Jennifer Castle writes because she’s always written and says she’s honored to be the author of American Girl’s Girl of the Year Blaire.
Browsing: ages 8 & up
This year, American Girl’s 2019 girl of the year is Blaire Wilson, a creative girl growing up on her family’s sustainable farm and B&B in upstate New York.
Once I settled in with Allison Rushby’s writing, The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery moved quickly and played out in unexpected ways.
Journey of the Pale Bear author Susan Fletcher has always loved words—playing with them, their meanings and their sounds.
Dan Richards’ quick-paced middle-grade novel, Stu Truly, thrusts readers straight into the fascinating world of teenage boys.
White House photographer Amanda Lucidon gives young readers an inside look at what life was like for First Lady Michell Obama in Reach Higher.
Squint, by Chad Morris and Shelly Brown explores how passion for something can sustain a person through great challenges.
Jennifer A. Nielsen’s latest middle-grade novel, Resistance, is an intense World War II read full of tension and action.
Patricia Cleveland-Peck’s The Secrets of Tutankhamun is exactly the type of book I would have loved as a child and love now as an adult.
While Melissa Sarno’s Just Under the Clouds doesn’t make my Top 10 MG books of this year, it certainly is one of the stronger novels I’ve read this year.