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#BookADayMay Reading Report

Another week of Book A Day May has gone by and CJ & Elza are back with another batch of recently-read books to report. Maybe there are a few you’d like to read, too!

#BookADayMay Reading Report

Book A Day May has reached its halfway point, and all that reading is adding up quickly! CJ & Elza are reporting from the second week of this month-long reading challenge.

#BookADayMay Reading Report

We’re through our first week of Book A Day May! Have you been keeping up so far? CJ & Elza are ready to report in with their most recent reads.

#BookADayMay Reading Report

We’ve come to the end of Book A Day May! CJ & Elza are here to share their final week of progress as we close out another fun year of daily reading and bookish shenanigans.

#BookADayMay Reading Report

We’ve had another wonderful week of reading for our Book A Day May reading challenge. CJ & Elza are here to share their second week’s worth of books.

#BookADayMay Reading Report

We’ve had another wonderful week of reading for our Book A Day May reading challenge. CJ & Elza are here to share their second week’s worth of books.

#BookADayMay Reading Report

We’re through our first week of Book A Day May! Have you been keeping up so far? CJ & Elza are ready to report in with their most recent reads.

#BookADayMay

Check out CJ’s final #BookADayMay list!

C. J. Milbrandt

Complete! I do love this annual tradition.

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If there’s one thing that we love here at Middle Grade Carousel, it’s a game! Upon spying a challenge issued by Christie Megill on Twitter, we flew to our home library with an eye toward book titles that say something about our personalities. Here’s what we found.

CJ’s Stack

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood
The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann
Savvy by Ingrid Law
The Exact Location of Home by Kate Messner
The Honest Truth by Dan Geminhart

Find more from CJ on her blog!

Elza’s Stack

The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd
A Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
All the Colors of Magic by Valija Zinck
I Am Pusheen the Cat by Claire Belton
“Shouldn’t You be in School?” by Lemony Snicket
Magic or Not? by Edward Eager

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Can you find book titles that describe you in some way?

Book Spine Poetry

Elza has been hosting #NewYearsReads2021, a series of challenges and games on social media designed to kick off the new year of reading. The photo challenge prompt for today was “Book Spine Poetry”.

CJ decided to give it a whirl with books from our Middle Grade shelves. Here’s what she came up with!