#Middle grade books

[transbookoftheday]

Leave Trans Kids Alone

Inspired by David Tennant's "Leave Trans Kids Alone You Absolute Freaks" shirt, here are some amazing trans middle grade and picture books you should read:

Book titles:

99% Chance of Magic by Amy Eleanor Heart, Abbey Darling and Luna Merbruja

Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston by Esme Symes-Smith

Jamie by L.D. Lapinski

Camp QUILTBAG by Nicole Melleby and A. J. Sass

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

Moonflower by Kacen Callender

Joy, to the World by Kai Shappley and Lisa Bunker

Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Girl Haven by Lilah Sturges, Meaghan Carter and Joamette Gil

Obie Is Man Enough by Schuyler Bailar

Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino

The House That Whispers by Lin Thompson

Both Can Be True by Jules Machias

The Tea Dragon Festival by K. O'Neill

Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff

Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee

The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth Lapensee, KC Oster and Aarin Dokum

Skating on Mars by Caroline Huntoon

Tally the Witch by Molly Landgraff

The Beautiful Something Else by Ash Van Otterloo

The Deep & Dark Blue by Niki Smith

The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester and Kevin Sylvester

The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

The One Who Loves You the Most by medina

Me and My Dysphoria Monster by Laura Kate Dale and Hui Qing Ang

When Aidan Became A Brother by Kyle Lukoff and Kaylani Juanita

Calvin by J.R. Ford, Vanessa Ford and Kayla Harren

#trans books #middle grade books #picture books #trans book of the day #queer books #transmasc #transfem #nonbinary #david tennant #good omens #leave trans kids alone

[checkoutmybookshelf]

I mean...this combination of depth and toilet humor is literally Shakespearean, so A+ for Eoin Colfer.

#eoin colfer #artemis fowl #mulch diggums #middle grade books #middle grade sci fi #middle grade fantasy #middle grade fiction #books and reading #books & libraries #books and novels #books

[theartofangirling]

part 1 of the 2023 version of this post: middle grade books!

part 2: young adult books | part 3: adult books

this is a very incomplete list, as these are only books I've read and enjoyed. not all books are going to be for all readers, so I'd recommend looking up synopses and content warnings. feel free to message me with any questions about specific representation!

list of books under the cut ⬇️

the tea dragon society by k. o'neill

mooncakes by suzanne walker and wendy xu

the witch boy by molly knox ostertag

the deep and dark blue by niki smith

the magic fish by trung le nguyen

the hidden oracle by rick riordan

strangeworlds travel agency by l.d. lapinski

ellie engle saves herself by leah johnson

ivy aberdeen's letter to the world by ashley herring blake

hurricane season by nicole melleby

ana on the edge by a.j. sass

the ship we built by lexie bean

the pants project by cat clarke

#lgbtq+ books #queer books #middle grade books #lgbtq+ kids books #book recommendations #book flow chart #gay books #part 1 of 3! #mp

[kayleerowena]

THE WITCH'S WINGS & OTHER TERRIFYING TALES, an 'are you afraid of the dark?' graphic novel with three stories based on hispanic urban legends, comes out october 3rd 2023!!!

kick off the halloween season & ✨ preorder it now ✨ if fun, spooky middle-grade horror is your jam!

i'm so excited for people to get to read this book; everyone involved put so much love into it, and i can't wait to hear what people think once it's out in the world. to celebrate how close the release date is, here are a few preview pages from my segment of the book, the tale of the haunting of bus #13!

#are you afraid of the dark #are you afraid of the dark? #the witch's wings and other terrifying tales #ayaotd #horror art #middle grade horror #middle grade books #middle grade graphic novel #horror comics #horror graphic novel #tehlor kay mejia #junyi wu #alexis hernandez #justin hernandez #this is the first time a book with my name on the cover will be in actual bookstores and i may be losing my mind about it slightly #i'm very excited!!! i hope y'all love this book as much as i do!!!!!!

[therobishow]

I am once again calling for book rants. It was so much fun the last time, and I crave more.

Do you have a long standing grudge against a book you read in middle school? Have you gotten swept up by hype only to find that everyone lied to you and the book is trash? Do you burn with rage over the way an author portrayed your favorite mythology or folklore? Is there a book or series that you once loved, but now makes you cringe every time you think about it?

Do you want to vent all of it out to someone who won't judge you, or argue with you, but will simply accept all your feelings as their own?

Hi, that person is me. Send me an ask, anonymous or not, and tell me everything you've wanted to say. Offer me your anger, your frustration, your hatred. I will hold it for you. I will take it into my heart and make it my own.

It can be any genre you want, any demographic. I will accept it all. Even if James Patterson gets involved again. (I'm not scared of you, James!!)

