Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your Christmas library. The following were published in 2019.
Browsing: Middle Grade
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. The following are middle-grade books published in and reviewed in 2019.
Brandon Mull’s third book in the Dragonwatch series, Master of the Phantom Isle, takes up where Wrath of the Dragon King left off.
What do you do when your parents’ expectations aren’t something you can live up to? Sarah Jean Horwitz explores that idea in The Dark Lord Clementine.
Cinderella must be the most reimagined fairytale in history. Julie Wright’s Glass Slippers, Ever After, and Me is a fresh take on the classic.
Kyla May’s Diary of a Pug: Pug Blasts Off has opened a new world of books for me, and more importantly, my 5-year-old daughter.
In Weird Little Robots, written by Carolyn Crimi and illustrated by Corinna Luyken, friendship is forged through robots, and a little magic.
Writing for young readers is a tremendous honor, says Nicole Valentine, author of the middle grade novel A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity.
There once was a girl who was struck by lightning, and the impossible became possible. That’s the premise behind Two Girls, a Clock, and a Crooked House.
There are loads of excellent early chapter books as of late. Among them is the first in the new At the Heels of History series, Filigree’s Midnight Ride.