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This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and science fiction from around the blogs (4/21/19)


Happy Easter, those who are celebrating!  I was very tickled to find a steampunk Victorian card for today.

Here are the posts I found this week for us fans of mg sci fi and fantasy, and it was a slightly disappointing haul, and I wish that either there were more folks reviewing mg sff, or that I knew who I was missing! I follow lots of blogs in bloglovin, and also search for posts via google.  This week I also searched for specific new titles.  And still I didn't find many reviews.  So please, if you review mg sff, leave a comment so I can find your blog/Instagram/youtube channel etc!






The Reviews

Aru Shah and the Song of Death, by Rhosani Chokshi, at Ms. Yingling Reads and Take Me Away

Apprentice Needed, by Obert Skye, at Read Love and Cracking the Cover

Bone Hollow, by at YA and Kids Book Central

Dragonfell, by Sarah Prineas, at Charlotte's Library

Game of Stars, by Sayantani Dasgupta, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)

The Ghosts of Stone Hollow, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, at Say What?

Ice Wolves (Elementals #1) by Amie Kaufman, at Hasanthi's Book Blog and Say What?

The Lost Girl, by Anne Ursu, at Log Cabin Library

The Supernormal Sleuthing Service: the Sphinx's Secret, by Gwenda Bond and Christopher Rowe, at Locus

Watch Hollow, by Gregory Funaro, at Sci Fi and Scary

A Wolf Called Wander, by Roseanne Parry, at Ms. Yingling Reads

a handful of reviews at TheReadingWerewolf (YouTube)

Authors and Interviews

Caroline Carlson (The Door at the End of the World) at El Space

Anna Meriano (Love Sugar Magic series) at Reading With Your Kids Podcast

Sarah Beth Durst (several mg novels, including The Stone Girl's Story) at Locus

Zeno Alexander (The Library of Ever) at The Winged Pen

Tonja Drecker (Music Boxes) at Literary Rambles

Other good stuff

Holly Schofield talks about "The Big Impact of Small-Scale Fiction" for young sci-fi readers, at steaMG

Thoughts provoked by Anne Ursu's The Lost Girl, at From the Mixed Up Files

An article at the Guardian about why adults should read children's books


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