The Oracle's Door, by Zetta Elliott (September 14, 2024), is a prequel to her Dragons in a Bag series, and though it stands on its own, ...

The Ship in the Garden , by Zetta Elliott (middle grade, 2023, independently published, 104 pages), this week's Timeslip Tuesday book, i...

This week's time travel book, Throwback , by Maurene Goo (YA, April 2023, Zando Young Readers), sends Samantha, the daughter of Korean i...

I very much enjoyed meeting Ethan Fairmont and his friends, including the alien they call Cheese in his first outing ( my review ) so I dove...

It was a pleasure to revisit Omega Morales in her second adventure-- Omega Morales and the Curse of El Cucuy (Omega Morales, 2)  by Laekan Z...

Though I mostly review middle grade sci fi/fantasy here, I do actually read other genres too! And Ways to Build Dreams , by Renée Watson, il...

It's almost time for me to post my regular Sunday round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi, but I am sneaking in a quick review of  A...

I first heard about The Destiny of Minou Moonshine , by Gita Ralleigh, when I was compiling a list of debut middle grade fantasy books for...

Yay me, for getting my Timeslip Tuesday act back together!  With a good one, no less-  The Rhythm of Time , by Questlove and S.A. Crosby   (...

The Enchanted Bridge (Dragons in a Bag #4), by Zetta Elliott ( J anuary 2023, Random House Books for Young Readers), sends Jaxon and his fr...

Yay for me!  I have a Timeslip Tuesday offering, and happily it was a book that was such a fast fun read that I was able to get it read betw...

My recent middle grade fantasy reading has been mostly mythology infused quests, and although it's great to have such a wealth of divers...

One of the reasons I enjoy reading for the first round of the Cybils Awards is that it puts books in my hands that I might otherwise not hav...

So the bulk of my reading these days is middle grade fantasy/sci fi for the Cybils Awards, and it never ceases to amaze me how the familiar ...

I really loved The Insiders, Mark Oshiro's 2021 queer, magical, middle school story ( my review ).  So I was very happy when You Only Li...

Children of the Quicksands , by Efua Traoré (July 2022 by Chicken House in the US, June 2021 in the UK), is a very excellent mg fantasy set ...

Eden's Everdark , by Karen Strong ( S eptember 6th 2022,Simon & Schuster), is a creepy ghostly middle grade horror story; but that b...

This year has been absolutely stellar for magical middle grade school stories; each one I've read has surprised me with its twists of th...

No MG sci fi/fantasy round-up today, as I am on vacation.  But I'm thrilled to have author Ryan Calejo visiting me here today! Charlie H...

Valentina Salazar is Not a Monster Hunter , by Zoraida Córdova (June 28, 2022, Scholastic) is a fun new middle grade fantasy perfect, just p...