Chocolate Pudding

Katybird tucked her knees under her chin and covertly fished a bag of jelly beans she’d swiped from storage out of a drawer. A happy mood called for lime-flavored beans, thoughtful times needed root beer, and anger demanded cinnamon. Today’s flavor was chocolate pudding, the flavor of soul-sucking misery. She commenced her brooding. —CATTYWAMPUS by Ash Van Otterloo

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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!

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel November 2023: Flavor of the Month features the book THE TAKEOUT by Tracy Badua.

The Banana Leaf is Mila’s safe haven. While her dad is serving up Filipino-Indian cuisine from the food truck, she’s trying her hardest to make Coral Beach feel more like home.

But when a celebrity duo open up a copy-cat restaurant nearby, Mila is prepared to investigate using any means necessary—even if it means relying on some Filipino traditions she’s been uncomfortable to embrace.

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#MGCarousel Book Bingo – November & December 2023

Middle Grade Book Bingo card for November & December 2023 at Middle Grade Carousel. — click here to download the Bingo card for November & December 2023

#MGCarousel – November 2023

Our month-long Middle Grade reading challenge is designed so you can choose your own books and set a comfortable pace. All you need to play along are books which match the month’s featured theme.

Our challenge this November is…

Flavor of the Month

Middle Grade books about Taste

Join us in reading Middle Grade books that explore our sense of taste during the month of November! We recommend rustling up books with savory treats on the front cover, finding titles with descriptive words for different flavors, and sampling stories about kids who love working with delicious ingredients.

Enjoy It

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Discover more Middle Grade books set in the autumn during the month of October!

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Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this October? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel October 2023: That's Fall, Folks! features the book THE HALLOWEEN TREE by Ray Bradbury.

Halloween night, eight friends in full costume aim to meet at the local haunt. Instead, they meet Mr. Moundshroud. And when one of their own is spirited away by a dark being, it’s up to the boys to cross through Halloweens of yesteryear and retrieve him.

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Changing Seasons

A gracious September and a mellow October were succeeded by a soft and sad November, when long silken lines of rain slanted across the sere hillsides. —PAT OF SILVER BUSH by L.M. Montgomery

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Discover more Middle Grade books set in the autumn during the month of October!

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#amreading autumnally

Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this October? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel October 2023: That's Fall, Folks! features the book THE MIRACULOUS by Jess Redman.

Wunder Ellis used to believe in miracles, recording any extraordinary happenings around him in The Miraculous to study. But after his newborn sister dies, Wunder stops believing.

With his new friend, Faye, Wunder begins working for a strange old woman who seems to live in an abandoned house by the cemetery. Unusual errands, broken friendships, painful goodbyes, moving forward. Even without The Miraculous, Wunder is still seeing things that are hard to explain.

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