A few notes before the celebration begins… 1) The winner of Carter Roy’s two book BLOOD GUARD series is CINDY TRAN. You can check her review blog out at Cindy Reads A Lot. Congratulations! I’ll get those out to you this week.
2) Take a look at Author Kevin Gerard’s Kick Starter campaign for his fourth Diego Dragon’s book. Good luck with this, Kevin!
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With that complete, the time has come to celebrate my two years in Shannon Messenger’s Marvelous Middle Grade Monday! Yes, for 24 months I’ve been posting reviews, but it’s also my 3 year blogging anniversary! Thanks to all of you who stop by either once in a while or every week. I couldn’t keep this up without you.
Let’s kick off this celebration with a double giveaway. I have a stack of books for two separate lucky winners. One stack has six books with female protagonists and the other has six books with with male protagonists. All are like new, only once read. But that’s not all… each stack comes with its very own $15 Starbucks gift card! You’ll be the envy of everyone with your stash of books in one hand and favorite drink in the other.
FEMALE PROTAGONIST STACK (Three hardbacks and three paperbacks)
MALE PROTAGONIST STACK (Four hardbacks and two paperbacks)
So how do you enter??? It’s easy. Just state your favorite book(s) read since last summer (MG or otherwise). For each book you list, up to a maximum of five books, you will get an entry for each one. 
My faithful visitors are also getting bonus entries. For every 10 comments you’ve made on this blog from last August through this past Friday, I’ll throw in another entry.
On Sunday, August 30th at 5 PM EDT, I’ll throw all the names into this shiny wheel. The first name chosen will get their choice of stacks. The second name chosen will receive the remaining one.
Good Luck and thank you to Shannon for hosting and putting together the MMGM links each week!
Always in the Middle... 
Happy Anniversary and good luck to everyone who enters.
Thanks. I appreciate you stopping by from so far away!
Hi 🙂 SInce last summer the best books I have read are Treasure Island. Tom Sawyer. Heidi. Anne of Green Gables, and Out of Africa.
I have read a lot of other books besides classics but it’s hard to come across a good one.
Thanks 🙂
Great choices. Good luck in the drawing!
Congrats on your anniversary. I always enjoy seeing what you’re reading.
Thanks for being a faithful regular. Your blog is always so helpful in my writing pursuits.
I just discovered the Middle Grade Bloggers, and I am happy to say that I’ve merrily joined the group. It’s exciting to find people who are promoting my genre. Don’t know what it is about having a ten year old emotional approach to the world of words that sets us apart, but here we are. So grateful to be a part and to have found you. Thanks.
Maryt
Thanks for searching me out. Middle Grade books are rather addicting. So much fun to read, much harder to write, but both very fulfilling. You’ll find many great recommendations here and with other middle grade bloggers. I hope to see you again!
Thanks for the push, Greg. Happy anniversary!
And thank you for writing such great stories!
And you’ve done a marvelous job! I’m not entering your giveaway, but just wanted to stop by and say congratulations!
I appreciate that so much. Wishing you success in the coming months.
Congratulations on three years of blogging and two years with Middle Grade Monday. I always enjoy visiting reading your thoughtful reviews on Monday. I’ve read many MG books this year, including A Handful of Stars. And, I’m reading Lost in the Sun right now. Five favorites: Stella by Sarlight, Keeper of the Lost Cities: Everblaze, The Guardian Herd: Stormbound, Rain Reign, and The War That Saved My Life.
Great choices. Thanks for stopping by so many times this past year. You help me keep things moving forward. Good luck in the drawing. You have earned double digits entries!
Congrats on your two years in MMGM and three years blogging! I joined MMGM in November 2010 and started blogging the year before that. Hard to believe, really. Thanks for always stopping by my blog.
How generous of you to have a giveaway, but since I own quite a few of those books already, please let others win.
Thanks for stopping by so frequently. You are a real veteran of the blogging wars!
I have enjoyed Jim Gaffigan’s Food a Love Story, his other book Dad is Fat, Has Anyone Seen My Pants? by Sarah Colonna, Life as I Blow it by her as well..and Amy Poehler’s book Yes Please
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I haven’t heard of all of these but will for sure check them out. Good luck in the drawing.
Congrats, Greg! (And thanks for the two books. I’m dying for them to arrive.)
~Cindy
They are on their way. I’m sure you are going to enjoy the series.
Congratulations to you, Greg. That’s great. I always think I won’t enter the giveaways and then I see some books I really, really want to read. The female protagonist stack is just too tempting. So here is my list since last summer — all MG. Fish in a Tree, Moonpenny Island, Winterfrost, Finding the Worm, Courage for Beginners. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’ve only read Finding the Worm and Moonpenny Island. I have the others on my future read list. Good luck with the giveaway.
Great way to celebrate your two years! Congratulations. It’s easy for me name my favorite Marcelo in the Real World and Boy Toy in the YA world. The Secret Files of Fairday Marrow and Joshua and the Lightning Rod in the MG world. I’d love to have those books with boys at their center. Thanks so much for this beautiful offer.
Great choices. I have read Joshua and the Lightning Rod but not the others. I’ll look into those too as I’m always looking for good books with boy MC’s. Good luck in the drawing.
Thanks for the mention, Lee! How exciting to read you comment and see The Secret Files of Fairday Morrow. Made my day! 🙂
I have this one on my list to read this year. Can’t wait to start.
A few of the books I’ve enjoyed are Sky Raiders, Keeper of the Lost Cities, the Half Upon a Time trilogy, Resistance, and the Narnia books.
I’ve read the first two of your super choices. Good luck in the giveaway.
Congrats on 3 years blogging! Yeah!
How lucky for us that you are doing such an awesome giveaway.
My 5 MG favorites from the past year:
A Snicker of Magic
Joshua and the Lighting Road
The Timelock Disaster
Dragon Rider
Night Bird
Happy reading! 🙂
Woops- Didn’t finish commenting before I posted. 🙂
Congrats on 3 years blogging! Yeah! I always enjoy reading the Middle Grade Monday posts.
How lucky for us that you are doing such an awesome giveaway. Thanks so much! Looks like a lot of great books and I have only read one of them!
My 5 MG favorites from the past year:
A Snicker of Magic
Joshua and the Lighting Road
The Timelock Disaster
Dragon Rider
Night Bird
Happy reading! 🙂
I’ve read four of your choices with only Dragon Rider left to go. As noted above I have your novel on my TBR list. Thanks for stopping by and entering the giveaway. Good luck!