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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 sci fi from around the blogs (2/2/20)

Welcome to this week's round-up of mg fantasy and sci fi!  Please let me know if I missed your post.

The Reviews

All the Impossible Things, by Lindsay Lackey, at Imaginary Friends

Cryptozoology for Beginners, by Euphemia Whitmore and Matt Harry, at Kid Lit Reviews

The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Horwitz, at Sonderbooks

The Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, at Sloth Reads

Frostheart, by Jaime Littler, at Arkham Reviews

The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted, by Conor Greenan, at Say What?

Interview with a Robot, by Lee Bacon, at Hidden In Pages (audiobook review)

Midnight on Strange Street, by K.E. Ormsbee, at Eli to the nth, J.R.'s Book Reviews, and Ms. Yingling Reads (and many more--full list at Eli to the nth above)

A Mixture of Mischief (Love Sugar Magic #3) at alibrarymama and Charlotte's Library (and many more--see either of the links above for the full blog tour)

Monster Slayer, by Brian Patten and Chris Riddell, at Book Murmuration

The Mulberry Tree, by Allison Rushby, at Rosi Hollinbeck

Ogre Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine, at Susan Uhlig

The Reckless Rescue (Explorers #2), by Adrienne Kress, at Pages Unboud

The Revenge of the Wizard's Ghost (Johnny Dixon #4), by John Bellairs, at Say What?

Sauerkraut, by Kelly Jones, at Youth Services Book Review 

Snow White and the Seven Robots, by Stewart Ross, at Twirling Book Princess

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, by Kwame Mbalia, at A Dance With Books

What We Found in the Corn Maze and How It Saved a Dragon, by Henry Clark, at TRB Next

Where the World Turns Wild, by Nicola Penfold, at Book Lover Jo

Authors and Interviews

Anna Meriano (Love Sugar Magic series) at Nerdy Book Club

Kaela Noel (Coo) at Middle Grade Book Village

Other Good Stuff

A loving look at Lloyd Alexendar's Chronicles of Prydain at Tor

The latest famous singer/song writer to pen a middle grade fantasy is Dave Matthews; If We Were Giants comes out March 3.

SCBWI announces the new  A. Orr grant for writers of middle grade sci fi and fantasy

As I predicted, there was no Newbery Award medal for mg sci fi; however, there were several mg sci fi/fantasy books recognized.  Congratulations to:

Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker (Newbery Honor)

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Coretta Scott King Author Honor)

Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez (Pura Belpré Award Author winner)

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This week's round-up of middle grade science fiction and fantasy from around the blogs (10/13/19)

Here's what I found in my blog reading this week; please let me know if I missed your post! The Reviews The Bootlace Magician (Cicus Mirandus #2), by Cassie Beasley, at Randomly Reading The Boy Who Was Fire, by Marcus Kahle McCann, at The Children's Book Review City of Bones, by Victoria Schwab, at Pages Unbound The Dark Lord Clementine, by Sarah Jean Howitz, at Sally's Bookshelf Dead Voices, by Katherine Arden, at Charlotte's Library Dragon Pearl, by Yoon Ha Lee, at Imaginary Friends The Dragon Warrior, by Katie Zhao, at Log Cabin Library , Forever and Everly , and Lost In Storyland Ember: the Secret Book, by Jamie Smart, at Mr Ripleys Enchanted Books The Hippo at the End of the Hall, by Helen Cooper, at Charlotte's Library Homerooms and Hall Passes, by Tom O'Donnell, at Ms. Yingling Reads The International Yeti Collective, by Paul Mason, at Book Craic The Little Broomstick, by Mary Stewart, at Fantasy Literature Mightier than the Sword, by Drew Callander and ...
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Stolen Time, by Danielle Rollins, for Timeslip Tuesday

If you are in the mood for a real page turner of a YA time travel story (it only took me two and a bit hours to read 400 pages), with lots of twists, lots of great characters, and lots of action, look no further than Stolen Time, by Danielle Rollins (Febraury 2019, HarperTeen). It begins in Seattle, in 1913, when Dorothy runs away from the marriage her con-artist mother has inveigled her into.  Her flight leads her to a time traveler, from New Seattle, 2077.  Ash is on a mission to find his mentor, the professor who figured out time travel technology, and who disappeared. leaving his team of young people gathered from different times without guidance and purpose.  Dorothy stows away in his ship, and Ash inadvertently takes her back to his own time, to a city devastated by earthquakes and inundated by tidal waves. It's a city living in fear of a vicious gang, whose co-leader, Roman, was once one of the professor's brightest students.  But Roman wanted time travel to ...
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The Clockwork Scarab

By: Coleen Gleason Two girls are dead and one has gone missing in 1889 London.  The only clues are an Egyptian Scarabs that were found at both the murder scenes. Well, not exactly murder, both deaths were made out to look like suicides.  Mina Holmes, as in Sherlock Holmes's niece, and Evaline Stoker, sister of Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), are called to a secret meeting at the British Museum by Irene Adler.  Stoker and Holmes are called to investigate these series of murders by the Princess of Wales.  Along the way Holmes makes friends with Dylan Eckhert.  Dylan was at the museum looking at the statue of Sekhmet,  and Egyptian  Goddess, when he touched a scarab on the statue.  Next thing he knew, he woke up in 1889 London.  His problems come from the fact that he's from 2016 London.  Miss Holmes also has a rivalry with Lieutenant Grayling, of Scotland Yard.  Miss Stoker runs into a mysterious pick-pocket, Pix (meaning Pixie), a c...
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