Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist, by Sylvia Acevedo, is a fascinating autobiography for middle-graders.
Browsing: middle grade
Once I settled in with Allison Rushby’s writing, The Turnkey of Highgate Cemetery moved quickly and played out in unexpected ways.
If you’re looking for a lovely short middle-grade read with a lot of heart, Kate DiCamillo’s Louisiana’s Way Home is a great choice.
Dan Richards’ quick-paced middle-grade novel, Stu Truly, thrusts readers straight into the fascinating world of teenage boys.
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.
Donna Gephart explores how friendship adds balance in tweens’ lives in her latest novel for middle-graders, In Your Shoes.
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.
Writing means something different to everyone. For Ginger Johnson, author of The Splintered Light, it’s a form of therapy.