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Birthday Flavors

"You wake up and you're fourteen. The world is your supersized soda waiting to be guzzled, right? Wrong. My birthday tasted more like Coke that went flat." —KIMCHI AND CALAMARI by Rose Kent

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Discover more Middle Grade books about beverages during the month of February!

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on February 4, 2023January 31, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: BeveragesLeave a comment on Birthday Flavors

I SPY … milk!

I SPY: Milk featuring the book covers of CLEMENTINE AND THE FAMILY MEETING by Sara Pennypacker; SAVE ME A SEAT by Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan; FORTUNATELY, THE MILK by Neil Gaiman; and JUST A PINCH OF MAGIC by Alechia Dow.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on February 3, 2023January 31, 2023Format ImageCategories I SPYTags #MGCarousel Topic: Beverages, I SPYLeave a comment on I SPY … milk!

Call Me Maybe

"One of Hunter's favorite hobbies is stealing my phone and changing my text alerts to annoying songs. Somehow he always manages to find a song that's more annoying than the last." —MY LIFE AS A POTATO by Arianne Costner

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on January 28, 2023January 6, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: MusicLeave a comment on Call Me Maybe

I SPY … music notes!

I SPY: Music Notes featuring the book covers of WHEN I HIT THE ROAD by Nancy J. Cavanaugh; SOLO by Kwame Alexander & Mary Rand-Hess; EMMY IN THE KEY OF CODE by Aimee Lucido; and BARAKAH BEATS by Maleeha Siddiqui.

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on January 27, 2023January 5, 2023Format ImageCategories I SPYTags #MGCarousel Topic: Music, I SPYLeave a comment on I SPY … music notes!

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The Music Machine

"The woman hunched over a strange instrument almost the size of her body. The instrument had a crank at one end, and when she turned the handle, deep notes came out that Molly thought might be what it would sound like if honeybees could sing." —THE NIGHT GARDENER by Jonathan Auxier

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on January 21, 2023January 6, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: MusicLeave a comment on The Music Machine

I SPY … headphones!

I SPY: Headphones featuring the book covers of A SOFT PLACE TO LAND by Janae Marks; THE BOY WHO HIT PLAY by Chloe Daykin; FIGHT + FLIGHT by Jules Machias; and MOONWALKING by Zetta Elliott & Lyn Miller-Lachmann

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on January 20, 2023January 5, 2023Format ImageCategories I SPYTags #MGCarousel Topic: Music, I SPYLeave a comment on I SPY … headphones!

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Electric

"If Granny was a musical instrument, she'd be an electric guitar." —THE KEY TO EXTRAORDINARY by Natalie Lloyd

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Unknown's avatarAuthor Middle Grade CarouselPosted on January 14, 2023January 6, 2023Format ImageCategories #MGCarousel Book QuotesTags #MGCarousel Topic: MusicLeave a comment on Electric

I SPY … a guitar!

I SPY: A Guitar featuring the book covers of ALL SUMMER LONG by Hope Larson; TUNE IT OUT by Jamie Sumner; THE THREE RULES OF EVERYDAY MAGIC by Amanda Rawson Hill; and BLACKBIRD FLY by Erin Entrada Kelly.

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