I love novels that amuse, divert and make you think and genuinely feel. The five books for young people that I’ve selected all have these qualities in common.
Browsing: Nancy Paulsen Books
We’ve picked 11 new middle grade books that we think are the some of the best new books for preteens and tweens that release during the month of April.
Orit Bergman is an illustrator and a writer of children’s books, including The Chameleon that Saved Noah’s Ark. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions and won numerous awards.
It’s always difficult to narrow down the teetering pile of “Books I Loved” and the tottering pile of “Books to be Read” to a manageable number. Here are just a few middle grade novels author Sarah Dooley loved, and a few more she’s looking forward to reading.
Sweet Home Alaska, by Carole Estby Dagg, is an exciting pioneering story, based on actual events, and introduces readers to a fascinating chapter in American history, when FDR set up a New Deal colony in Alaska to give loans and land to families struggling during the Great Depression.
This month, Girl to Girl: Honest Talk About Growing Up and Your Changing Body (Chronicle Books), a must-have for every girl navigating her way through the preteen years, is The Children’s Book Review’s best selling middle grade book.
It’s true TCBR readers are fans of Greek myths! That’s why, this month, the National Geographic Treasury of Greek Mythology is The Children’s Book Review’s best selling middle grade book.
This month, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 1, by Jeff Kinney, is The Children’s Book Review’s best selling middle grade book.
This month, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat, by Dave Shelton, is still The Children’s Book Review’s best selling middle grade book. And we’re very happy to add the very popular Kid President’s Guide to Being Awesome and The Terrible Two to our selection from the nationwide best selling middle grade books, as they appear on The New York Times.
February is African American History Month. Sharing these books with young readers comes with the responsibility to discuss … progress towards equality.