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Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
By Janie Cheaney |
Three 10-year-old girls cope with life’s ups and downs by learning to rely on each other, in a story with "magical" elements. Raymie Nightingale by ...
Read More Spelling It Out by Margaret Finnegan
By Janie Cheaney |
In Spelling It Out, a competitive speller discovers his own strengths as well as the value of family. Spelling It Out by Margaret Finnegan. Atheneum, ...
Read More Blended by Sharon Draper
By Betsy Farquhar |
Isabella is blended: half-white, half-black. Soon, she's going to be in a blended family, too. How do you find your identity when you're all mixed ...
Read More The Beat I Drum by Dusti Bowling
By Janie Cheaney |
In The Beat I Drum, Dusti Bowling follows a character from her earlier best-seller as he navigates a move and a new relationship with his ...
Read More The Ambassador of Nowhere Texas by Kimberly Willis Holt
By Janie Cheaney |
"Nowhere Texas" is better known as Antler, the small town that Zachary Beaver visited in an earlier novel that bears his name. The Ambassador of ...
Read More Quiet Family Dramas: Four Recent Middle-grade novels
By Janie Cheaney |
A roundup of recent middle-grade novels about family formation and dissolution. Stories, like people, begin at home, and no matter how fanciful or adventurous middle-grade ...
Read More Mayday by Karen Harrington
By Janie Cheaney |
In Mayday, 13-year-old Wayne discovers that even a plane crash can have a silver lining, and treasures may hide under life’s hard knocks. Mayday by ...
Read More Tru and Nelle by G. Neri
By Janie Cheaney |
Tru and Nelle by G. Neri. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, 336 pages Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 8-10 Recommended for: ages 8-12 Bottom Line: Based ...
Read More Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
By Betsy Farquhar |
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead. Wendy Lamb Books, 2015. 304 pages. Reading Level: Middle Grades, ages 10-12Recommended For: Ages 12-15 Bottom Line: Three best friends attempt ...
Read More A+ Attitude (Morgan Love Series) by Stephanie Perry Moore
By Betsy Farquhar |
A+ Attitude (Morgan Love Series #1) by Stephanie Perry Moore. Lift Every Voice Books (a Moody Imprint), 2011. 144 pages. Reading Level: Chapter Books, ages ...
Read More The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
By Betsy Farquhar |
While Rosalind and the Penderwick parents are off on their own adventures, the remaining Penderwicks head to Point Mouette on the Maine coast for a ...
Read More The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes
By Janie Cheaney |
The Distance Between Lost and Found by Kathryn Holmes. HarperTeen, 2015. 306 pages. Reading Level: Young Adults, ages 12-15 Recommended for: ages 15-18 Bottom Line: ...
Read More Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book by Nancy Rue
By Janie Cheaney |
Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book, by Nancy Rue. Zondervan, 2010, 211 pages. (Real Life series #1) Reading Level: Middle grades, ages 10-12 Recommended for: ...
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