy MFA podcast

Laura Stegman (Summer of L.U.C.K.) at MG Book Village

Other Good Stuff

Tor's rereading of The Silver Chair continues