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Book Review: Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
| Book Reviews, Laura Marx Fitzgerald, MG Lit, Under the Egg
Many families have their own unique quirky traditions. In my grandparents house, it was a glass chicken candy dish. Every time we visited we would throw down our bags and run to get a piece of candy from the chicken. When my grandparents passed away, my aunt went on a quest and made sure that […]
Middle Grade Mondays: 5 Things I Love Right Now, from a Tween
| Apps, Dork Diaries, Flappy Bird, MG Lit, Middle Grade Monday, Minecraft, Technology, The Land of Stories, Wonderstruck
Robin broke her arm, in two places!, so we are punting for this week’s Middle Grade Monday. So I gave my Tween homework: write a post about the things that you love right now. I added some notes because she apparently is a minimalist. But it is always good to know what your patrons are […]
Going Back in Time: Middle School-Style – Booktalks by Kearsten LaBrozzi
| Booktalks, Collection Development, Historical fiction, MG Lit, Reader's Advisory
This month, my middle school book club and I talked historical fiction, naming titles, authors, and six words or phrases to describe the books. As we shared our past month’s reads, two themes featured prominently: required reading is not always their favorite (e.g., My Brother Sam is Dead and Hound of the Baskervilles) and yes, […]
I always make sure and come home from ALA with books for Thing 1 and Thing 2, kind of my penance for going away for several days. So this year I waited in line and got books signed by Vordak, a dastardly super villain. I will only stand in line for Jonathan Maberry and my […]
MG Book Review: Frosting and Friendship by Lisa Schroeder (reviewed by Tween reviewer Ceci)
| Book Reviews, Frosting and Friendship, Lisa Schroeder, MG Lit
A review of Frosting and Friendship by Lisa Schroeder from tween reviewer Ceci But first how I got an advanced reader copy of this book. My class had an assignment to write a letter to a famous person. I chose Lisa Schroeder because I loved her books, It’s Raining Cupcakes and Sprinkles and Secrets. I […]
Beginning tomorrow, April 15th, we are celebrating and discussing Reluctant Readers this week with Orca Books. Tomorrow you can also begin entering a giveaway for a mini collection of books from Orca Books. I grew up in a family of readers. I have always read. And for 20 years now I have been a teen […]
In case you missed it, YA for NJ is a charity auction going on NOW through December 6 to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy. Items are being auctioned off via ebay. There are a TON of signed books and ARCs, with at last count over 170 YA and MG authors participating. Follow YAforNJ on […]
Top 10: Middle Grade Fiction, Graphically Speaking
| Artemis Fowl, Babymouse, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries, Graphic Novels, Lunch Lady, MG Lit, Middle Grade Fiction, Nerds, Origami Yoda, Reader's Advisory, Top 10s, Tween
If your job description is anything close to what I’ve seen, you get to fill in the blanks for the nebulous population known as the “tweens”- that 10-12 year old scary time where they can’t quite fit in with the teenagers because they’re “little” kids but they want to DO everything the teenagers do, from […]
For today’s Top 10, I thought we would dicuss MG lit (middle grade literature, for tweens ages 10-12ish – sometimes defined as ages 8-12ish). So let’s ask a tween. I conveniently happen to have one sitting around that I gave birth to. And she loves to read. So here’ what she is reading, and loving. […]
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