Here's what I found this week! I hope you enjoy. Let me know if I missed your post.
The Reviews
The Bigfoot Files, by Lindsay Eager, at
Mom Read It
Black Panther: the Young Prince, by Ronald L. Smith, at
proseandkahn (audiobook review)
Bluecrowne, by Kate Milford, at
The Fairview Review and
Charlotte's Library
Bob, by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead, at
alibrarymama and
Rajiv's Reviews
The Bone Thief, by Alyson Noel, at
Sharon the Librarian
Cats vs Robots: This is War, by Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson, at
Always in the Middle
Children of Jubilee, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, at
Mom Read It
City of Ghosts, by Victoria Schwab, at
Rajiv's Reviews
Del Toro Moon, by Darby Karchut, at
Charlotte's Library
Dragon Daughter, by Liz Flannagan, at
Read It, Daddy!
Garbage Island, by Fred Koehler, at
Miss Marple's Musings
Inkling, by Kenneth Oppel, at
Reading Rumpus
The Language of Spells, by Garret Weyr, at
Semicolon
The Last (Endling #1), by Katherine Applegate, at
Semicolon
Mabel Jones and the Forbidden City, by Will Mabbitt and Ross Collins, at
Puss Reboots
Mice of the Round Table: Merlin's Last Quest, by Julie Leung, at
Middle Grade Mafia
Secrets of Hopelight, by Eva Blackstone, at
Say What?
Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden, at
Booklist Reader
The Stone Girl's Story, by Sarah Beth Durst, at
Hidden in Pages
The Storm Runner, by J. C. Cervantes, at
Say What?
The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery, by Allison Rushby, at
Bibliobrit
Unwritten, by Tara Gilboy, at
A Dance With Books
Willa of the Wood, by Robert Beatty, at
Semicolon
(4 new books reviewed) "Kids' Fantasy Novels that Make Heroes Out of Underdogs" by Christopher Healey at
the NY Times
Authors and Interviews
Ally Condie and Brendan Reichs (The Deepdark) at
Publishers Weekly and
Nerdy Book Club
Darby Karchut (Del Toro Moon) at
Middle Grade Ninja
July Jeung (Mice of the Roundtable) at
Middle Grade Mafia
Other Good Stuff
Cybils Nominations are open until October 15, but those of us involved in the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction sure wish lots of people would nominate sooner rather than later, so we can stop worrying about all the great books that haven't been nominated yet! Here's a list of unnominated books at
Semicolon.And here are a few more off the top of my head--Bluecrowne, by Kate Milford, The Train to Impossible Places, by P.G. Bell, Wicked Nix, by Lena Coakely, The Bottle Imp of Brighthouse, by Tom Llewellyn, The Collectors, by Jacqueline West, A Festival of Ghosts, by William Alexander, and the Lost Continent, by Tui T. Sutherland (and many, many more--check to see what you were reading last fall! Books from October 16 2017-October 15 2018 are eligible, and I worry about those late 2017 titles....)
Netflix is
adapting Narnia....(and many of us sigh, because why not something new?)
Distinguishing between MG and YA fantasy--a gathering of thoughts at
SFWA
and now back to bingwatching Season of 2 of Stranger Things with my son who's home from college for the weekend!