Category: CHALLENGES
#MGCarousel – January 2024
We host month-long themed reading challenges are designed to allow you to pick your own pace and reading selection! Our Middle Grade book blog will be updated with this theme in mind, so be sure to subscribe for updates if you want to stay in the loop.
Our challenge this January is…
Hold On to Your Hat
Middle Grade Books about Hats and Headgear
Join us in reading Middle Grade books with a sense of style through the month of January! We recommend looking for books from historical periods, characters with an interest in sporty accessories, or stories fashioned to showcase occupations or hobbies that come with a dress code.
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Middle Grade Carousel will be taking a winter break through the month of December. Our regular monthly reading challenges will return January 2024!
December Activities:
- Complete the Middle Grade Book Bingo card for November-December!
- Check out previous challenge themes from our archive. We have reading lists, bookish games, and plenty of related posts to peruse.
- Find Middle Grade Carousel on Twitter for #kidlit quotes, games, and conversations.
- Follow Elza’s blog for colorful content on the daily.
- Follow CJ’s blog for regular reading updates and Middle Grade recs.
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Acceptable Eats
Read Along!
Discover more Middle Grade books about taste during the month of November!
#amreading tasty tales
Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this November? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
Vonceil’s brother, Elber, returns from the front lines of World War I to the family farm in Oklahoma, marries the girl he left behind, and life seems to go on. Until a mysterious woman in white arrives, demanding that Elber be with her instead.
His refusal brings a curse down upon the farm, turning their entire town’s drinking supply into saltwater. Striking out alone, Vonciel faces dangers both unfamiliar and supernatural in order to confront the Salt Witch and return everything to normal.
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Taste Test
Read Along!
Discover more Middle Grade books about taste during the month of November!
#amreading tasty tales
Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this November? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
The New York Standard is in need of a new food critic. The perfect application is a bit unconventional, but the head editor is simply thrilled to find someone passionate about fine dining and discovering new ingredients.
Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves everything to do with food. So when she receives an out-of-the-blue opportunity to write a real restaurant critique, she’s beyond thrilled to take the job. Unfortunately, Gladys’s latest culinary creation was a total catastrophe, and she’s been banned in participating in any food-related activities. So it will take a bit of creative thinking and the help of her friends to get out of East Dumpsford and taste her way through New York City.
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#MGCarousel – 20 Middle Grade Books About Flavors
Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about TASTE. CJ and Elza have brought 20 flavorsome Middle Grade books to the table!
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Read Along!
Discover more Middle Grade books about taste during the month of November!
#amreading tasty tales
Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this November? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
A young woman with phossy jaw applies to a London hospital, hoping to be trained as a nurse, only to find herself assigned to Mr. Joseph Merrick as a maid. He’s the Elephant Man. One badly scarred, one famously deformed. And both haunted by the ghosts of the women killed by the serial murderer Jack the Ripper.
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