Category: CHALLENGES
#MGCarousel – March 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 March is…
The Rest is History
Middle Grade Historical Fiction
Join us in reading Middle Grade books about the past during the month of March! We recommend looking for stories about heroic historical figures, period dramas, legends from long ago, and warping through time to discover days gone by for yourself.
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So there’s coffee, and then there’s coffee on a private jet. When Jen, our hostess, took our drink orders, she kept trying to push me toward chocolate milk or ginger ale. She even offered a root beer float. But I knew what I wanted.
Jack and the Geniuses: at the Bottom of the World by Bill Nye & Gregory Mone
#amreading by the cupful
Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this February? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
A brother and sister cannot eat breakfast until their father comes home from the store with milk. He is late. Ages and ages. And when he finally returns, he explains his delay.
Aliens and abductions. Pirates and piranhas. Dinosaurs and dirigibles. Lisping vampires and one-eyed gods. One devoted father determined to deliver dairy.
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Something Special
Read Along!
Discover more Middle Grade books about beverages during the month of February!
#MGCarousel – 20 Middle Grade Books About Beverages
Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about BEVERAGES. CJ and Elza have gathered 20 thirst-quenching Middle Grade books that feature fizzy fountain drinks, curious concoctions, stories you can steep in, and plenty of liquid refreshments!
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Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this February? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
Life has thrown a lot of lemons at ten-year old Lemonade Liberty Witt. After losing her mom and being moved to live with a grandfather she’s never even met, it’s impossible to find the bright side. Boy next door, Tobin Sky, invites her to be his Assistant at Bigfoot Detectives, Inc. and she reluctantly agrees. There’s nothing better to do in a town that truly believes in a woolly beast lurking in the woods. But their efforts to capture evidence of the cryptid’s existence quickly get out of hand when all clues point to something big.
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Calming Ritual
Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you. Everything pauses while you do familiar things with taps and kettles; it allows you to catch your breath and become calm. I’ve made tea on camping stoves while Specters paced beyond my protective iron chains; I’ve brewed some while watching a Revenant claw itself free of its grave.
The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
Goblin Activity
Read Along!
Discover more Middle Grade books about beverages during the month of February!
#amreading by the cupful
Looking for books that fit our monthly reading challenge this February? Try one of the favorites from our home shelf!
Fourth-grader Evan Treski is people-smart. He’s good at talking with people, even grownups. His younger sister, Jessie, on the other hand, is math-smart, but not especially good with people. So when the siblings’ lemonade stand war begins, there really is no telling who will win—or even if their fight will ever end.
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