The following are just some of the middle-grade books that came out in April that I was unable to review, but are worth checking out.
Browsing: ages 8 & up
The following are just some of the middle-grade books that came out in March that I was unable to review, but are worth checking out.
A girl finds herself at the center of a magical war in Jenna Yoon’s debut middle-grade fantasy, Lia Park and the Missing Jewel.
The stories of five young people living through World War I are weaved together in Jennifer A. Nielsen’s fantastic Lines of Courage.
A boy and his family learn about grief and forgiveness while caring for an ant farm in Betty Culley’s The Natural Genius of Ants.
A girl sets out to do her part following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in L.M. Elliott’s Louisa June and the Nazis in the Waves.
Tae Keller’s Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone follows a girl who believes in aliens and the kids who alienate her for those beliefs.
Lorelei Savaryn reimagines The Secret Garden as magical realism in her new middle-grade novel, The Edge of In Between.
A cast of fairy tale characters collide in Once Upon Another Time, the first book in a new trilogy from author James Riley.
April is World Autism Month. The following middle-grade books celebrate neurodiversity and differences both through nonfiction and fiction.