#MGCarousel – June 2024

We host month-long themed reading challenges designed so you can choose your own pace and reading selection! Our Middle Grade book blog will be updated with this theme in mind, so be sure to subscribe for updates if you want to stay in the loop.

Our challenge this June is…

Step Right Up and Enjoy the Show

Middle Grade Books at the Circus

Join us in reading sensational Middle Grade books through the month of June! We recommend looking for books with a variety of attractions, talented performance artists, and unbelievable animals from across the globe! Marvel at the many stories with circus-bound runaways, spooky sideshows, and fairground escapades we’ve gathered for your entertainment!

I SPY … gators & crocs!

Take a Look!

Can you find a Middle Grade book that features an alligator or crocodile on the front cover? Add to our collection in the comments.

Book Spotting!

Do you recognize this Middle Grade book cover? Leave your guess in the comments!

VISIT @KINDELADIES FOR MORE FUN AND GAMES

Viper

Our themed Middle Grade reading challenge this month is COLD-BLOODED CREATURES. Find more magical Middle Grade books during the month of May.

The Baudelaire orphans followed Uncle Monty to the cloth-covered cage, and with a flourish—the word “flourish” here means “a sweeping gesture, often used to show off”—he swooped the cloth off the cage. Inside was a large black snake, as dark as a coal mine and as thick as a sewer pipe, looking right at the orphans with shiny green eyes. —THE REPTILE ROOM by Lemony Snicket

Find more reptilian content

GMGR – Read a Rainbow

Middle Grade Carousel is proud to be partnered with Great Middle Grade Reads, a group for readers of Middle Grade fiction to enjoy group discussion, book recommendations, reading challenges, and more.

Read a Rainbow!

YELLOW BOOK COVERS

All Four Stars by Tara Dairman
Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango
Coyote Queen by Jessica Vitalis

Play Along!

Join Great Middle Grade Reads and check the rules for their brand new Read a Rainbow challenge.
Download the Read a Rainbow graphic template to track your progress.
Recommend your favorites or share what you plan on reading to complete your rainbow. Don’t forget to use the hashtag #MGCarousel or #GreatMGReads!
Check the Great Middle Grade Reads page for more info.

#amreading scaly stories

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

Book spotlight for Middle Grade Carousel May 2024: Cold-Blooded Creatures features the book DEAR STUDENT by Elly Swartz.

When Autumn is picked to be the secret voice of the Dear Student letters in the Hillview newspaper, she finds herself smack in the middle of a feud between her new friends–and they can’t stand each other.

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