This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs etc (10/23/22)

Not much from me this week; it was Parent's Weekend at college (Bard, in the Hudson River Valley), so I got beautiful scenery and delicious apples (and time with my dear child) instead of reading:

But happily there are lots of other posts to share!  Let me know if I missed yours.

The Reviews

Always, Clementine, by Carlie Sorosiak, at Rosi Hollinbeck

The Brothers Flick: The Impossible Doors, by Ryan Haddock and Nick Wyche, at The Bookwyrm's Den

The Chestnut Roaster, by Eve McDonnell, at Scope for Imagination

The Dragon in the Bookshop by Ewa Jozefkowicz, at Hidden In Pages (audiobook review)

A Dragon Used to Live Here, by Annette LeBlanc Cate, at Semicolon

The Frost Fair, by Natasha Hastings, at Sifa Elizabeth Reads

The Ghost of Spruce Point, by Nancy Tandon, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Homebound, by John David Anderson, at  Say What?: 

The Mummy’s Curse (The Butterfly Club #2), by M.A. Bennett, at Scope for Imagination

Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, by Catherynne M. Valente, at Puss Reboots

Outside Nowhere, by Adam Borba, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A Pinch of Magic, by Michelle Harrison, at Valinora Troy

The Rabbit's Gift, by Jessica Vitalis, at Middle Grade Minded

Seekers of the Fox (Thieves of Shadow #2), by Kevin Sands, at Cracking the Cover

She's Still Here, by Caitlin Alexander, at Bookworm for Kids

Skunk and Badger, by Amy Timberlake (series review), at The Children's Book Review

The Story of Green River, by Holly Webb, at Scope for Imagination

Tall Tales by James Riley (Once Upon Another Time #2), at Carstairs Considers

Theo Tan and the Spirit Fox by Jesse Q. Sutanto, at Book Dragon

Unmasked (Fright Watch #3), by Lorien Lawrence, at Barb Hopkins

The Vanishing of Aveline Jones, by Phil Hickes & Keith Robinson, at Scope for Imagination

The Verdigris Pawn, by Alysa Wishingrad, at Valinora Troy

What Lives in the Woods, by Lindsay Currie, at Fantasy Literature

Windswept, by Margi Preus, at Sonderbooks

Winnie Zeng Unleashes a Legend [Winnie Zeng, Book 1] by Katie Zhao, at Book Dragon

You Only Live Once, David Bravo, by Mark Oshiro, at Charlotte's Library

Authors and Interviews

Katherine Applegate (Odder), at The Children's Book Review

Katherine Arden (Small Spaces et seq.), at Fuse #8

 Nisi Shawl (Speculation), at WNDB

Adam Borba (Outside Nowhere) at Nine Bookish Lives

Ellen Potter (Hither & Nigh), at Writers Digest

Amy Herrick (The Tiltersmith), at Always in the Middle

Other Good Stuff

At Heavy Medal--"Mock Newbery Fantasy Contenders: Mapmaker, Ogress and Windswept"  I myself don't think Windswept and Ogress have quite what it takes, but have no other fantasy in mind I think might make it....