It’s NATIONAL VANILLA ICE CREAM DAY!
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Leading the MMGM parade today is writer Patricia Tilton at Children’s Books Heal. She’s features a picture book on Fridays and of course is here each Monday with a MG review. Click on the large vanilla cone to read her newest— A review of Lost! Survivor Diaries by Terry Lynn Johnson.  

Here at ALWAYS in the MIDDLE I have a few thoughts on THE UNEXPECTED LIFE OF OLIVER CROMWELL PITTS by Avi. Read all about this second book in my series on the nurturing of MG Books.

Natalie Aguirre at Literary Rambles has an interview with debut author K.A. Reynolds and a giveaway of her MG fantasy THE LAND OF YESTERDAY.

Author June McRary Jacobs at Reading, Writing and Stitch-Metic has a contemporary fiction feature on a very moving book, ‘From You to Me’, by Author K.A. Holt.

Suzanne Warr and Tales from the Raven spotlights The Very Little Princess, by Marion Dane Bauer.

Scribbles of an Aspiring Author, Kara Armstrong, reviews The Mark of the Dragonfly, by Jaleigh Johnson.

Joanne Fritz at My Brain on Books returns this week with a review of THE GIRL WITH MORE THAN ONE HEART by Laura Geringer Bass.

Karen Yingling always has great MMGM picks. Be sure to read her review today along with the many other choices she posted the past week.