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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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The Secret

This week's round-up of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (8/25/19)

Welcome to this round-up of what I found in my blog reading this week!  Please let me know of any posts I missed.

First up--the call for judges for the Cybils Awards has gone up!  Since 2006, the
Cybils has recognized kids and YA books that combine both literary merit and kid appeal in a variety of categories, and one of these is Middle Grade Speculative Fiction (the category I organize)!  There are two rounds of judging, the first creating a shortlist, and the second picking the winner, and so there's room for lots of folks to join in and be part of the judging panels!  It is lots of fun.  So much so that many of the same folks want do Middle Grade Speculative Fiction every year, and although I love them dearly, it would be great to have some fresh volunteers!

All you have to do to be eligible is to review books somewhere on line--podcasting, book tubbing, blogging, Goodreads reviews, Instagram, etc.

Teens are eligible too (with parents permission if under 18), and being one of the judges for a nationally recognized book award looks great on a college application.....

Here's a post I wrote with more information, and please let me know directly if you have any questions!

The Reviews

Babysitting Nightmares, books 1-3,by Kat Shepherd, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The Battle, by Karuna Riazi, at Pages Unbound and A Dance With Books

Cape (The League of Secret Heroes book 1), by Kate Hannigan, at The Children's War

Changling (The Oddmire 1) by William Ritter, at Charlotte's Library

Crumbled! by Lisa Harkrader, at Pages Unbound

Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, at alibrarymama

Game of Stars. Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond 2, by Sayantani Dasgupta, at alibrarymama

The Haunting of Henry Davis, by Kathryn Siebel, at Always in the Middle

Hidden Scales (Merrows Book 1), by A.M. Robin, at Pages for Thoughts

The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Read Till Dawn

The House on Parchment Street, by Patricia McKillip, at Fantasy Literature

The Jumbie God's Revenge, by Tracy Baptiste, at J.R.'s Book Reviews

The Lost Girl, by Anne Ursu, at alibrarymama and Semicolon

Mightier than the Sword, by Drew Callander and Alana Harrison, at Always in the Middle

The Minions of Time (The Wormling #4), byJerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry, at Say What?

Moominland Midwinter, by Tove Jansson, at Girl With Her Head in a Book

 Princess Who Flew With Dragons, by Stephanie Burgis, at Moon Dreams

The Secrets of Winterhouse, by Ben Guterson, at Puss Reboots

Silver Batal and the Water Dragon Races, byK.D. Holbrook, at Say What?

Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy, at proseandkahn

Spark, by Sarah Beth Durst, at Susan Uhlig

The Storm Runner, by J.C. Cervantes, at Geo Librarian

The Unbelievable Oliver and the Four Jokers, by Pseudonymous Bosch, at Geo Librarian

Two at Mom Read It--Hello, Neighbor, by Carly Anne West, and In the Land of Broken Time, by Max Even

Authors and Interviews

Kate Hannigan (Cape) at Middle Grade Ninja

Other Good Stuff

SCBWI has a new grant for writers of mg sci fi and fantasy

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Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden

Dead Voices , by Katherine Arden (middle grade, G.P. Putnam's Sons, August 2019), is a delightfully spooky sequel to Small Spaces , perfect for a chilling read as winter draws closer! Ollie, Coco, and Brian became close friends under somewhat trying circumstances last fall--the evil Smiling Man trying to turn them into scarecrows--and now winter has come, they're on their way to a fun weekend at a new ski lodge with Ollie's dad and Coco's mom.  They almost don't make it through the intense snowstorm, and when they arrive, they find themselves the only visitors.  The snow keeps falling, trapping them inside, and the power goes out.  And there are ghosts. The day after they arrive another visiter makes it through the snow, a young reporter for a ghost hunting magazine.  The owners of the hotel aren't sure that publicity about the hotel's previous incarnation of an orphanage with a dark, sad, history is what they want, but the young man is keen to get ghost hun...
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Premeditated

I'm going to start with the blurb from the back cover of this book, because it does a remarkable job of introducing the story in very few words: A week ago, Dinah’s cousin Claire cut her wrists. Five days ago, Dinah found Claire’s diary and discovered why. Three days ago, Dinah stopped crying and came up with a plan. Two days ago, she ditched her piercings and bleached the black dye from her hair. Yesterday, knee socks and uniform plaid became a predator’s camouflage. Today, she’ll find the boy who broke Claire. By tomorrow, he’ll wish he were dead. Claire and Dinah are cousins who are incredibly close, close enough that when Claire ends up in a coma in the hospital from a failed suicide attempt, Dinah knows where to look to find Claire's diary (or the computerized version of one, anyway). Dinah figures out what drove Claire to the point of suicide--a boy from the private school that Claire was supposed to attend that fall. Dinah enrolls at the school herself, determined to get...
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Storm

By: D.J. MacHale This is the sequel to SYLO where a small island off the coast of Maine was invaded by the US Navy (the US navy is called SYLO).  The main characters, Tucker, Kent, Olivia, and Tori escaped from Pemberwick and got to Portland, Maine.  In Storm they pick up another character, Jon, a doctor from a Portland hospital.  As it turns out the US Navy is at war with the US Airforce.  Over three fourths of the worlds population is dead.  Tucker, Tori, Kent, Olivia, and, Jon are trying to get to Nevada where a radio signal they picked up said to come if they wanted to fight back.  There is a lot of action and the plot moves along at a good pace.  One thing that was different from the first book was how much you found out about their relationships.  Kent is with Olivia and Tucker is with Tori.  It sort of bothered me that they were so into who was with who when they were trying to figure out why most of the world's population was killed. ...
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