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Category Archives: Middle Grade Book Reviews
WEIRD LITTLE ROBOTS
It’s another edition of MARVELOUS MIDDLE GRADE MONDAY with a new middle grade book on the shelves this Fall. THE PLOT (From Penguin Random House) Nine-year-old Penny Rose has just moved to a new town, and so far the robots … Continue reading
Polly AND Buster: The Wayward Witch & the Feelings Monster
This first book in the series comes to America from Australia’s best selling female author, Sally Rippin. The third person narration stays close to our young witch, Polly, as she hides her friendship with Buster. In the witching world monsters … Continue reading
STONE MAN AND THE TRAIL OF TEARS
IT’S ANOTHER EDITION OF MARVELOUS MIDDLE GRADE MONDAY! Driven to Stone Man’s trail… After U.S. soldiers attack twelve-year-old Tsatsi’s Cherokee village, his family flees to the Smokey Mountains. Facing storms, flood, and hunger, they’re forced to go where Stone Man, … Continue reading
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?
Last March I featured the first book in this new edition of the crime fighting thief, WHO IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? Since then there have been even more releases to keep both old and new fans up to … Continue reading
MMGM for 9/30/2019
Click the happy face to reach a blogger’s feature. ALWAYS in the MIDDLE (that’s me) features a new fantasy novel, A TIME TRAVELER’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY by Nicole Valentine. June McCrary Jacobs (Reading, Writing, & Stitch-Metic) has a S.T.E.A.M. … Continue reading
A Time Traveler’s Theory of Relativity
Welcome to another edition of MARVELOUS MIDDLE GRADE MONDAY and my review of a new fantasy novel. BACKGROUND for A TIME TRAVELER’S THEORY OF RELATIVITY by Nicole Valentine Twelve-year-old Finn is used to people in his family disappearing. His twin sister, … Continue reading
DOUBLE FELIX
The cover makes this middle grade novel appear like a story of two friends on an adventure. Partially true, but DOUBLE FELIX is more an adventure of discovery and understanding, especially for the main character. He has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder … Continue reading
MMGM for 9/23/19
IT’S ANOTHER MARVELOUS MIDDLE GRADE MONDAY and the FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN! CLICK ON A FALL(ing) LEAF TO REACH A BLOGGER’S POST. ALWAYS in the MIDDLE (that’s me) features a special book, MAYBE HE JUST LIKES YOU by Barbara … Continue reading
Explorer Academy—CODEBREAKING ACTIVITY ADVENTURE
Unlock ancient puzzles and secrets introduced via supercool codes and ciphers in this companion book to the new Explorer Academy series. In the first activity book based on the Explorer Academy, kids test their knowledge of ancient codes and ciphers … Continue reading
