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!
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!
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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