This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (12/6/20)

Welcome to the last first round up of the month of 2020!  Here's what I found this week; please let me know if I missed your post.

The Reviews

Anya and the Dragon, by Sofiya Pasternack, at Fantasy Literature

Artemis Fowl (Book 1), by Eoin Colfer, at S.W. Lothian

The Battle of the Bodkins (Max and the Midknights #2), by Lincoln Peirce, at Ms. Yingling Reads 

Bloom by Kenneth Oppel, at Puss Reboots

Dragon Ops, by Mari Mancusi, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A Dreidel in Time: A new Spin on an Old Tale, by Marcia Berneger, illustrated by Beatriz Castro, at Randomly Reading

Frank Penny and the Last Black Stag, by Jeremy Elson, at Rajiv's Reviews and Jazzy Book Reviews

Gartgantis, by Thomas Taylor, at dinipandareads

Ghost Squad, by Claribel A. Ortega, at Say What?

The Girl and the Ghost, by Hanna Alkaf, at Charlotte's Library

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, at Completely Full Bookshelf 

Island in the Stars (The Problim Children #3)  by Natalie Lloyd, at Children's Books Heal

Jungledrop, by Abi Elphinstone, at Sifa Elizabeth Reads

The Lost Child’s Quest, by James Haddell, at Book Craic and Library Girl and Book Boy

The Magician's Elephant, by Kate DiCamillo, at Say What?

The Monster Who Wasn't by T.C. Shelley, at Geo Librarian 

The Narroway Trilogy, by Otillie Colter (Series Review) at A Dance With Books

Parsifal Rides the Time Wave, by Nell Chenault, at Semicolon

The Purple Bird, by Dylan Roche, at Books. Iced Lattes. Blessed.

The Retake, by Jen Calonita, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A Tale of Magic, by Chris Colfer, at divabooknerd

Tristan Strong Destroys the World by Kwame Mbalia, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)

Unlocked (Keeper of the Lost Cities 8.5) by Shannon Messenger, at Pages Unbound

Untwisted (Twinchantment #2), by Elise Allen, at Goodreads with Rona

Four at Feed Your Fiction Addiction--The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel by Sheela Chari, The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay, When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, and The Lost Wonderland Diaries by J. Scott Savage

Authors and  Interviews

Dianne Salerni (Eleanor, Alice & the Roosevelt Ghosts) at From the Mixed Up Files

Other Good Stuff

Here's the Costa Book Awards childrens book shortlist:

• Wranglestone by Darren Charlton (Little Tiger)
• Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant (Faber & Faber)
• The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates by Jenny Pearson (Usborne)
• The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff (Bloomsbury Publishing)