Welcome to Middle Grade Carousel! We run a series of games and challenges for readers here on our blog. If you’re looking for ways to play, this is a good place to start.
Join us in reading books that feature locks and keys through the month of May!
Read a book every day during the month of May! It’s a fun way to make reading a regular habit, and kick off summer reading season.
Discover more Middle Grade lock and key themed books during the month of May! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.
Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about LOCKS AND KEYS. If you’re ready to unlock the possibilities, CJ and Elza have gathered 20 Middle Grade books that feature padlocks, skeleton keys, secret doors, treasure chests, and more high-security places.
Continue reading “#MGCarousel – 20 Middle Grade Books with Locks and Keys”Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this May? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
When a mysterious parcel arrives at her family’s new home, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist has a curious feeling she’s meant to discover what’s inside.
Much to Lin’s surprise, the ornate key contained in the parcel unlocks a spellbinding world called Sylver, hidden behind the cellar door. Sylver is an enchanting land of eternal winter, inhabited by animals that shared a special connection with children in the real world, either as beloved pets or tamed wild animals. In death, they are delivered to Sylver, where they take on a curiously human-like form and still watch over the children they cherish.
While Lin is overjoyed to be reunited with her beloved pet, Rufus, she soon learns that the magic of the Petlings and Wilders is failing, and snow trolls want to claim Sylver for themselves. Lin must discover a way to stop them and save this enchanted world.
We want to know… can you find a purple book on your shelf? Share your answer in the comments!
We’ve had another wonderful week of reading for our Book A Day May reading challenge. CJ & Elza are here to share their second week’s worth of books.
Can you spot a book that has a winding key on the cover? Add to our collection in the comments.
Do you recognize this Middle Grade book cover? Leave your guess in the comments!
Discover more Middle Grade lock and key themed books during the month of May! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.
On the next shelf are paint bottles and stacks of paper, everything from thick watercolor paper to flimsy sheets of jewel-colored tissue paper. And lots of things I’ve collected: shells, rocks, a tiny glass elephant, a blackened old skeleton key my grandmother found in a chest but which unlocks nothing. I kept it because I like how it feels in my hand, the heart shape of the top and the jagged teeth at the bottom, and because—Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
Rules by Cynthia Lord
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