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The week's round-up of middle grade science fiction and fantasy from around the blogs (7/28/19)

Here's what I found this week; please let me know of anything I missed!

(It may not be the longest list of links ever, but still I visited three blogs new to me and found two books I'd not yet heard of, so that's a win in my book!)

The Reviews

Artemis Fowl, by Eoin Colfer, at Madison's Inkwell

The Bad Luck Lighthouse, by Nicki Thornton, at thereaderteacher

Bad Order, by B.B. Ullman, at Always in the Middle

Banneker Bones and the Alligator People, at Charlotte's Library

Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book, by Jennifer Donnelly, at Pages Unbound

Bone Garden by Heather Kassner, at Log Cabin Library 

The Camelot Code, by Mari Mancusi, at Cover2Cover

Carnival Catastrophe (The Problim Children #2) by Natalie Lloyd, at Log Cabin Library

Changling (The Oddmire #1), by William Ritter, at Carina's Books, Young Adult Books-What We're Reading Now, and Howling Libraries

Darkwood, by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, at Rachel Neumeier

The Dragon in the Library, by Louie Stowell, at Book Craic

The Morganas and the Jewel of Bar-Ran, by K.T. Dady, at A Garden of Books

Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at proseandkahn (audiobook review)

Outwalkers, by Fiona Shaw, at Hidden in Pages

The Root of Magic by Kathleen Benner Duble, at proseandkahn and The Book Monsters

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying, by Kelly Armstrong, at Sharon the Librarian

The Simple Art of Flying, by Cory Leonardo, at This Kid Reviews Books

The Strangers, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, at Becky's Book Reviews

Through the Untamed Sky (Riders of the Realm #2), by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez, at Say What?

The Tzar's Curious Runaways, by Robin Scott-Elliot, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

Until the Celebration (Green Sky #3), by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, at Say What?

Urchin of the Riding Stars (Mistmantle Chronicles #1), by M.I. McAllister, at Redeemed Reader 

Authors and Interviews

Chris Colfer (A Tale of Magic) at USA Today








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