A pair of friends bite off more than they can chew in Margaret Finnegan’s new novel for middle graders, We Could Be Heroes.
Browsing: Middle Grade
Linda Sue Park’s middle-grade novel Prairie Lotus is a unique Asian-American story that will call to fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I’m always on the lookout for middle-grade novels with broad appeal. Ally Carter’s Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor fits the bill.
Family dynamics take center stage in Hena Khan’s More to the Story, which was was inspired by Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
A girl tries to save her family farm while simultaneously dealing with the loss of her father in The Wish and the Peacock, by Wendy S. Swore
I wasn’t initially sure how I’d feel about Danielle Svetcov’s Parked, but wow, was I captivated. It’s the story of two intersecting characters.
Lindsey Duga’s The Haunting takes me right back to my childhood, curled under a blanket with a flashlight and squeezing a stuffed animal.
Lyla Lee’s new series features a Korean-American girl who wants to fit in and be herself. The first book is Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business.
If you have not read the first two books in Frank L. Cole’s Potions Masters trilogy, stop here. Go read them before reading The Seeking Serum.
The power of music to hurt and to heal is explored in the upper-middle grade novel Broken Strings, by Eric Walters and Kathy Kacer.