This week's roundup of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (1/30/22)

 Greatings from snowy Rhode Island!  Here's what I found this week of interest to us fans of mg sci fi/fantsy; please let me know if I missed your post!

first, congratulations to The Last Cuentista for winning the Newberry Award and the Pura Belpré Award, and Too Bright to See, for its Newberry Honor! Also to Temple Alley Summer, for the Batchelder Award! MG sci fi/fantasy ftw! (here's the full list of ALA Youth Media Awards)

The Reviews

Beasts and Beauty, by Soman Chainani, at Sonderbooks

Daughter of the Deep, by Rick Riordan, at Say What? and proseandkahn

The Gilded Girl, by Alyssa Colman, at Staircase Wit

The Girl in the Lake, by India Hill Brown, at Twirling Book Princess

Greta and the Ghost Hunters, by Sam Copeland, at alexsfictionaddiction

Hangman's Crossing (Embassy of the Dead #2), by Will Mabbitt, at Sally's Bookshelf

The Hideaway, by Pam Smy, at Ms. Yingling Reads

In the Red, by Christopher Swiedler, at Sonderbooks

Kingston and the Echoes of Magic, by Rucker Moses and Theo Gangi, at Always in the Middle

The Keeper, by Guadalupe Garcia McCall, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Kelcie Murphy and the Academy for the Unbreakable Arts, by Erika Lewis, at The Bookwyrm's Den

The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera, at Book Nut and Of Maria Antonia

The Longest Night of Charlie Moon, by Christopher Edge, at Charlotte's Library

People of the Sun (The Eye of Ra #3), by Ben Gartner, at Say What?

Ripped Away, by Shirley Reva Vernick, at Pamela Kramer

A Storm of Sisters, by Michelle Harrison, at Book Craic

The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid, by Matt Wallace, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Tiger Honor, by Yoon Ha Lee, at Puss Reboots

The Tower at the End of Time, by Amy Sparkes, at Library Girl and Book Boy and Sifa Elizabeth Reads

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy, by Anne Ursu, at Valinora Troy

This Last Adventure by Ryan Dalton, at  Say What?

The Unforgetable Logan Foster, by Shawn Peters, at Reading Middle Grade

The Weeping Tide, by Amanda Foody, at Bookworm for Kids

Welcome to Dweeb Club, by Betsy Uhrig, at Books YA Love

Authors and Interviews

Shawn Peters (The Unforgettable Logan Foster) at Literary Rambles

Brian Farrey (The Counter-Clockwise Heart), at Publishers Weekly

 

Other Good Stuff

"C.S. Lewis, Calormen, and How Fans Are Reclaiming the Fictionalized East," at Tor