Middle Grade Mafioso

Don Vito: "You're not middle anything. You're top grade. Top grade, you hear me? Anybody else call you this middle thing, and I bust some knee caps. Capice?"

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Monday, January 27, 2014

This year's 90-second Newbery entrant: HOLES

Last year if you recall, the most thespian of my three sons (they are all theatrical, but the middle one really lives and breathes it), m...

Monday, January 20, 2014

A Slow Start

I admit it--it's been a slow start to the blogging year. Most of this has been because of the necessary recovery from the holidays (a...

Monday, December 16, 2013

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: A SONG FOR BIJOU by Josh Farrar

A SONG FOR BIJOU (by Josh Farrar, Walker Books 2013) What it's About (from the book jacket): From the moment Alex Schrader sees Bijo...

Monday, December 2, 2013

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: HARD LUCK (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #8) by Jeff Kinney

A couple of weeks ago, Jeff Kinney came to town. Fifty fourth and fifth graders from my son's elementary school were invited to meet h...

Monday, November 25, 2013

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: THE TRUTH OF ME by Patricia Maclachlan

THE TRUTH OF ME by Patricia MacLachlan (Katherine Tegan Books, 2013) What It's About (from the book jacket): When Robbie and his dog...

Monday, November 18, 2013

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: LARA'S GIFT by Annemarie O'Brien

LARA'S GIFT by Annemarie O'Brien (Knopf 2013) What It's About (from the jacket flap): Young Lara is being groomed in the f...

Monday, November 4, 2013

November Natterings

I'm nattering about November, because I have yet again not got a Marvelous Middle Grade Monday to share with you. The reason: I am de...

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