Every six years the calendar aligns and I can shout: I’m celebrating my birthday on a Marvelous Middle Grade Monday! I stepped away from the party long enough to write a review of HOW I BECAME A SPY by Deborah Hopkinson.  Click the cake slice to reach my post and the arrow for each of the reviews and features below.

Joanne R. Fritz at My Brain on Books has a review of FAR AWAY by Lisa Graff.

June McCrary Jacobs at ‘Reading, Writing, & Stitch-Metic’ features The Capture of Black Bart: Gentleman Bandit of the Old West, a biography of Black Bart.

Sue Heavenrich at Sally’s Bookshelf reviews COGHEART by Peter Bunzl.

Mark Baker at Carstairs Considers is back this week with a review of Lion Down by Stuart Gibbs.

Beth Mitchell at Imaginary Friends reviews The Doughnut King by Jessie Janowitz

Patricia Tilton at Children’s Books Heal reviews Dust Storm (Survivor Diaries #4) by Terry Lynn Johnson about two students lost in a desert.

Maria Antonia at Of Books, Photography, and Tea has a review of The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden.

Author Stephanie Robinson at Fairday’s Blog is featuring the book THE EMERALD ATLAS by John Stephens. 

Janet Smart at Creative Writing In The Blackberry Patch reviews The Last Treasure by Janet S. Anderson.

Dorine White at The Write Path has an interview with Lois Wickstrom author of Carrie’s Flight.

Rosi Hollinbeck reviews and has a GIVEAWAY of TELL ME EARTH AND SKY. Rosi also has some not to be missed links for her writing friends.

Karen Yingling at Ms. Yingling Reads has another informative MMGM post. Be sure to check out today’s feature and all of her reviews the past week.