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!
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Check out CJ’s final #BookADayMay list!
Who I Am (in book titles)
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!
The honest truth:
parked
trapped
every day
waiting for normal
nothing ever happens here
estranged grump
the gauntlet in real life
absolutely normal chaos
tut-tut
anyway
restart!
drumroll, please
The crossroads
fearless
wish
bloom
sweep
smile
wonder
bliss
Some kind of courage
A crooked kind of perfect
Ambush the wish
Hatching magic
Writing magic
the color of my words
charmed life
sunny side up
wizard at work
things that are absolutely truly
extraordinary
Check out #NewYearsReads2021 and share your own adventures with book spine poetry!