Can you spot a grave on the cover of other MG titles? Add to our collection in the comments!
Author: Middle Grade Carousel
A mother-daughter duo dedicated to all things Middle Grade, CJ & Elza run a series of monthly reading challenges. You can also find them on Twitter: @kindeladies, or Instagram: @mgcarousel.
Serafina and the Black Cloak
Bookstagram: Anya’s Ghost
Standard Equipment
An onlooker, recognizing us as psychic investigation agents, would have assumed that the bags were filled with the equipment of our trade: salt-bombs, lavender, iron filings, silver Seals and chains. This was in fact quite true, but I also carried a skull in a jar, so we weren’t entirely predictable.
The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud
I SPY … black cats
Can you spot a black cat on the cover of other MG titles? Add to our collection in the comments!
The Graveyard Book
Grunchgirdl’es World of Curiosities
Grunchgirdl’es World of Curiosities perched at the end of the rickety Little Pilchton pier, like a jackdaw on a branch … Besides Sheba, the other attractions were a stuffed squirrel with a carp’s tail sewn where its legs should be (“the world’s only true mermaid!”) and a two-headed lamb called Flossy.
Freaks
Kieran Larwood
Bookstagram: Ghosthunters
#MGCarousel – October 2018
Middle Grade Carousel is a series of monthly challenges for lovers and readers of middle grade books. Our theme for October is…
Haunting the Bookshelf
Something’s sneaking around the shelves. A book bumped off the shelf… a giggle from the reading nook… there’s something strange in the library, and it’s not us!
Pirate Captain Jim
“Walk the plank,” says Pirate Jim.
“But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.”
“Then you must steer us through the gale.”
“But Captain Jim, I cannot sail.”
“Then down with the galley slaves you go.”
“But Captain Jim, I cannot row.”
“Then you must be the pirate’s clerk.”
“But Captain Jim, I cannot work.”
“Then a pirate captain you must be.”
“Thank you, Jim,” says Captain Me.
Pirate Captain Jim
Shel Silverstein
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