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This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (11/3/19)

Welcome to this week's round-up; please let me know if I missed your post!

The Reviews

The Thousand Year Old Boy, by Ross Welford, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander, at Say What?

The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup, at Say What?

Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Abby the Librarian

Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at A Garden of Books (audiobook review)

The Double Helix (Explorer Academy #3), by Trudy Truit, at Always in the Middle

The Dragon Thief, by Zetta Elliott, at Middle Grade Book Village and Charlotte's Library

The Dragon Warrior, by Katie Zhao, at Hit or Miss Books

Dragons in a Bag, by Zetta Elliott, at Middle Grade Book Village

The Fire Keeper, by J.C. Cervantes, at Feed Your Fiction Additiction

The Ghouls of Howlfair, by Nick Tomlinson, at Book Craic

Grimworld, by Avery Moray, at Jazzy Book Reviews

The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Mom Read It

The Impossible Boy, by Ben Brooks, at Book Craic

Music Boxes, by Tonja Drecker, at Defining Ways

The Mystwick School of Musicaft, by Jessica Khoury, at The Write Path

The Other Side of the Wall, by Amy Ephron, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

The Princess Who Flew With Dragons, by Stephanie Burgis, at Foreward Book Reviews

Rose Coffin, by M.P. Kozlowsky, at Charlotte's Library

Saving Fable (Talespinners), by Scott Reintgen, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Titans, by Kate O'Hearn, at The Never Ending TBR

The Tunnel of Bones, by Victoria Schwab, at Twirling Book Princess, The Zen Leaf and Imaginary Friends

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at Laughing Place

also seven new ones with blurbs by me at the B and N Kids Blog

Authors and Interviews

Thomas Taylor (Malamander) at Nerdy Book Club

Kara LaRue (Rise of the Zombert) at Middle Grade Book Village

K.G. Campbell (A Small Zombie Problem) and Laura Ellen Anderson (Amerlia Fang and the Barbaric Ball) at B and N Kids Blog

Other Good Stuff

A children's author and her son share their favorite middle grade fantasy fiction that features children of color, at embracerace blog

This year's Witch Week is off and running!

Publishers Weekly has announced its list of best kids books of 2019; not as much mg sff as I'd like, but still some good ones!

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The Princess Who Flew with Dragons, by Stephanie Burgis

I still am busily reading elementary/middle grade speculative fiction a in my roles as a judge for the Cybils Awards (mainly going back to re-read things I read early last year), but I am in good enough shape that I treated myself one dreary day last week to a shiny and new and much anticipated book-- The Princess Who Flew with Dragons , by Stephanie Burgis (Bloomsbury, November 2019). This is the third in the series that began with The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart (link to my review), and it's possibly the one I enjoyed most.  I certainly think it was the fastest read; it was a (more or less) single-sitting of about an hour read for me (when I like a book and need to know what's going to happen next, I read faster, and it was relatively short-- 216 pages). Princess Sophia, who we met in Book 2, The Girl with a Dragon Heart , is the main character here, and when her story begins, she's being sent by her older sister, the ruling princess, to a distant city to attend a Worl...
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The Dragon Thief, by Zetta Elliott

In Dragons in a Bag (link to my review), Zetta Elliott introduced a  young boy named Jaxon, who was given a job to do by a magical old woman, Ma.  He had to return three baby dragons to the world of magic.  It didn't go as planned, not that Jaxon knew enough about what was going on to really "plan" anything, but he did his best.  It wasn't enough.  One of the babies was stolen by Kavita, the little sister of his best friend, Vik. The Dragon Thief   (Random House, Oct 22 1019) picks up the story right where we left it.  Jaxon is worried about Ma, who has fallen into a strange sleep, and he's desperate to get the baby dragon to the magical world.  Kavita is worried about the baby dragon, which grows at an alarming rate when it gets fed.  When she realizes she can't keep it safe, her old aunty who lives with her family decides to help her get it home. So on the one hand we have Jaxon and Vik, racing to find Kavita while figuring out how they ca...
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The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, by Ronald L. Smith (review and interview)

I first had the pleasure of meeting Ronald L. Smith at Kidlitcon back in 2015 (PSA--come to Kidlitcon 2020 in Ann Arbor next March!).  His first middle grade book, Hoodoo, a tale of supernatural horror in the south, had just been published, and I enjoyed it very much ( my review ).  I likewise enjoyed The Mesmerist (2017), about kids fighting evil in 19th century London ( my review ).  I never reviewed Black Panther: the Young Prince (2018)….someday I will.  So in any event, I was very excited about his most recent book, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away (Clarion Books, February 2019). This is the story of an air force kid, Simon, son of a black mom and a white dad, who's obsessed with aliens.  He's convinced owl-like aliens have arrived, watching and experimenting on humans.  His family has no time or patience for aliens, so Simon is alone with his fears of the Grays, as he calls them.  When something very strange happens on a camping trip with hi...
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