#MGCarousel Book Quotes – Middle Grade Carousel

Fantasy Florist

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is A BOUQUET OF BOOKS. Find more floral Middle Grade books during the month of November.

“Head ducked, I hurried to the closest shop at the corner, the florist’s stand, breathing in the cane-sugar scent of dusklight flowers. The glass vases lining the counter were heavy with dusklight stems, the velvety purple buds closed tight.” —EVA EVERGREEN, SEMI-MAGICAL WITCH by Julie Abe

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Arboretum

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is A BOUQUET OF BOOKS. Find more floral Middle Grade books during the month of November.

"In the prickly shelter of Oldtown Arboretum’s famous blue roses, a flame was born." —THE WINGSNATCHERS by Sarah Jean Horwitz

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Invisible

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is A BOUQUET OF BOOKS. Find more floral Middle Grade books during the month of November.

“Red is a blooming word. I watched it rise up in front of me and sprout leaves and vines that stretched all across the apartment complex. Mama and Cleo and Frannie didn’t see it, of course. But I did. I picked an invisible flower and tucked it in my hair.” —A SNICKER OF MAGIC by Natalie Lloyd

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Fun and Games

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is STEP RIGHT UP AND ENJOY THE SHOW. Find more spectacular Middle Grade books during the month of June.

“Bright lights spun around the Ferris wheel and merry-go-round. Stage lights lit the red-and-white tents. Young couples lined up for cotton candy and shows, while young children called to their parents for more tickets. Games cried out: rat-a-bang-clang and ding-ding-dang!” –THE MAGIC MISFITS by Neil Patrick Harris

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Curiosities

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is STEP RIGHT UP AND ENJOY THE SHOW. Find more spectacular Middle Grade books during the month of June.

Grunchgirdle's 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 by Kieran Larwood

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Mash Up

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is STEP RIGHT UP AND ENJOY THE SHOW. Find more spectacular Middle Grade books during the month of June.

The Fairy Festival is like a ren faire, a comic con, and a music fest mashed into one. People pretty much wear whatever they want, with a loose fairy-ish/medieval theme, and spend the day pretending they’re in a different world from this one. —AIR by Monica Roe

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All the Stories

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is STEP RIGHT UP AND ENJOY THE SHOW. Find more spectacular Middle Grade books during the month of June.

“Peter and I just about died of envy. We all wanted to see a circus powerful bad. I used to save the discarded newspapers or magazines that had stories about the circus so the others could read them too. There were real lions and folks flinging themselves through the air on trapezes. The circus was the one thing that might make me leave Whistle.” —When the Circus Came to Town by Laurence Yep

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Viper

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is COLD-BLOODED CREATURES. Find more magical Middle Grade books during the month of May.

The Baudelaire orphans followed Uncle Monty to the cloth-covered cage, and with a flourish—the word “flourish” here means “a sweeping gesture, often used to show off”—he swooped the cloth off the cage. Inside was a large black snake, as dark as a coal mine and as thick as a sewer pipe, looking right at the orphans with shiny green eyes. —THE REPTILE ROOM by Lemony Snicket

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Exposed

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is COLD-BLOODED CREATURES. Find more magical Middle Grade books during the month of May.

“Poor Ronny the Rattlesnake without so much as a pair of underwear, much less a fabulous yarn-bomb outfit. I know exactly how he feels—exposed.” –Zinnia and the Bees by Danielle Davis

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Be Brave

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is COLD-BLOODED CREATURES. Find more magical Middle Grade books during the month of May.

When he was little, she used to call him Turtle because he was so quiet. “You know, Turtle,” she’d said before they left for school, “you shouldn’t be such a turtle …. Remember to stick your neck out …. Speak up, be brave.” —WONDERSTRUCK by Brian Selznick

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