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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 fantasy and science fiction from around the blog (10/6/19)

Bloglovin utterly failed me this week, so I doubtless missed many posts.  So let me know if I missed yours, and I'll add it!

The Reviews

Cog, by Greg Van Eekhout, at Charlotte's Library

Creep, by Eireann Corrigan, at Not Acting My Age

The Double Helix (Explorer Academy #3), by Trudi Truit, at Mom Read It

The Fairfield Curse, by Kaleb Nation, at Say What?

The Last Dragon (The Revenge of Magic #2), by James Riley, at The Write Path

Lexi Magill and the Teleportation Tournament, by Kim Long, at A Garden of Books

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages, by Trenton Lee Stewart, at Puss Reboots

A Royal Guide to Monster Slaying, by Kelley Armstrong, at Geo Librarian

Scourge: A Grim Doyle Adeventure, by David H. Burton, at Say What?

Small Spaces, by Katherine Arden, at A Dance with Books

The Storm Runner, by J. C. Cervantes, at A Backwards Story

A Tale of Magic, by Chris Colfer, at Ms. Yingling Reads

A Time Traveller's Theory of Relativity, by Nicole Valentine, at Charlotte's Library and Always in the Middle

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at Brain Mill Press Voices

Zombies are People Too, by Tom Greenwald, at Say What?

Other Good Stuff

Seven series recommendations, with an Australian slant, at Emma Louise Hughes

A gathering of spooky middle grade at Some the Wiser

The nominations for this year's Cybils Awards are open!  Here's what's been nominated in Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction so far, and here are a few eligible titles that are new this October that haven't ben nominated yet (this isn't a comprehensive list by any means, but a quick off the top of my head; I'll almost certainly be mentioning more eligible titles between now and when nominations close on Oct 15).  Anyone can nominate books first published between Oct 16 2018 and Oct 15 2019; you don't have to be in the US, or have a blog, or be a grown up (so get your kids to send love to their favorite books of the past year!)

Here's where you go to nominate.

Alien Superstar, by Lin Oliver and Henry Winkler
Cog, by Greg Van Eekhout
Tristan Strong Punches  a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalai
The Dragon Warrior, by Katie Zhao
Throwback, by Peter Lerangis
Ember and the Ice Dragons, by Heather Fawcett


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The Time Museum, Vol. 2, by Matthew Loux for Timeslip Tuesday

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