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Tag: Middle Grade

June 21, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Sometimes a Monster is Just a Monster, Sometimes it’s More: Anxiety and Middle Grade Horror, a guest post by Lora Senf

Growing up with undiagnosed and untreated anxiety—let’s call it what it is, mental illness—was what led me to write the main character in my debut middle grade horror, The Clackity, as a young girl with anxiety

June 9, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Power and Choice: How a Pandemic-Written Adventure Can Model the Future, a guest post by Diane Magras

Kids being brave, creating change, determined to make this world a better one: That’s really what my book is about. I like that all the lockdown despair ended up in such a hopeful place.

June 3, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Doing the Impossible: Re-Envisioning Story Through Revision, a guest post by Shawn K. Stout

It took eleven re-envisionings over six years, but now, holding the finished book in my hands, I know that what feels impossible often isn’t.

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Book Review: Let the Monster Out by Chad Lucas

May 18, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

It might be the "creepy" factor that will interest kids in picking up this book, but it's the layers to the story and the complicated, authentic characters that will keep kids reading.

Book Review: The Science of Being Angry by Nicole Melleby

May 17, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I can't think of any book that really captures what it's like to deal with that anger inside of you and the fallout from it like this one does.

2022 Middle Grade Books to Have on Your Radar, Part Two

May 16, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

Let's look at some exciting middle grade books coming out in the second half of 2022!

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It’s a Small World! A guest post by Betty Culley

May 10, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

In THE NATURAL GENIUS OF ANTS, Harvard Corson has a huge task in front of him and only a short summer to accomplish it—trying to get his doctor father to forgive himself for a very big mistake that cost a baby her life. Not only that, but Harvard also needs to keep an ant colony alive!

Why Learning History Was So Much Easier in China, a guest post by Xiran Jay Zhao

May 9, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I owe a lot of my knowledge and fascination with history to the passion with which Chinese culture honors its past and the skills of storytellers in passing this heritage to new generations, and I hope to bring some of this passion to a young Western audience.

Never Too Much, a guest post by Catherine Bakewell

May 6, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

When I was in middle school, the word “nerd” was thrown around a lot, a word that then meant someone who was too much, who loved something too deeply. This passion was a delicate flame within me when I was 14, a little older than Elissa, the protagonist of my novel, We Are the Song.

Series are the “Comfort Food” of the Book World, a guest post by Erin Soderberg Downing

May 2, 2022 by Amanda MacGregor

I like to think series books are the “Comfort Tacos” of the book world; they pull you in and swaddle you up in a world where you know you belong, know you feel comfortable, and where everything is just a little easier.

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