Take Five: 2024 LGBTQIA+ Middle Grade Novels
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Take Five: Wintery Middle Grade Fiction
As always, the one thing that makes life tolerable is escaping into fiction. And for all my hatred of actual winter, I love books set in winter. Here are a few you might like, too!
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