Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating today!  I hope you have lots of books waiting for you under the tree (many of our presents are enticingly book shaped) and lots of cookies (or whatever you like to eat) to go with them (but carefully; I was already careless with a book I'm giving and wanted to read first, and left it next to a cup of tea, which a kitten investigated, and now that book has a sort of blurry kitten tea paw print on it...fortunatly not a valuable first edition!)

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The last middle grade fantasy and science fiction round-up of 2019!

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Not surprisingly, I didn't find many reviews from this past week (there was nothing from me, for instance, because I was too busy playing reindeer games and eating cookies....).  But since I'm back home, and ready to commit to blogging more regularly, I didn't want this Sunday to pass without a round-up...As ever, let me know if I missed your post! The Reviews The 12th Candle, by Kim Tomsic, at Ms. Yingling Reads The Casket of Time, by Andri Snaer Magnason, at Bookworm for Kids The Forbidden Expediction (Polar Bear Explorers Club #2), by Alex Bell, at Pages Unbound The Girl Who Speaks Bear, by Sophie Anderson, at The Anxious Bookworm If We Were Giants, by Dave Matthews, at Say What? Minecraft: the End, by Catherynne M. Valente, at SFF Book Reviews Scary Stories for Young Foxes, by Christian McKay Heidicker, at Jean Little Library The Storm Keeper's Island, by Catherine Doyle, at A Kids Book a Day Tunnel of Bones, by Victoria Schwab, at Bookishly Brittknee (audiobook ...
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The Edge of Forever, by Melissa E. Hurst

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The Edge of Forever , by Melissa E. Hurst (Sky Pony, 2015), is a YA time-travel mystery, with a nascent romance, lots of secrets, nefarious goings on, and murder.   In the future it's been discovered that some people possess a gene that allows them to time travel, and these people have been taken under the control of the government and trained as historical observers.  In 2146, 17-year-old Bridger is one of these being trained.  On a routine  school-time travel training trip, things go wrong-- he gets distracted by seeing his dead father in the crowd, and partly because of that, his partner is killed.  Now Bridger's determined to find out what his dad was doing at that time and place, and he finds that his father was trying to break the most fundamental rule of time travel.  He was trying to prevent the murder of a 16 year old American girl, Alora. Back in 2013, Alora has started having blackouts, each time waking up in a different place.  That's not t...
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The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away, by Ronald L. Smith (review and interview)

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I first had the pleasure of meeting Ronald L. Smith at Kidlitcon back in 2015 (PSA--come to Kidlitcon 2020 in Ann Arbor next March!).  His first middle grade book, Hoodoo, a tale of supernatural horror in the south, had just been published, and I enjoyed it very much ( my review ).  I likewise enjoyed The Mesmerist (2017), about kids fighting evil in 19th century London ( my review ).  I never reviewed Black Panther: the Young Prince (2018)….someday I will.  So in any event, I was very excited about his most recent book, The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away (Clarion Books, February 2019). This is the story of an air force kid, Simon, son of a black mom and a white dad, who's obsessed with aliens.  He's convinced owl-like aliens have arrived, watching and experimenting on humans.  His family has no time or patience for aliens, so Simon is alone with his fears of the Grays, as he calls them.  When something very strange happens on a camping trip with hi...
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