#literature #books #ya fiction #ya fantasy #ya dystopia #fiction #Reading #middle grade books #adult fantasy #science fiction #fantasy #literary fiction

[franticvampirereads]

Two mini reviews for the price of one today! 😊

Sandry’s Book:

It’s been a very, very long time since I last reread this book and it did not disappoint. It was like coming home and snuggling under a warm blanket. There were so many things that I had forgotten! But getting to meet these characters again? It was so much fun! I loved getting reacquainted with all the kids, and somehow at 30-years-old I feel like I connected more with them than I did when I was 12 or 15. I can also see where my love of found family’s came from. I love the way the Pierce wrote the kids because they got to be actual kids and learn and make mistakes and grow into who they’re meant to be. Sandry’s book is getting a solid five stars, both for the nostalgia and for being a fantastic book that really stands the test of time.

Tris’s book:

Tris’s Book has always been one of my favorites in this series. It’s were these kids really get their start as actual mages and dig into their studies more. I love that they have these mentors that are with them every step of the way and are encouraging them in everything that they do. It’s really nice, especially in a YA book where most adults are usually absent. I just really loved being back in this universe and I could gush about it endlessly, but I won’t. This is getting a solid five stars!

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

PopSugar 2023: a book you read more than 10 years ago

PopSugar 2023: a book you wish you could read for the first time again

#circle of magic #tamora pierce #booklr #book review #reading #books #read #mini book review #book #bookish #bookworm #lgbtq+ books #queer books #middle grade books #fantasy books #high fantasy books

[wizard-legs]

Sketch of a solar flairy hanging out on a branch

Field Paintings 1. Field Painting 2.

#my art #art #illustration #fantasy illustration #fantasy art #fantasy #fairy #fairies #kids lit art #middle grade books #field guide #sketch #pencil sketch #notebook

[desdasiwrites]

– Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

#book quote of the day #ray bradbury #the halloween tree #halloween reads #Tom Skelton # Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud # Joe Pipkin #classic literature #middle grade books #book recommendations

[cheshirelibrary]

One of my favorite episodes in  season 1 of “Ted Lasso” is episode 3, “Trent Crimm: The Independent.” In it, Coach Lasso is working hard to connect to his new football team and inspire them to make some essential changes in how they interact with one another. In order to accomplish that, he gives them all books that he hand-picks for their various needs and personalities. To surly, gruff team captain Roy Kent, who resents Coach Lasso’s upbeat attitude, Lasso gifts a copy of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.

In one of my favorite scenes in the entire first season, Roy is reading the book aloud to his niece when he comes across a passage that illuminates why Coach Lasso gifted him the book in the first place. “Fuck!” he yells when the realization hits, because he now understands what he needs to do next in order to bring his team together.

It’s one of the most relatable moments of the show for me, and I think it speaks to the subtle, quiet power of children’s books. Adults tend to view books written for children as  childish or just silly entertainment, but those of us who write for kids (and teens) know that there is usually a lot more going on underneath the surface.

The value in returning to these books as adults is in reminding ourselves what it’s like to be a kid, to gain a different perspective on the world, and to expand our understanding of different experiences and communities. And, of course, to be entertained.

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Click through to read the full article.

#cheshire library #middle grade books #ted lasso #brett goldstein #a wrinkle in time

[patticalkosz]

An innocent ladybug? Or the reincarnation of Han Solo?

With illustrator @xiaostudio17 on Instagram.

#olaf and essex #am querying #illustration #digital illustration #digital art #comics #web comics #cartoons #web cartoons #books #bookstagram #bookblr #new books #book worm #fantasy books #middle grade #middle grade books #middle grade fiction #middle grade fantasy #childrens books

[the-emblematic]

I’ve seen a handful of posts like this going around that were missing some of my favorites so I’m making my own

reblog to inflict your followers with nostalgia

#books #middle grade books

[gabibookworm]

Here's some beautiful covers of upcoming books! 📚

#booklr #books #diverse books #ya books #bookworm #mg books #lgbtq books #ya fantasy #mg fantasy #ya horror #graphic novel #middle grade books

[checkoutmybookshelf]

From Criminial Mastermind to Fairy Tale Hero: The End of Artemis Fowl

Here we are, everyone: The final Artemis Fowl book. It has been a journey revisiting the first series I was old enough to follow and fandom, and it's wild to me that we're finally at the end. Especially since I picked up the first Artemis Fowl book in late elementary school (I'm genuinely not sure when though, because the first book came out in April of 2001, when I was in fifth grade and it's very possible I didn't pick the book up until sixth grade, which would have put me at 11, same age as Artemis in that first book) and the final book came out in 2012, when I was in my junior year of undergrad. So at that point, Artemis, Holly, and Butler had been part of my life for a long time. And now here we are, to say goodbye to them again after this leisurely re-listen/read. Let's talk Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian.

