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Geeks and the Holy Grail (Camelot Code #2), by Mari Mancusi, for Timeslip Tuesday

The first book in the Camelot Code series, The Once and Future Geek , mixed time travel between the medieval world of King Arthur and our own, and it is a very entertaining book.  The second book in the series, Geeks and Holy Grail (Hyperion, October 2019), is also entertaining (though not quite as funny; King Arthur as a modern day high school student is hard to beat....). When Morgana, sworn enemy of King Arthur, attacks the druids of Avalon, Nimue, the youngest of them, takes the Holy Grail and runs with it.  King Arthur is dying, and only the Grail can save him.  Desperate to keep it from falling into Morgana's hands, she stumbles into Merlin's Crystal Cave.  But instead of Merlin there to help her (he's on vacation in Los Vegas, in our time), there's only his very inexperienced apprentice, Emrys.  His attempt to hide the grail works, in a sense--as a small, flatulent dragon, it sure doesn't look much like a grail.  But it isn't much use to Arthur as a...
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This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (5/26/19)

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

BREAKING NEWS:  Kidlitcon 2020 will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan March 27th and 28, 2020!  The organizers this year are Katy Kramp @alibrarymama, Maggi Rhode, @mama_librarian, and Nekenya Yarbrough.  If you have any ideas for panels, or want to know more about being on panel, email kidlitcon@gmail.com.  A website is coming, but until then visit @kidlitcon on twitter.

The Reviews

Anya and the Dragon, by Sofiya Pasternack, at Hit or Miss Books 

Aru Shah and the End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi, at metalphantasmreads (audiobook review)

Boot: Small Robot, Big Adventure, by Shane Hegarty, at thereaderteacher

The First (Endling #2) by Katherine Applegate, at Say What?

The Girl with the Dragon Heart, by Stephanie Burgis, at Say What?

Lalalni of the Distant Sea, by Erin Entrada Kelly, at Abby the Librarian

The Library of Ever, by Zeno Alexander, at J.R.'s Book Reviews and Charlotte's Library

Lingering Echos, by Angie Smibert, at Always in the Middle

Malamander, by Thomas Taylor, at Whispering Stories

Maximillian Fly, by Angie Sage, at Fuse #8

Ogre Enchanged, by Gail Carson Levine, at Book Scents

The Polar Bear Explorers Club, by Alex Bell, at Pages Unbound

The Queen's Secret, by Jessica Day George, at The Story Sanctuary and Charlotte's Library

Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles (Ronan Boyle #1), by Thomas Lennon, at Say What?

The Shadow Cipher, by Laura Ruby, at 24hryabookblog

Spark, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Ms. Yingling Reads and pamelakramer.com

Spindrift and the Orchid, by Emma Trevayne, at Not Acting My Age

Tilly and the Book Wanderers, by Anna James, at A Dance With Books

We're Not From Here, by Geoff Rodkey, at proseandkahn

and at the B. and N. Kids blog, I made a list of recent series starters that has a lot of fantasy on it....

Authors and Interviews

Dominique Valente (Starfell Willow Moss and the Lost Day), at thereaderteacher (also review)

Rajani LaRocca (Midsummer's Mayhem) at Kidlit411 and, with her agent Brent Taylor, at Literary Rambles

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Order of the Majestic, by Matt Myklusch

Order of the Majestic , by Matt Myklusch (middle grade, Aladdin, May 7 2019), is one to offer kids dreaming of magic, and hoping it will find them one day. 12-year-old Joey Kopecky wasn't one of those kids.  He was content flying under the radar, living an unambitious life of computer gaming in New Jersey, when his life was upended by perfect standardized test scores.  Now he's been offered a place at one of the most exclusive schools in the country, where every kid is a genius.  He feels like a fraud--knowing how to take tests is a skill, certainty , but is it really a hallmark of genius? But one final test, a strange one involving 150 magic tricks to solve, leads to a 151st trick that transports him to the ghostly shell of a once grand magical theater, the Majestic.  It's fallen into ruins, and to get inside Jack must pass through spooky wraiths, but once he makes it, he finds the magician who once made it famous, the Great Rodondo.  Rodondo was once the leade...
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this week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (7/14/19)

Here's what I found this week; please let me know of anything I missed! The Reviews And All Between (Green Sky #3), by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, at Say What? The Book of Dust, by Philip Pullman, at Girl With Her Head in a Book Brightstorm, by Vashti Hardy, at Charlotte's Library Changling (the Oddmire #1), by William Ritter, at Metalphantasmreads , Storythreads , and Bookworm for Kids The Haunting of Henry Davis, by Kathryn Siebel, at From My Bookshelf The House with Chicken Legs, by Sophie Anderson, at Arkham Reviews The Longest Night of Charlie Moon, by Christopher Edge, at Middle Grade Mafia The Lost Tide Warriors, by Catherine Doyle, at Book Craic  The Magic Bed-Knob, by Mary Norton, at Fantasy Literature Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at Heather's Reading Hideaway The Rithmatist, by Brandon Sanderson, at Read Till Dawn Serafina and the Seven Stars, by Robert Beatty, at the B and N Kids Blog Ship Rats: A Tale of Heroism on the High Seas, by R...
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The Shores Beyond Time, by Kevin Emerson

The Shores Beyond Time , by Kevin Emerson, is the third book in the Chronicle of the Dark Star series that began with Last Day on Mars , and continued in The Oceans Between Stars (links to my reviews).   Basically the premise is humanity, and an alien race with whom humanity is at war, are out among the stars after our sun went nova (and some other stars have too), both races looking for new homes (the aliens because humanity decided the Telphon's planet would be a great new home, and essentially nuked it, so there are only about three hundred of them left).  One human boy, Liam, and one Telphon girl, who goes by Phoebe, became friends on Mars and Liam met an ancient time travelling alien of a different species (as told in the first book) and were both separated from their people on a long lonely space flight, and Liam started travelling in time himself (the second book). In this third book, Liam and Phoebe find themselves at the heart of the mystery of the supernovas and the...
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