The Great Ice Cream Truck Heist by JJ Johnson tells a funny and memorable tale. Full of bravado and self-doubt, […]
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Middle-grade voice example
Sometimes I stray from my core mission of reviewing middle grade novels. This novel is almost a middle-grade novel. After
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt, a review Read Post »
Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage (2012), tells a middle-grade whodunit with the unforgettable Southern voice of a rising sixth-grader,
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Sal Vidon, able narrator, is somehow calm when outrageous things are happening. And plenty of outrageous things do happen in
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Louisiana’s Way Home, a middle-grade historical novel by Kate DiCamillo, took ahold of my heart somehow.
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Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos, a review Published in 2011 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Genre: Middle grade
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Greetings From Witness Protection! by Jake Burt, a review Published 2017, MacMillan Publishing Group, 358 pages Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary
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