Category: CHALLENGES
Bookstagram: In the Dark
Bookstagram: Brave
#MGCarousel – March 2019
Middle Grade Carousel is a series of monthly challenges for lovers and readers of middle grade books. Our theme for March is…
Draw Me In
We’ve always been big fans of art. The colors! The compositions! But we also love words. The sounds! The synonyms! So it makes sense that if you put the two together, we’re going to get excited.
#MGCarousel – Spring Reading Bingo
Contractions
Mom’s eyes darkened. “Hamlet, you know how I feel about the use of contractions.”
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Erin Dionne
Top Ten
In many ways, the ghost in the jar had been a thorn in my side for ages….It was thoroughly, defiantly, exultantly reprehensible; in fact, if you wrote down the ten most unsavory character traits you could imagine, the skull possessed the nine worst on the list, and it only lacked the tenth because that one wasn’t quite bad enough.
The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud
Signature
If you assigned a number to each letter of the alphabet—a somewhat common practice in Bach’s time, apparently—J. S. Bach’s last name added up to fourteen. B (2) + A (1) + C (3) + H (8) = 14. He used the sum of the letters in his name in creative ways in his compositions … it was Bach’s way of building in a cryptic “signature.”
Giant Pumpkin Suite
Melanie Heuiser Hill
Did You Know?
What’s your favorite mystery series?
Did You Know?
Which era would you like to visit if you could?
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