••ALWAYS in the MIDDLE is where I have a review of SOME OF US ARE BRAVE by Saadia Faruqi.

••Susan Uhlig liked the historical novel WAR GAMES by Alan Gratz.

••Natalie Aguirre @ Literary Rambles has an interview with Seema Yasmin and a giveaway of her MG Maysoon Zayid, The Girl Who Can Can.

••Brenda @ Log Cabin Library shares a graphic novel:  Zicky: Wrath of the Rat King by Darin S. Cape, and a picture book for a blog tour that might have some crossover to younger kids: Katie’s Really Bad Day: A Story About Test Anxiety by Kathleen Jeffrey.

••Rebecca Douglass reviews Dusti Bowling’s Dust  and Holding on for Dear Life.

••Jenni Enzor is celebrating the birthday over the weekend of Charles Dickens with four Dickens-inspired middle-grade books. Books are: The Traitor’s Gate by Avi, The Great Trouble and The Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson, and The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson.

••Isabelle Knight reviews Greenglass House by Kate Milford, a cozy, wintry middle-grade book that is perfect to read when you’re snowed in! 

••Jennifer Rummel @ YA Book Nerd has CITY SPIES EUROPA, the newest novel in that series from James Ponti.

••Valinora Troy features a review of The Big Bad Wolf Murder by P.G.Bell.

••Carol Baldwin has an update on her Work in Progress, a historical MG.

••Karen Yingling at Mrs. Yingling Reads has a book to share every day. Check out Karen’s MMGM choice for today and all her reviews from this past week.