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This week's round-up of middle grade fantasy and sci fi from around the blogs (9/8/19)


Here's what I found this week in my on-line reading of interest to us mg fantasy and sci fi fans! Please let me know of anything I missed.

First--
You have until Friday the 13 to apply to be a Cybils judge!  Please do; we'd love to welcome new folks to the wild reading and discussing fun that is the Cybils, and I, in particular, would love love love to welcome new folks to the category I'm responsible, Elementary Middle Grade Speculative Fiction.


The Reviews
Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire, by John August, at Imaginary Friends

Briar and Rose and Jack, by Katherine Coville, at Cracking the Cover

Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows, by Ryan Calejo, at Eli to the nth

Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Rajiv's Reviews

Dragon Slippers, by Jessica Day George, at Middle Grade Book Village

The Girl who Speaks Bear, by Sophie Anderson, at Magic Fiction Since Potter

Hunters for Hire (Monster Club #1), by Gavin Brown, at Say What?

Jagger Jones and the Mummy's Ankh, by Malayna Evans, at Reading, Writing, and Stitch-Metic

The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste, at Rajiv's Reviews

Lalani of the Distant Sea, by Erin Entrada Kelly, at Some the Wiser

Legacy and the Queen, by Annie Matthew, at Always in the Middle

The Little Grey Girl, by Celine Kiernan, at Charlotte's Library

Malamander, by Thomas Taylor, at Log Cabin Library

Princess BMX, by Marie Basting, at Storgy Kids

The Runaway Princess, by Kate Coombs, at Not Acting My Age

Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden, at Rajiv's Reviews and Fantasy Literature

The Train to Impossible Place, by P.G. Bell, at Puss Reboots

Two at Ms. Yingling Reads--The Battle, by Karuna Riazi, and The Jumbie God's Revenge, by Tracey Baptiste

Authors and Interviews

Lindsay Lackey (All the Impossible Things) at Nerdy Book Club and Fuse #8

Other Good Stuff

Check out the trailer for The Last Kids on Earth via Waking Brain Cells

An Ursula Le Guin approved tv version of Earthsea is coming! (more at Tor)










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