Welcome to this week's round-up of middle grade speculative fiction found in my blog reading this week! Sadly, last night I accidentally marked 181 posts as read in Bloglovin....so if you don't see your post here, that may be why, and please send me the link.
The Reviews:
11 Birthdays, by Wendy Mass, at Becky's Book Reviews
Battle of the Beasts, by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini, at Kid Lit Reviews
The Castle Behind Thorns, by Merrie Haskell, at Shae Has Left the Room and Rachel Neulmeier
Deadly Delicious, by K.L. Kincy, at Candace's Book Blog
Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at Bewitched Bookworms and Log Cabin Library
Dragon Keeper, by Carole Wilkinson, at Charlotte's Library
Dragon on Trial, by Tui T. Sutherland and Kari Sutherland, at Hidden In Pages
The Dragon's Egg, by H.B. Bolton, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia and Dear, Restless Reader
The Dyerville Tales, by M.P. Kozlowsky, at The Write Path
Egg and Spoon, by Gregory Maguire, at Educating Alice
The Feral Child, by Che Golden, at In Bed With Books
The Gargoyle in My Yard, by Philippa Dowding, at thebookshelfgargoyle (also with a review of Heart of Rock, by Becca Price)
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, by Sheila Turnage, at Good Books and Good Wine (audiobook review)
The Glass Sentence, by S.E. Grove, at The Book Swarm
Harding's Luck, by E. Nesbit, at Becky's Book Reviews
The Islands of Chaldea, by Diana Wynne Jones, at Manga Mania Cafe
The Luck Uglies, by Paul Durham, at Geo Librarian and Books Are Life
The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson, at Black Gate
Operation Bunny, by Sally Gardner, at Sharon the Librarian
Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy, by Karen Foxlee, at Kid Lit Geek
One Wish, by Michelle Harrison, at The Book Smugglers and Wondrous Reads
Ordinary Magic, by Caitlin Rubino-Bradway, at FangirlNation
The Quirks in Cirucs Quirkus, by Eriin Soderberg and Kelly Light, at Nayu's Reading Corner
The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu, at Semicolon
The Rithmatist, by Brandon Sanderson, at Kid Lit Geek
The Riverman, by Aaron Starmer, at Book Nut and Librarian of Snark
Saving Lucas Biggs, by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague, at Waking Brain Cells
The Scavengers, by Michael Perry, at Views From the Tesseract
The Search for Wond-La, by Tony DiTerlizzi, at Fantasy Literature
Seven Stories Up, by Laurel Snyder, at Time Travel Times Two, Two Heads Together, and The Children's Book Review
The Shadows, by Jacqueline West, at Good Books and Good Wine
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd, at Books in the Spotlight
Time and Mr. Bass, by Eleanor Cameron, at Tor
Trickster's Totem, by H.B. Bolton, at The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia
A Wishbone Come True (Puppy Powers) by Kristin Earhart at Ms. Yingling Reads
Zombie Baseball Beatdown, by Paolo Bacigalup, at Friends Share Books
Authors and Interviews
Jane Yolen on "rejection, reading out loud, and the keys to writing great books for kids" at The Huffington Post
Michelle Harrison (One Wish) at the Book Smugglers and at Wondrous Reads
Lisa Fiedler (Mouseheart) at Kid Lit Frenzy
Other Good Stuff
FangirlNation is live! "We embrace all levels or fandom, nerdery, geekdom and culture, knowing that in the end we are all passionate about something. We banish the concept of “fake geek girl” knowing every woman deserves the chance to love what she loves without being questioned for her dedication."
Pirates (including space pirates) at Views From the Tesseract and Orphans at Reads for Keeps (I am now trying to think of Speculative Fiction Orphaned Pirates)
Betsy at Fuse #8 comes up with a list of underrated middle grade books, many of which are fantasy
The Lost Kings of Faeryland, at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
And finally, news I just had to share (which might not be news to you, but I just found out about it): coming Sept. 16 is Lockwood and Co. book 2!
