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#amreading sunny stories

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

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel March 2022: Check the Yellow Pages features the book TURTLE IN PARADISE by Jennifer L. Holm

Life isn’t like the movies. But, then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She’s smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it’s 1935 and jobs and money and sometimes even dreams are scarce. So when Turtle’s mama gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn’t like kids, Turtle says goodbye without a tear and heads off to Key West, Florida to live with relatives she’s never met.

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#amreading sunny stories

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

Avery Bloom, who’s bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who’s fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, dads.

When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends–and possibly, one day, even sisters.

But things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted.

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#amreading sunny stories

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

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel March 2022: Check the Yellow Pages features the book LENNY'S BOOK OF EVERYTHING by Karen Foxlee

Lenny Spink is the sister of a giant. Her little brother, Davey, suffers from a rare form of gigantism and is taunted by other kids and turned away from school because of his size. To escape their cruel reality, Lenny and Davey obsess over the entries in their monthly installment of Burrell’s Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia set. Lenny vows to become a beetle expert, while Davey decides he will run away to Canada and build a log cabin. But as Davey’s disease progresses, the siblings’ richly imagined world becomes harder to cling to in this deeply moving and original novel about grief, family, and wonder.

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#MGCarousel – March 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 March is…

March 2022 at Middle Grade Carousel: Check the Yellow Pages

Check the Yellow Pages

From amber to pineapple, daffodil or marigold, butter, banana, and blonde! This month we’re looking for books covered in all things yellow.

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