#MGCarousel Book Quotes – Page 4 – Middle Grade Carousel

Fine Art

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is I CAN READ A RAINBOW. Find more colorful Middle Grade books during the month of February.

The painting! As I looked down, I saw that a bottle of rubbing alcohol had overturned, spilling its contents over the surface, dragging and mixing colors along its path. —UNDER THE EGG by Laura Marx Fitzgerald

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In the Moonlight

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is I CAN READ A RAINBOW. Find more colorful Middle Grade books during the month of February.

Standing before me is the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen. It’s a dragon. Not one of those horned beasts that lumber around mounds of gold and snort smoke from their nostrils. This one has a beautiful, sleek body that sparkles with rainbow colors in the moonlight.

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Colored Glass

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is I CAN READ A RAINBOW. Find more colorful Middle Grade books during the month of February.

Aidan looked to see if it was actually raining. And he saw, really saw for the first time, the colored panes in the back door … He had never seen anything so obviously magical in his life. —ENCHANTED GLASS by Diana Wynne Jones

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Works of Art

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is I CAN READ A RAINBOW. Find more colorful Middle Grade books during the month of February.

Dogie’s surfboards were like works of art. Splashed across their rainbow-colored decks were air-brushed paintings of waterfalls and sea dragons and a host of other fantastic creatures. Her favorite painting was a winged horse that looked like part horse and part comet, with its long tail blazing down the length of the board. —KEEPER by Kathi Appelt

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Happy Birthday

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is I CAN READ A RAINBOW. Find more colorful Middle Grade books during the month of February.

When I wake up, rainbow-colored helium balloons are bouncing on my ceiling and I’m not eleven anymore. I haven’t grown overnight, or changed in any physical way, but I feel different. Everything feels more. —THE FOURTEENTH GOLDFISH by Jennifer L. Holm

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Sun Protection

They called it the Hat. It was a long white hood that masked the whole of Jess’s face and neck, over which she wore something like ski goggles. The rest of her body was covered up with a baggy top, trousers, and thick gloves so that no part of her skin was exposed to the sun. —THE ICE GARDEN by Guy Jones

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The Hat Trade

Sophie of course knew the hat trade quite well already. Since she was a tiny child she had run in and out of the big workshed across the yard where the hats were damped and molded on blocks, and flowers and fruit and other trimmings were made from wax and silk. —HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE by Diana Wynne Jones

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Heroic Headgear

On his head, over the fish-scale hood, went his helmet. It flashed like a halo as he stepped out onto the tramped earth in front of the hut, drawing a soft “Oh!” from the audience that had gathered there. —NO SUCH THING AS DRAGONS by Philip Reeve

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Play Ball

I wheel myself along the hallway and grab my mask and Dad’s old-fashioned catcher’s mitt from the basket at the bottom of the kitchen cupboard. I put the mitt there after Dad died because I couldn’t stand to look at it anymore, and it wasn’t like I had any use for it. Not until today, anyway. —MASCOT by Antony John

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A Hatmaker

Every birthday Cordelia hoped to be given one of her own: a hatpin that would make her a Hatmaker. Having a hatpin would finally allow her to begin the work her fingers itched to do. —THE HATMAKERS by Tamzin Merchant

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