MORE 'MIDDLE-GRADE-FICTION' POSTS
What is middle grade fiction and why is it important? Let's talk collection development and middle grade fiction.
I’ve been “Dear Carol” at Girls’ Life since the magazine’s first issue in April of 1994. For 23 years, I’ve been hearing from tween and teen girls. What have I learned? 1. School Can Be A Refuge When I was 28 and Girltalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You was first published, I […]
Author Barry Lyga has a new middle grade novel, The Secret Sea, coming out August 23. It is a complex and fascinating story of three friends who travel to a parallel universe. From the publisher: Twelve-year-old Zak Killian is hearing a voice. Could it be a guardian angel? A ghost? No, that’s crazy. But sometimes […]
#LastListEgmont: Jaguar Stones, Pirate Adventures, and a New Publisher, Matt Myklusch and Jon and Pamela Voelkel interview
Middle Grade, Middle Grade Fiction, new books, Uncategorized
|Matt Myklusch and Jon and Pamela Voelkel first met on a panel at the Texas Library Association. At the time, the Voelkels were promoting their action-packed Jaguar Stones series, and Matt was doing the same for his superhero adventure books, The Jack Blank Adventures. Now, a couple years later, with Jon and Pamela Voelkel releasing […]
I am honestly delighted with this second entry in the distinctly well written Lockwood & Co. series by Stroud. It has so many elements to recommend it to my middle school readers! In case you missed it, I recently reviewed the first book in the series, The Screaming Staircase. When I opened the library’s latest book shipment, […]
In My Mailbox: Looking for Middle Grade Fiction that Deals with Sexual Violence
#SVYALit, #SVYALit Project, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Jacqueline Woodson, Lena, Middle Grade, Middle Grade Fiction, Sexual Violence
|I often get emails and comments in regards to The #SVYALit Project asking about Middle Grade titles that deal with sexual abuse and violence of pre-teen kids. And each time I get a question, I go looking for some great recommendations. I have even tried to ask author and Middle Grade champion Anne Ursu and […]
TPiB: STEM Projects with Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab
High-Voltage Danger Lab, Middle Grade Fiction, Mysteries, Nick and Tesla, Quirk Books, STEM Education, TPIB
|Just as I was thinking to myself, “self, you need more sciency things in your programming”, Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab by “Science Bob” Plugfelder and Steve Hockensmith showed up on my doorstep. It was like a gift from the STEM fairies. And the Tween spawn of me saw it and immediately grabbed it […]
Scholastic Book Fair: September
Collection Development, Middle Grade Fiction, Reader's Advisory, Scholastic
|Now that school is back in session, it’s time to resume our Scholastic Book Fair here on TLT. Here are five new titles from Scholastic. Seeing Red by Kathryn Erskine “So everyone just sits there and says nothing? How’s anything ever going to get better?” Red Porter’s daddy has died. While Red and his mom […]
MG Book Review: Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown
Book Reviews, Graphic Novels, Jeffrey Brown, Middle Grade Fiction, Star Wars Jedi Academy, Star Wars Reads Day
|So much fun! As a casual enthusiast of Star Wars, I was fully engaged by this story of Roan, a young boy from Tatooine (sound familiar?) Roan comes from a family with a long history of serving as Star Pilots. His Father and Grandfather are Star Pilots, and his older brother is attending Pilot Academy. […]
Book Review – A Summer of Sundays by Lindsay Eland
A Summer of Sundays, Egmont USA, Lindsay Eland, Middle Grade Fiction
|Sunday Fowler is the middlest of middle children from Middlesburg, Middletonia, Middletown. At 11 (almost 12!) she is too young for her two older sisters, and too old for her three younger brothers. Everyone in her family either dismisses her, forgets her, or takes her for granted. In fact, in the first couple of chapters, […]
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