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Discover more Middle Grade books featuring pink during the month of February! Recommend your favorites, snap a photo, or share a quote using the hashtag #MGCarousel.
Peep Toes
Tag: Author: Rebecca Stead
Bingo Squares
Need a little help finding books that fit this month’s bingo board? Here are a few recommendations!
Double ‘O’ in the Title
- Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
- The Dragon’s Tooth by N. D. Wilson
- Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question by Martha Freeman
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Can you find a book with double ‘o’ words in the title on your home bookshelf?
Bingo Squares
Need a little help finding books that fit this month’s bingo board? Here are a few recommendations!
‘Things’ in the Title
- The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead
- The Science of Breakable Things by Tae Keller
- All the Impossible Things by Lindsay Lackey
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Can you find a book with ‘things’ in the title on your bookshelf?
The Big Picture
National Name Yourself Day
The calendar is filled with notable days, some more quirky than others. April 9 is #NationalNameYourselfDay, and I actually have an appropriate middlegrade book quote. In Rebecca Stead’s Liar & Spy, we meet a boy named Georges.
My name is Georges, which is pronounced just like “George” because the S is silent, but of course some kids call me “Jor-Jess,” or “Gorgeous.” I don’t much care. There are worse things to be called than Gorgeous, even for a boy.
Of course, Georges didn’t name himself. But his new neighbors definitely fit in the quirky department. They’re not exactly conventional, and all three kids really did name themselves. Continue reading “National Name Yourself Day”
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