I can’t read and review all the books that come to me. These are some February mg books not featured on Cracking the Cover but still deserve your attention.
How do you cope with the loss of a parent? Willa and the Whale, by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown, explores grief and the healing power of hope.
Middle school dynamics take center stage in Gillian McDunn’s emotionally on-point middle-grade novel, The Queen Bee and Me.
A pair of friends bite off more than they can chew in Margaret Finnegan’s new novel for middle graders, We Could Be Heroes.
Linda Sue Park’s middle-grade novel Prairie Lotus is a unique Asian-American story that will call to fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I’m always on the lookout for middle-grade novels with broad appeal. Ally Carter’s Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor fits the bill.
Family dynamics take center stage in Hena Khan’s More to the Story, which was was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
A girl tries to save her family farm while simultaneously dealing with the loss of her father in The Wish and the Peacock, by Wendy S. Swore
I wasn’t initially sure how I’d feel about Danielle Svetcov’s Parked, but wow, was I captivated. It’s the story of two intersecting characters.
Lindsey Duga’s The Haunting takes me right back to my childhood, curled under a blanket with a flashlight and squeezing a stuffed animal.