Middle Grade Carousel

Pillage

"The train choked as it moved up the mountain pass. The windows began to blur with small drops of water. The water swirled around the window in wispy gray patterns." —Pillage by Obert Skye

I SPY … umbrellas!

Book covers for Mary Poppins, Harper and the Scarlet Umbrella, and Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow

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Book covers for Call it Courage, The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw, The Wand and the Sea, The Left-Handed Fate, The Wanderer, Kensuke's Kingdom, The Jolly Regina, The Great Wide Sea, The Book of Wonders, The Voyage to Magical North, The Map to Everywhere, and Magic Marks the Spot

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The Key to Extraordinary

"Whenever I ride on the back of my granny Blue's motorcycle, I feel like it's only the two of us and the wild, endless air." —The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

I SPY … the bus!

Book covers for Savvy, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma, No Fixed Address, Murder at the Museum, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise, and Tower of the Five Orders

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I SPY … hot air balloons!

Book covers for The Glass Town Game, The Remarkable Inventions of Walter Mortinson, Slyvie and the Songman, A Tangle of Knots, Max Tilt: 80 Days or Die, The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Sky Chasers, and The Borrowers Aloft

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I SPY … trains!

Book covers for The Train of Lost Things, The Detective's Assistant, On the Blue Comet, and The Boundless

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Bike in Place

Mom says physical exercise is healthy and important but it’s risky and dangerous. So, I have a bike but it’s stationary. She’s too worried I’ll fall and injure myself to let me out on the open road. Or even the open driveway. But I have complete freedom to bike in place as long as I wear a helmet.

The Incredible Magic of Being
Kathryn Erskine

Erskine, Kathryn - The Incredible Magic of Being

Henry, Kansas

The Henry on the bus was not a town in Kansas. He was simply a twelve-year-old boy on a slow bus from Boston.

100 Cupboards
N. D. Wilson

100 Cupboards by ND Wilson

I SPY … vehicles!

Book covers for The Great Ghost Rescue, Waiting for Normal, Little House on the Prairie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Fortunately, the Milk, North of Nowhere, The Key to Extraordinary, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, The Notations of Cooper Cameron, My Diary at the Edge of the World, Howl's Moving Castle, and Full of Beans

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