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#MGCarousel – December 2020

Middle Grade Carousel is a series of monthly challenges for lovers and readers of middle grade books. Our theme for December is…

December at Middle Grade Carousel: Branching Out

Branching Out

We’re climbing the shelves in search of stories that contain wooden wonders, forbidden forests, and ancient groves.

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A True Friend

"It is not often

Family Secret

When children at school talked about the Vivienne Small books, Tuesday never said “My mom wrote them,” even though she sometimes felt she would burst with the effort of keeping it a secret.
Finding Serendipity by Angelica Banks

Face Facts

"I got to thinking—what would our stories be like? What would an author write about us? Let's face facts: We may be the most boring twelve-year olds on the planet." —Masters of Disaster by Gary Paulsen

Nonsense

"I did not like nonsense stories; I wanted narrative to unfold with some degree of logic, much as life should. Although often it did not."

New Notebook

Mulrox and the Malcognitos by Kerelyn Smith

Trolzor, the barkeep, had given Mulrox the notebook as a surprise a few months ago. The tiny book was wrapped in purple fabric and, on the front, was a toad outlined in gold. It was so lovely he hesitated each time before writing in it, afraid to screw it up with his messy ideas.
Mulrox and the Malcognitos by Kerelyn Smith

Your Voice

"I don't know if you realize it, Felix, but you have a strong writing voice. You write clearly, and you have good ideas and you express them in a way that makes me feel like a particular person is speaking to me, and you use solid, concrete details that make what you're saying come alive. That's what I mean by a strong writing voice." —Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker

Pseudonyms

"After the Penny Dreadful had been bequeathed to her by her late father, following his sad passing alongside her mother ... Penelope had singlehandedly acted as the magazine's editor, lead author, and publisher, hiding her true identity behind countless pseudonyms." —Twelve Minutes to Midnight by Christopher Edge

A Straight Line

The Voyage to Magical North by Claire Fayers

A moving object will continue in a straight line unless something happens to knock it off its course. Some say this is also true of stories.
The Voyage to Magical North by Claire Fayers