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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 (11/3/19)

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

The Reviews

The Thousand Year Old Boy, by Ross Welford, at Ms. Yingling Reads

The Black Cauldron, by Lloyd Alexander, at Say What?

The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup, at Say What?

Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Abby the Librarian

Doll Bones, by Holly Black, at A Garden of Books (audiobook review)

The Double Helix (Explorer Academy #3), by Trudy Truit, at Always in the Middle

The Dragon Thief, by Zetta Elliott, at Middle Grade Book Village and Charlotte's Library

The Dragon Warrior, by Katie Zhao, at Hit or Miss Books

Dragons in a Bag, by Zetta Elliott, at Middle Grade Book Village

The Fire Keeper, by J.C. Cervantes, at Feed Your Fiction Additiction

The Ghouls of Howlfair, by Nick Tomlinson, at Book Craic

Grimworld, by Avery Moray, at Jazzy Book Reviews

The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Mom Read It

The Impossible Boy, by Ben Brooks, at Book Craic

Music Boxes, by Tonja Drecker, at Defining Ways

The Mystwick School of Musicaft, by Jessica Khoury, at The Write Path

The Other Side of the Wall, by Amy Ephron, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books

The Princess Who Flew With Dragons, by Stephanie Burgis, at Foreward Book Reviews

Rose Coffin, by M.P. Kozlowsky, at Charlotte's Library

Saving Fable (Talespinners), by Scott Reintgen, at Ms. Yingling Reads

Titans, by Kate O'Hearn, at The Never Ending TBR

The Tunnel of Bones, by Victoria Schwab, at Twirling Book Princess, The Zen Leaf and Imaginary Friends

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at Laughing Place

also seven new ones with blurbs by me at the B and N Kids Blog

Authors and Interviews

Thomas Taylor (Malamander) at Nerdy Book Club

Kara LaRue (Rise of the Zombert) at Middle Grade Book Village

K.G. Campbell (A Small Zombie Problem) and Laura Ellen Anderson (Amerlia Fang and the Barbaric Ball) at B and N Kids Blog

Other Good Stuff

A children's author and her son share their favorite middle grade fantasy fiction that features children of color, at embracerace blog

This year's Witch Week is off and running!

Publishers Weekly has announced its list of best kids books of 2019; not as much mg sff as I'd like, but still some good ones!

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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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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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