MORE 'MIDDLE-GRADE-MONDAY' POSTS
Here are some of the new titles coming out this spring that I am eagerly anticipating: Inherit Midnight by Kate Kaye Myers Billed as twisty, turny, non-stop action fun by reviewers, this looks to be right in my patrons’ sweet spot. Here is the publisher’s summary: Avery is the black sheep of the wealthy VanDemere […]
As a school librarian, I have the somewhat enviable position of having a captive audience. I see language arts classes on a regular basis for circulation as well as classes I work on research projects with, and I can get to know some of the students quite well. At my particular school, there are around […]
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, […]
For personal reasons, I don’t support telling children that Santa (or the Tooth Fairy or Easter Bunny) is real.* On the other hand, a good story, whether based on historical narrative or cultural mythology, is a good story. By the time kids are in the ‘middle grades’ years they are generally aware that Santa is […]
I struggle with finding books for my little friend Aaron. My good friends qualified as foster parents a few years ago and were given care of one of the sweetest, most delightfully loving babies I have ever had the opportunity to know. As time went on and it became apparent that Aaron’s family was not […]
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I made it almost to the exact middle point of The Thickety: a Path Begins, by J.A. White (I stopped at chapter 14, for those of you who have read it.) This book showed up a while ago as part of our subscription from Junior Library Guild. I put it out […]
I usually download multiple audio titles from my public library before I take a road trip, because I am an effective public library user. And also I find they keep me from getting sleepy and make the trip seem about half as long. For this trip (to my Mom’s house, for Thanksgiving) I ended up […]
So it turns out that it is difficult to find YA authors whose last name starts with ‘U’ – go figure. Karen asked me to cheat and do a middle grade author for our ‘U’ day for YA A to Z, because she knows how much I love Anne Ursu. You should love her, too. […]
This year, my library is promoting the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award competition. You can find out more about it here, but it is essentially a list of ten student nominated titles. Students who want to participate in the voting process in the spring need to have read at least four of the ten […]
I’ve been working with my sixth grade students on Boolean searching. It’s not as difficult as it sounds. Well, not once we get past the giggles that the name ‘Boolean’ elicits from them. Maybe I chose to do this too close to Halloween? In any case, it’s a dual purpose effort. Firstly I want them […]
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