Welcome to another round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction posts from around the blogs! Every week I scour the web for posts, and this is what I found this time around.
Annother good round-up is Shannon Messenger's Marvelous Middle Grade Monday feature, where Shannon cheerleads an enthusiastic cabal of active contributors. I feel rather wistful that I haven't been able to generate the same excitement for my round-ups; out of all the links below, only one was sent directly too me, and because I look for posts written on any day of the week, I don't expect people to mention these round-ups when they review mf sff.
So anyway, feel free to send me links! You can even send me links to posts you didn't write! Authors--you are welcome to send me reviews from the past week! (I do, however, always reserve the right not to include reviews that are too brief or insubstantial to seem worth linking too, or which don't seem a good fit to me). My email address is charlotteslibrary at gmail dot com.
Feel free to review more new releases of mg sff! There are lots of books that get almost no blog coverage at all--I had time on my hands this morning, and looked for reviews of recent releases, and came up virtually empty.
Mentions of these round-ups are also appreciated--thanks all of you who've done so in the past!
The Reviews:
The 13th Horseman, by Barry Hutchison, at Mr. Ripleys Enchanted Books
Above World, by Jenn Reese, at Tripping Over Books
The Apothacary, by Maile Meloy, at books4yourkids
Ash Mistry and the Savage Fortress, by Sarwat Chadda, at The Book Zone
The Aviary, by Kathleen O'Dell, at books4yourkids
Bad Island, by Doug TenNapel, at Finding Wonderland
The Cabinet of Earths, by Anne Nesbit, at Karissa's Reading Review
The Cheshire Cheese Cat, by Carmen Agra Deedy and Randall Wright, at Reads for Keeps
The Demon's Watch, by Conrad Mason, at Babbleabout (also an interview)
Enchantress from the Stars, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (audio book review), at Sonderbooks
Entwinned, by Heather Dixon, at Jenny's Books
The Freedom Maze, by Delia Sherman, at The Book Smugglers
Henrietta Sharp and the Magic Lunchbox, by Jan Welborn-Nichols, at The Children's Book Review
The Humming Room, by Ellen Potter, at The Adventures of Cecelia Bedelia, The Hollo
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on 3/4/2012
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I'm glad you do these round ups. It shows that there are some people out there reviewing middle grade books.
I don't know why I didn't think to send you my link before now, but I'm going to do it regularly.
Maybe you should change this to a Monday feature and link it up with the Monday Middle Graders. Because you show so much more middle grade than us who are reviewing or talking about one book. Just an idea.
Also, my interview with Merrie Haskell is with a giveaway of The Princess Curse if you can fix that in the links.
The problem with doing it on a Monday is that I have to go to work...where I can't even reply to comments!
And thanks so much for being a regular reader/contributor!
giveaway added! Thanks.
Duh. Of course I should send you my links. I am glad it didn't occur to Natalie, either. I always look forward to it, but there was a cognitive disconnect in my thought process. The only fantasy book I reviewed in the past week was Article 5
http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com/2012/02/dystopias-real-and-fictional.html
Having this on Sunday is great, because I am madly trying to make sure I've done my Nonfiction Monday and Middle Grade Monday, so now I'll remember to let you know about any fantasy. Ha! Ha! Organization!! (Or what passes for such in my world.)
Thanks! Article 5 seems more teenish to me, though...so I will regretfully pass on it.
As always, thanks for hosting the round-up. I wasn't sure if The Humming Room counted as fantasy!
Novel Novice is also hosting a Middle Grade March event this month (it's popular!).
Thanks for the mention, Charlotte!
I find that I need to go out of my way to find MG to review--I'm sent plenty of YA, but only very rarely MG. Need to make better use of Netgalley, I suppose!
I have to join in with Natalie and Yingling and say that I have been silly in not sending my links, but only reading the round up. I enjoy seeing it, but somehow never thought to send in my own. Silly, Silly me.
I review childrens, MG, YA, and adult.. but I think all my MG reads are already listed above, But I will hopefully remember to send you some next time around.
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thanks!
I just read it myself--I was assuming it was, and still, in a very tentative way, think it is--there's the bit about Roo hearing the earth, for instance, and the mystical presence of Philip's mother....It definitly didn't feel "realistic" but I'm a bit on the fence.
That's why I started these--because YA sff review were a dime a dozen, but not the mg! I guess there are simply more bloggers who automatically turn to YA for their own reading pleasure, and fewer of us who really enjoy mg for its own sake!