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...
Welcome to this week's round-up; please let me know if I missed your post!
Here's why I do these round-ups--
--for selfish reasons
I started because I wanted someone else to present me with all the mg sff reviews, but had to do it myself
--for another reason
I want to connect with all the other folks reviewing mg sff so that I can plug the Cybils Awards. I'm the Cybil's organizer for the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category, and in just a few months, the call for Cybils Awards panelists will be going out. I love all the panelists that have joined me in years past, but it would be great to have some fresh faces, and I would really love more diversity in my group of panelists. You don't have to have a blog, just an online platform you use to talk about books (goodreads, youtube, podcasting, Instagram, etc.) In the first round, which is most of the reading, we keep it to folks in North America, but international folks can be second round panelists (fewer books to get a hold of). Here's a post I wrote a while back about being a panelist; please think about applying when the call goes out, and please let me know if you have any questions.
The Reviews
Aru Shah and the Song of Death, by Roshani Chokshi, at The Reader Bee, Hypable, and the B. and N. Kids Blog (my review) and a look at both books at Books and Waffles
The Assasination of Brangwain Spurge, by M.T. Anderson and You at Book Invasion (YouTube)
The Collectors, by Jacqueline West, at Redeemed Reader
The Fire Maker, by Guy Jones, at Magic Fiction Since Potter
Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2), by Sayantani Dasgupta, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Golden Butterfly, by Sharon Gosling, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books
Hamilin Stoop series, by Robert B. Sloan, at Tots and Me
Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath, by Jacob Sager Weinstein, at Tales from the Raven
A Long Forgotten World, by Shannon Briwen, at Rising Shadow
The Middler, by Kirsty Applebaum, at Schoolzone
Music Boxes, by Tonja Drecker, at Charlotte's Library
Nell and the Cirus of Dreams, by Nell Gifford and Briony May Smith, at The Lancashire Post
Nevermore: the Trials of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at A Strong Belief in Wicker
The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, by Ronald L. Smith, at Always in the Middle
Riverland, by Fran Wilder, at Charlotte's Library
Rumble Star, by Abi Elphinstone, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books
Runaway Robot, by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, at Minerva Reads
Sweep, by Jonathan Auxier, at The O.W.L.
Trace, by Pat Cummings, at Fuse#8
Authors and Interviews
Kelly Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon) at the B. and N. Kids Blog
Kim Ventrella (Bone Hollow) shares her thoughts on magical realism in mg at Middle Grade Minded
Other Good Stuff
A gathering of books for Star Wars loving kids at Brightly
Here's why I do these round-ups--
--for selfish reasons
I started because I wanted someone else to present me with all the mg sff reviews, but had to do it myself
--for another reason
I want to connect with all the other folks reviewing mg sff so that I can plug the Cybils Awards. I'm the Cybil's organizer for the Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction category, and in just a few months, the call for Cybils Awards panelists will be going out. I love all the panelists that have joined me in years past, but it would be great to have some fresh faces, and I would really love more diversity in my group of panelists. You don't have to have a blog, just an online platform you use to talk about books (goodreads, youtube, podcasting, Instagram, etc.) In the first round, which is most of the reading, we keep it to folks in North America, but international folks can be second round panelists (fewer books to get a hold of). Here's a post I wrote a while back about being a panelist; please think about applying when the call goes out, and please let me know if you have any questions.
The Reviews
Aru Shah and the Song of Death, by Roshani Chokshi, at The Reader Bee, Hypable, and the B. and N. Kids Blog (my review) and a look at both books at Books and Waffles
The Assasination of Brangwain Spurge, by M.T. Anderson and You at Book Invasion (YouTube)
The Collectors, by Jacqueline West, at Redeemed Reader
The Fire Maker, by Guy Jones, at Magic Fiction Since Potter
Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2), by Sayantani Dasgupta, at Ms. Yingling Reads
The Golden Butterfly, by Sharon Gosling, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books
Hamilin Stoop series, by Robert B. Sloan, at Tots and Me
Hyacinth and the Secrets Beneath, by Jacob Sager Weinstein, at Tales from the Raven
A Long Forgotten World, by Shannon Briwen, at Rising Shadow
The Middler, by Kirsty Applebaum, at Schoolzone
Music Boxes, by Tonja Drecker, at Charlotte's Library
Nell and the Cirus of Dreams, by Nell Gifford and Briony May Smith, at The Lancashire Post
Nevermore: the Trials of Morrigan Crow, by Jessica Townsend, at A Strong Belief in Wicker
The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, by Ronald L. Smith, at Always in the Middle
Riverland, by Fran Wilder, at Charlotte's Library
Rumble Star, by Abi Elphinstone, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books
Runaway Robot, by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, at Minerva Reads
Sweep, by Jonathan Auxier, at The O.W.L.
Trace, by Pat Cummings, at Fuse#8
Authors and Interviews
Kelly Barnhill (The Girl Who Drank the Moon) at the B. and N. Kids Blog
Kim Ventrella (Bone Hollow) shares her thoughts on magical realism in mg at Middle Grade Minded
Other Good Stuff
A gathering of books for Star Wars loving kids at Brightly
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