
Can you spot a deep purple cover on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

Can you spot a deep purple cover on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

Can you spot a purple & orange cover on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

Can you spot a purple & green cover on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!
Middle Grade Carousel is a series of monthly challenges for lovers and readers of middle grade books. Our theme for June is…

Magical and majestic colors are catching our eye. So this month out stacks will feature books of every kind–so long as the covers are the right color.

What’s your favorite sea-dwelling mythical creature? Add to our collection in the comments!

What’s your favorite cover of The Little Mermaid? Add to our collection in the comments!
Anastasia had read about orphans in storybooks. To an almost-eleven-year-old girl with two parents, orphans had been sort of a mythical figure, like unicorns and mermaids. A creature that lived in the pages of a book. And now she was one. An orphan, that is. Not a unicorn.
The League of Beastly Dreadfuls
Holly Grant


Can you spot a mermaid on the cover of other MG titles? Add to our collection in the comments!
It was a while before they realized that a mermaid had surfaced at the shallow end of the pool. Her hair was pale and silvery and her nails were a shimmering blue. Between each finger was a thin webbing, of the sort you might find on a newborn seal or a duck.
Aquamarine
Alice Hoffman
