This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (3/14/21)

Welcome to this week's round-up, and a sad farewell to our lost hour.  Please let me know if I missed your post.

The Reviews

The Ash House by Angharad Walker, at Rajiv's Reviews

Begone the Raggedy Witches, by Celine Kiernan, at Leaf's Reviews

City of Secrets, by Victoria Ying, at Pages Unbound

The Crowns of Coswald, by D.E. Night, at Lost in Neverland

Dragon Mountain, by Katie & Kevin Tsang, at Litericious

Hollowpox (Nevermore #3) by Jessica Townsend, at Completely Full Bookshelf

Legacy of Blood (Spartan Warrior #3), by Michael Ford, at Say What?

The Midnight Gaurdians, by Ross Montgomery, at Spread Book Joy (You Tube)

Oddity by Eli Brown, at Log Cabin Library

One Jar of Magic by Corey Ann Haydu, at Rajiv's Reviews

The Storm Keeper's Battle, by Catherine Doyle, at Sifa Elizabeth Reads

Unlocked by Shannon Messenger, at Justine Laismith

Two at Ms. Yingling Reads--The Serpent's Nest (Young Captain Nemo #3), by Jason Henderson, and The Memory Thief (Thirteen Witches #1), by Jodi Lynn Anderson

Two at Bookends--Da Vinci’s Cat, by Catherine Gilbert Murdock, and The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother), by David Levithan

The spring issue of Armadillo Magazine (which I had never heard of before this week; my loss) is full of great reviews from the UK

And here are some reviews from The Guardian

Authors and Interviews

 Marie Arnold (The Year I Flew Away) at MG Book Village

Kaela Rivera (Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls) at MG Book Village 

Mikki Lish and Kelly Ngai (The Magician's Map), at Library Girl and Book Boy

Chris Wormell (The Magic Place) by Library Girl and Book Boy and A Cat, a Book, and a Cup of Tea

A Cat, a Book, and a Cup of Tea

Donna Galanti (Unicorn Island) at Literary Rambles

Nick Goss (Hacker Jack) at Middle Grade Ninja podcast

Other Good Stuff and a Sad

RIP Norman Juster.  

V.E. Schwab’s City of Ghosts Is Getting a TV adaptation, via Tor

The new Hans Christen Anderson museum in Denmark looks remarkable, but I will wait a few years to give the topiary a chance to grow to match the vision shown here.