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Recently, I read two middle grade books back to back which rekindled my excitement of the genre. Both felt like fresh new creative stories – different from anything I’ve read before. Middle grade has only just started fluorishing in the past 10 years. There are so many diverse stories waiting to be told! And I don’t even mean diverse in terms of “the characters have different identities”! I mean it […]
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Books Read As August has ended, so too has my participation in Bit About Books Summer Reading Challenge. Here are the books I selected for the challenge (checkmark = book read): I ended up not getting to my picks for fantasy & scifi and diveristy & multicultural – which would typically be my most read categories, if you look at my middle grade reading for an entire year! But, almost […]
I mentioned Bit About Books’ Summer Reading Challenge in my “I Can’t Believe…” post earlier this month. Kathie and Laurie have created twelve reading trails exploring different themes/genres of middle grade books. Check out their original post for details and books suggestions for each trail. They have suggested various ways one might hike through titles: I’ve decided to aim for “scout the trails”, but no one will be surprised if […]
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Taking Up Spaceby Alyson GerberSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: May 2021Publisher: Scholastic IncLength: 272 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: +9Representation: Protagonist develops disordered eating Summary 💬 Sarah loves basketball more than anything. Crushing it on the court makes her feel like she matters. And it’s the only thing that helps her ignore how much it hurts when her mom forgets to feed her. But lately Sarah can’t even play basketball right. She’s slower now and missing shots she […]
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Here are a couple more reviews that have been languishing in drafts for almost a year. Both of these were Cybils 2021 finalists. My memory’s falling short here, so these are mostly point form reviews based on the notes I took while reading. I wasn’t even sure these were worth posting but… they’re something. Onto another short pair of reviews! Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdomby Sangu MandannaSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: July 2021Publisher: Viking Books (PRH)Length: 352 […]