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Review of the Day: A Scar Like a River by Lisa Graff
Sometimes an author just works themselves up to the book of a lifetime and you are lucky enough to watch that happen in real time. That’s pretty much what we have here. The kids that get to read this book for the first time are lucky too.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Middle Grade Fiction
Our penultimate post!! These are the books that will worm their ways into the crannies and crevices of your children's gray matter, affecting their thoughts, their brains, their lives. If you're comfortable with that, read on.
Grief and Humor by Turns: A Talk with Joanne Levy About All the Things We Found
Grief and humor mixing and melding in middle grade is a delicate thing to establish. We talk with author Joanne Levy on how to make this very secret sauce.
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Review of the Day: The Reel Wish by Yamile Saied Méndez
Un-put-downable. A little more complex than its cover implies, this is a title to hand to that kid that always has to be the best, even if it kills them.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Middle Grade Novels
Come and enjoy this eclectic collection of some of the most memorable fiction for older readers out in 2024.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Oo. The penultimate list! We've had a fun ride but it's almost over. So today, enjoy books for older child readers. Tomorrow? Picture Books!
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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2021 Middle Grade Novels
Let's talk about the great middle grade novels of 2021 a little early this year! A collected list of some of the best books my librarians and I have seen.
31 Days, 31 Lists: Great Middle Grade Novels of 2020
The penultimate list. Maybe, with lists like this one, we can all try to end 2020 on a slightly less terrible note.
31 Days, 31 Lists: 2019 Middle Grade Novels
Consider this just a sampling of titles that I found particularly toothsome in 2019. You will miss some of your favorites, no doubt, but these are the books that truly made my little heart sing.
Review of the Day: Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo
Louisiana’s Way Home By Kate DiCamillo Candlewick Press ISBN: 978-0-7636-9463-0 $16.99 Ages 9-12 On shelves October 2nd There once was a book called Raymie Nightingale. Not a big flashy book with glitter on the cover and fonts that look like escaped balloon animals. Just a quiet book set in the late 1970s in Florida, patiently […]
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