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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 roundup of middle grade sci fi and fantasy from around the blogs (8/4/19)

Welcome to another week of my blog reading, hunting for mg speculative fiction reviews and news!  Please let me know if I missed your post.

The Reviews

Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball, by Laura Ellen Anderson, at Always in the Middle and Feed Your Fiction Addiction

Aru Shan and the End of Time, by Roshani Chokshi, at Rajiv's Reviews

The Bone Garden, by Heather Kassner, at Charlotte's Libary


The Book of the King (The Wormling #1) by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry, at Say What?

Briar and Rose and Jack, by Katherine Coville, at Pages Unbound

Fire Girl, Forest Boy, by Chloe Daykin, at Magic Fiction Since Potter

The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill, at Book Craic

Lair of the Beast (Snared #2)., by Adam Jay Epstein, at Say What?

The Lost Tide Warriors, by Catherine Doyle, at Magic Fiction Since Potter

Love Sugar Magic series review, by Anna Meriano, at Falling Letters

Moonlocket (Cogheart #2), by Peter Bunzl, at A Dance With Books

A Small Zombie Problem, by K.G. Campbell, at Geo Librarian

The Sword of the Wormling (The Wormling #2), by Jerry B. Jenkins and Chris Fabry, at Say What?

Authors and Interviews

Jess Redman (The Miraculous) at Middle Grade Book Village

Heidi Land and Kati Bartkowski (A Pinch of Phoenix, Magical Cooking Chronicles #3) at Middle Grade Book Village

Other Good Stuff

What's new in the UK, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

"Middle Grade and YA fantasties to read based on your Hogwarts House" at Pages Unbound

The Kidlitcon 2020 website is up and running!  Check it out, and make your plans to come to Ann Arbor next March for a great time with kindred spirits!  And if you're interested in being on the program, let the organizers know!  Thanks to the generosity of the Ann Arbor library, there's no registration fee this year.


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The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper

If you are a fantasy fan who loves quirky small museums with collections of oddities, you will love  The Hippo at the End of the Hall , by Helen Cooper (first published in the UK in 2017, now out in the US from Candlewick, Oct 2019). Ben's invitation to the Gee Museum was delivered by bees.  He'd never heard of the place before, but despite his mother's reservations about letting him go there on his own (reservations which seem, for reasons, to be a bit much, even taking into account the fact that Ben's only ten)  he went...There, in its rooms full of taxidermidied creatures, other natural history collections, a glass bee hive, and clocks and other treasures collected by the Gee family from around the world years ago, he found magic, and the truth about his father, who died many years ago while off on an expedition of his own. Ben also found danger, one of my personal least favorite types of danger--the unscrupulous developer, in this case paired with the unscrupulous d...
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The Moon Over Crete, by Jyotsna Sreenivasan, for Timeslip Tuesday

The Moon Over Crete , by Jyotsna Sreenivasan (1996, Smooth Stone Press), is a slightly older children's time travel story, interesting for several reasons. It's the story of a modern girl, 11-year-old Lily, whose mom is Indian American, and whose dad is European American.  Lily is finding it difficult being a girl--her best friend is interested in dressing to impress boys, a boy in her class is sexually harassing her and no one is doing anything about it, her mother isn't letting her do things (like go exploring off in the woods) that she'd be allowed to do if she were a boy.  Lily's flute teacher, Mrs. Zinn, is the only one who seems to understand Lily's growing resentment. And happily for Lily, Mrs. Zinn is a time-traveler, fond of visiting ancient Crete, where (in this fictional world) there is almost utopian gender equality.  Mrs. Zinn offers Lily the chance to go to ancient Crete with her for a few weeks,  and Lily accepts.  Having an experienced adult guid...
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The Time Museum, Vol. 2, by Matthew Loux for Timeslip Tuesday

Delia and her cohort of kids training at the Time Museum to journey across the ages are back in another adventure-- The Time Museum, Vol. 2 , by Matthew Loux (First Second, June 2019).  This graphic novel has all the brightly illustrated fun and excitement of the first volume ( my review ), and even more danger and suspense. Delia and the other kids are getting ready for their next time travel mission, with the help of none other than Richard Nixon.  Nixon is a surprisingly capable instructor, and the tips and tricks he provides during training come in very useful indeed when things start going wrong.  Their mission sounded straightforward--travel back to 18th century Versailles to patch up French/US diplomatic relations, but it quickly becomes complicated by a temporal loop that brings future versions of themselves back in time too.  And then things become very strange indeed when all of them travel to a dystopian future, where an old enemy awaits.... I have to conf...
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