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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Middle Grade Fiction
Today, I celebrate both the books that I loved and the books that my fellow, trusted librarians loved. It's not complete, but it is reliable.
Review of the Day: Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes, ill. Karlene Harvey
With more oomph and spit than a little book of this sort could possibly contain, Maggie represents the kind of slambang, fantastic personality you find only once in a blue moon. You’re not going to want to miss this one.
Review of the Day: The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
If you think the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, and Brooklyn at that same time makes for an awkward tri-narrative, you are wrong. And if you also think that it would be highly difficult to weave three such perspectives together, there you are correct, but it can be done. The Lost Year proves as much.
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Review of the Day: Jawbreaker by Christina Wyman
I dare you to read even two chapters and not be engulfed in the narrative. Smart and savvy, Jawbreaker is the novel you wish you had read as a kid and are grateful that kids get to read today.
Review of the Day: The Carrefour Curse by Dianne K. Salerni
Honestly, the book starts with someone vomiting frogs and only picks up from there. I don’t know what more you could want.
Review of the Day: The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett
Sarah Everett wrestles with an outsized and ambitious bit of plotting, all the while keeping her cards close to her chest. Here’s some advice: Hand this to kids that like their books with a bit of a twist. And do NOT skip to the ending and read that first.
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Review of the Day: Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
This is for the kid who likes their humor to be complicated, their writing to be scintillating, and to never, ever, know what an author is going to do next.
Review of the Day: The Eyes and the Impossible by Dave Eggers, ill. Shawn Harris
Though you may not be the biggest fan of books populated by furry woodland creatures, read The Eyes and the Impossible and you will find a thoroughly well-written, occasionally touching, funny, strange little book that sticks both its landing and in your memory. It might even turn you around on the whole animal fiction thing.
Review of the Day: Hands by Torrey Maldonado
Torrey taps into a kind of writing we've been in dire need of for a very long time. And with his authentic voice and whole heaping helpfuls of heart, his latest book Hands is one that your kids are NOT going to want to miss.
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