#amreading buggy books

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

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel April 2022: Bookworms Bugging Out! features the book MAXIMILLIAN FLY by Angie Sage

Maximillian Fly wants no trouble. Yet because he stands at six feet two, with beautiful indigo wings, long antennae, and more arms than you or me, many are frightened of him.

He is a gentle creature who looks like a giant cockroach. This extraordinary human wants to prove his goodness, so he opens his door to two SilverSeed children in search of a place to hide.

Instantly, Maximillian’s quiet, solitary life changes. There are dangerous powers after them and they have eyes everywhere. But in this gray city of Hope trapped under the Orb, is escape even possible?

^{_{add on Goodreads}}

Check our #MGCarousel Challenges page for more info.

#MGCarousel – 20 Middle Grade Books About Insects

20 Middle Grade books about Insects: Middle Grade books that aren't afraid to get creepy-crawly and explore entomology!

Our #MGCarousel reading challenge this month is all about INSECTS. If you’re looking for buggy books, CJ and Elza have gathered 20 Middle Grade books that feature droves, swarms, rabbles, hives, and colonies of every kind.

Empty Hive

"Mr. Deaver pulled one of the panels out. It was one of the frames where the bees produced their honey in a comb made out of wax. There wasn't a single bee on it. And there wasn't a single bee flying out of the hive." —DARIUS BELL AND THE CRYSTAL BEES by Odo Hirsch

Read Along!

Discover more Middle Grade books about entomology during the month of April! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.

Check out our #MGCarousel Challenges page for more info.

Jeweled Beetle

The Lost Property Office by James R. Hannibal

Even as he made the transmission, Biddle noticed movement on the radio. He held it farther from his face and saw an enormous beetle perched on the dial, beautiful, with shimmering faceted wings and silvery legs. If it hadn’t moved, he would have taken it for a jeweled trinket.
The Lost Property Office by James R. Hannibal

#amreading buggy books

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

After Chester, a cricket, arrives in the Times Square subway station from his native Connecticut via a picnic basket, he takes up residence in the Bellinis’ newsstand. There tiny Chester is lucky enough to find three good friends: a little boy named Mario, whose parents run the unsuccessful newsstand; a fast-talking Broadway mouse called Tucker; and Tucker’s pal, Harry Cat. Between escapades in New York City, the four somehow manage to bring success to the almost bankrupt newsstand.

^{_{add on Goodreads}}

Check our #MGCarousel Challenges page for more info.

As Beetles Go

Read Along!

Discover more Middle Grade books about entomology during the month of April! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.

Check out our #MGCarousel Challenges page for more info.

Life Cycle

The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

“I was thinking,” Lucky said, “about the lives of ants–which is different from the life cycle of ants. I mean, think about if some of them die. The others just go on like they didn’t even notice. You can’t even make an impression on them.”
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron

#amreading buggy books

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

Ledger Kale always dreamed of the awesome magical power he’d get when he turned thirteen. The day when folks in his family inherit an extraordinary talent called a savvy. But Ledge’s dreams are soon in pieces. And so are the toaster, the television, and the wipers on the family minivan.

After the Kales decide it’s safe to head to a family wedding in Wyoming, Ledge’s savvy is witnessed by eagle-eyed reporter, Sarah Jane Cabot. Now Ledge has to stop Sarah Jane from turning savvies into headlines and figure out how to scumble his savvy into control before everything falls apart.

^{_{add on Goodreads}}

Check our #MGCarousel Challenges page for more info.

#MGCarousel – April 2022

Our month-long themed challenges are designed for readers of Middle Grade fiction. Play along by finding books which match the prompt.

Our challenge this April is…

Bookworms Bugging Out!

This month we’re seeking out information about insects. From beetles and butterflies to cockroaches and crickets, there’s so much to learn about the crawly critters around us!

#amreading sunny stories

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

David can really pack away food. He’s a fan of food-eating contests (he watches them on YouTube), and his best friends have always timed how long it takes him to eat an after-school pizza at Pigorino’s, his favorite Italian restaurant. But circumstances conspire, and David needs the prize money offered by an upcoming contest. His training concerns his parents, but it could be worse. They could find out what he’s done.

^{_{add on Goodreads}}