Kate DiCamillo’s latest literary offering, Ferris, is about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother and growing up, and it’s delightful.
Browsing: Middle Grade
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson, by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall, is the story of how a young naturalist grows up to change the world.
Uprising, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, follows a young Polish girl as she participates in the Warsaw city uprising during WWII.
A street dog and a young girl with abandonment issues help each other heal in Millie, Book 3 in McCall Hoyle’s Best Friends Dog Tales series.
Learn about the organisms that make animals ill in Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs, by Heather L. Montgomery and Lindsey Leigh.
A girl learns about her grandmother’s experience of the Partition of India and Pakistan in The Partition Project, by Saadia Faruqi
A girl’s goal to write a fantasy novel triggers writer’s block and anxiety in Unstuck, a new middle-grade book by Barbara Dee.
Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith introduces readers to wonders beyond our planet in Universal Guide to the Night Sky.
A girl becomes the guardian of Ali Baba’s legendary treasure in Daughters of the Lamp, the first book in a new fantasy series by Nedda Lewers.
A girl discovers mythical ancestors while attending a boarding school for the descendants of Greek monsters in Medusa, by Katherine Marsh.