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Vicky Greenwell
This year's best in middle grade includes fierce folklore-inspired adventures, powerful explorations of identity, and tender ruminations on loss and grief. Tweens of all reading levels and interests will find a novel that speaks to them in this curated collection.
The first LGBTQA+ anthology for middle-graders featuring stories for every letter of the acronym, including realistic, fantasy, and sci-fi stories by authors like Justina Ireland, Marieke Nijkamp, Alex Gino, and more.
This humorous and heartfelt middle-grade debut by Nina Moreno with illustrations by Courtney Lovett is perfect for fans of Celia C. Pérez and Terri Libenson, and any reader still deciding what their passion in life is.
The Land of Stories meets Dominican myths and legends come to life in Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa, a blockbuster contemporary middle-grade fantasy duology starter from Julian Randall. Fans of Tristan Strong and The Storm Runner, here is your next obsession.
The turn of a card could change your destiny in this captivating middle grade adventure based on the Lotería card game and perfect for fans of Coco. While searching for her missing cousin, a young girl is transported to a mythical kingdom, becoming entangled in a perilous game of chance.
When you follow your dreams, the possibilities are endless!
Milla loves nothing more than imagining grand adventures in the great wide somewhere, just like Belle. She dreams of traveling the world and writing about her incredible discoveries. Unfortunately, there is nothing pretend about the fifth-grade overnight and Milla's fear that her moms won't let her go.Enter Piper, Mariana, Zahra, and Ruby. Together with Milla, they form the Daring Dreamers Club and become best friends. But can they help Milla believe she's ready for this real grand adventure?Diverse, talented, and smart--these five girls found each other because they all had one thing in common: big dreams. Touching on everyday dramas and the ups and downs of friendship, this series will enchant all readers who are princesses at heart.
In her latest novel, Khan (Amina's Voice, 2017) brings readers a charming take on Louisa May Alcott's 1868 classic, Little Women. Things for 13-year-old Jameela are great when she's named features editor of her school newspaper and becomes friends with Ali, who just moved to Georgia from London (dazzling English accent included). But when her dad is sent abroad for work for six months, things for Jameela and her three sisters feel like they're spiraling downhill, especially when one of her sisters falls ill. As her sister's condition worsens, Jameela must learn to curb her short temper to coexist with her sisters, while also learning that even as a journalist, some stories belong only to those who have lived them. Khan's homage to one of her favorite books growing up is engagingly written for a young, new generation. The plot takes a moment to thicken, but when it does, the natural prose and distinctive characters guide it along. Like Little Women, this is a story that is sure to appeal to many. Grades 4-7. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.
OK, let me stop acting like a crazy person for a minute. I do realize that some books might fit multiple categories and some books might defy categories. The boundaries between categories can be hazy, and, for example, what one person might consider an upper Middle Grade another person might consider a younger YA.
Except that the categories DO matter to librarians and booksellers who need to figure out where to shelve books so that appropriate readers can find them. And the categories matter to agents and editors who need to figure out how to sell and market books to the appropriate people.
Here is the kidlit genre where you will find your animal stories, your family-friendly read-alouds, your younger protagonists, and your shorter-length MG books. These books tend to have more illustrations than standard MG.
Here is the kidlit genre where you will find contemporary stories with more mature themes and longer books with more complicated plots. Protagonists are in middle school and so is the target audience.
Young Adult is a tricky one because though the target reader age is 12-19, there are many, many adults who read YA. Some people worry that this has pushed YA into darker, more mature themes and blurred the lines between YA and Adult. To further complicate matters, there are YA crossover books (YA books that appeal to adult readers) and plenty of adult books that feature teen protagonists and coming-of-age themes.
And then it gets even more complicated because there are Alex Award Winners. These are adult books that have special appeal for teenage readers (often due in part to a young protagonist.) However, these books definitely have mature themes, and are more appropriate for older teens.
Release date: September 6, 2022 Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Description: A young girl who stumbles into a magical realm ruled by a wicked witch is a haunting and ultimately uplifting middle grade novel about grief, family, and decades-old magic.
ISBN: 9781665904476
Release date: September 6, 2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Description: An upper middle grade contemporary story of survival and grief about two cousins whose resilience is tested when one of them is lost at sea.
ISBN: 9780374389659
Release date: September 16, 2022 Quill Tree Books
Description: A coming-of-age middle grade graphic novel that follows an autistic girl who finds friendship where she least expects it and learns to express her true self in a world where everyone defines her by her differences.
ISBN: 9780063081192
Release date: September 20, 2022 HarperCollins
Description: An irresistible younger middle grade novel about a girl who introduces her class to the art of mehndi for International Day.
ISBN: 9780063206236
Release date: October 4, 2022 Candlewick
Description: A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a fast-paced middle-grade debut from a seasoned author of contemporary crime fiction.
ISBN: 9781536223743
Release date: October 11, 2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Description: A middle grade contemporary fantasy in which a twelve-year-old girl grieves the loss of her beloved grandma and attempts to contact her beyond the grave.
ISBN: 9780374313777
Release date: October 18, 2022 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Description: A magical middle grade debut, inspired by Filipino folklore, about a ten-year-old girl who embarks on a quest in the world of gods and spirits to save her and her family from a sinister shadow god.
ISBN: 9780374389093
There is a huge difference between Middle Grade and Young Adult books. Middle Grade book heroes are usually Middle School aged. The books are are typically read by older elementary and younger middle school students, but they are usually BOUGHT by parents and teachers. They are expected to be "family friendly," and free of graphic violence, bad language and explicit sexual content. If a parent and a child would not be comfortable reading a book together, it is not Middle Grade.
So, the answer to your question is, unless the violence in your book is clearly cartoonish and unreal, this would NOT be a Middle Grade book, and would not be considered appropriate to target at fifth and sixth graders. It would not be out of place at all as a Young Adult book. Many fifth and sixth graders might still read it, of course, but it wouldn't be a book their parents would buy for them.
Are 24 kids fighting to the death? That's a best-seller! YA books are probably more violent than books for adults. Which book has more characters die Silence of the Lambs or The Hunger Games? Pretty sure Hunger Games wins.
I recently received a request for Middle Grade Books set in Colonial America over on Instagram and I was delighted. I studied general history as an undergrad and American History in graduate school. These days, where books and history overlap is my happy place.
This list of Middle Grade Books set in Colonial America is notably, and regrettably, lacking in books by/about American Indians. While they were certainly key figures in the time period, I've had trouble finding books that accurately and fairly represent them.
I will continue the hunt for great books to fill this gap, especially books by #ownvoices authors. I'd also love to find books about life in Colonial America by Black authors. If you have any recommendations, please leave them in the comments.
Overall, Colonial America is a time period that has been largely overlooked in children's literature. Authors take note! I'd love to see more middle grade books set in Colonial America, especially stories that don't just revolve around the revolution. I'll keep looking and update the list as I find more.
These are my favorite books on this list! I have been gushing about them since I read them. Absolutely stellar historical fiction set in the time period during and leading up to the American Revolution.
This is fictionalized biography of the real Nathaniel Bowditch, an early American mathematician made famous for his work in ocean navigation. Despite the old fashioned cover, it's a really entertaining story about how young Nat worked as an indentured servant and apprentice to an accountant before leaving his books to join a ship's crew and sail the seas.
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