Artemis grew and changed so much across eight books, which makes sense because holy cow do kids change a LOT between 11 and 15. We get so busy living life in those years that we don't really think about how much we truly learn and grown between prepubescence and full-on teenagerhood, but that is a time of massive change, and I think that more than anything else really justifies how Artemis goes from a chillingly vampiric child to a teenager with enough compassion and empathy to understand that sometimes the right choice is a heroic self-sacrifice for the people that your people (both humans and the people, in this case) love. Artemis also did a really interesting version of that thing so many teenagers do where they hit a point where they can't just phone in their abilities anymore and have to actually put effort in, but for Artemis it was emotional rather than intelligence. And yet even when making said heroic sacrifice, we have the absolutely beautiful callback to the end of book one, where Artemis drugs his mother, Butler, and Juliet to keep them from being harmed by the bio-bomb. To stop Holly from preventing him from stopping Opal, Artemis sedates her. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Except where best villain ever Opal Koboi is concerned. By this book, Opal is so disconnected from reality that she is willing to risk literally going nuclear to escape captivity, and then just...casually sparks off the apocalypse because if there is one thing our girl wants, it's to be Empress of the World, and if that means using spirit zombies and an ancient fairy doomsday device, then I guess it's a good thing she's already versed in black magic. Or something. Opal is fully and completely off the rails at this point, and if you catch yourself referring to yourself as "Mommy" in reference to the spirits of several scores of ancient elven berserkers who would--barring a geas--murder you for it, you might want to stop and take a long, hard look at your life choices. And maybe don't forget that you've cloned yourself, because that's the kind of little detail that can completely ruin your chances of being Empress of the World.

Holly quite possibly deserves every medal that exists for managing to drag Artemis's extremely out-of-shape butt through increasingly dangerous and high-stakes missions while navigating fairy politics and *checks notes* breaking up with her commanding officer after a disastrous date where they both got kicked out of a crunchball match. (And once again...HOW DARE Colfer leave this in exposition and not show us this amazing disaster of a date!?!?) Holly has also just been through the emotional wringer with Artemis and every time he decided to double-cross or lie by omission to bring off a plan and every time he does something infuriatingly human that drives up her blood pressure and yet makes the mission succeed. And then she has to sit there and watch him die to save humans and fairies. Seriously, the fact that Holly Short is a functional being rather than a hot mess is nothing short of a miracle.

And then we come to Butler. Long-suffering, super fucking over it, broken-hearted Domovoi Butler. Artemis got DAMN lucky that the whole "put my spirit in a clone of me" plan panned out, because if it hadn't, Holly was entirely correct: Butler would never have recovered. Butler and Opal might be my two favorite characters in the entire series at this point. That's not where I started--for a very long time, Holly was my favorite character, and Commander Root still gets an honorable mention--but as a grown-ass adult (I'm not doing that math for you, if you want to know that I'm old, you do the math), I cannot escape how dedicated, competent, kind, and just AWESOME Butler is. I feel like the vibe here is very similar to the thing that happens when you watch Sound of Music as a kid and either Maria or one of the kids is your favorite character, but when you come back to it as an adult, Captain Von Trapp is EVERYTHING (RIP Christopher Plummer, we loved you). Butler has a similar vibe but in a different genre.

So, I was an adult and had enough experience of watching fandoms to see the mixed reactions to this book being released. People were sad the series was ending, people were disappointed because the series had seemingly drifted, and people loved it. My reaction was pretty mixed, because I had a lot going on, I knew there were good things here but I was also kind of missing the heisty, criminal mastermind vibes, but also OPAL KOBOI. So I was pretty unsure how to feel about this book when it came out, and then I didn't reread it for literal years because I went to grad school.

Returning to this book now, I have suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch respect for how Colfer tied up the series and how he pulled off a new Irish mythological cycle, but updated for the twenty-first century. I have enough life on me to appreciate the changes Artemis goes through, and enough literature degrees to have a new and deeply fulfilling perspective on the series structure. Last Guardian is not my favorite book of the series--it's not even in the top three--but I think that what it does is genuinely impressive and I love how you can finish this book and go instantly back into the OG Artemis Fowl. The story does not, strictly speaking, have to end. And that is a vibe I can 100% get behind.

I deeply love the Artemis Fowl books, and I cannot recommend the series enough. They have so many strengths, are incredibly well-written, and they live rent-free in my head even now as an adult.

#artemis fowl #eoin colfer #artemis fowl the last guardian #artemis fowl and the last guardian #domovoi butler #holly short #opal koboi #children's literature #children's books #books and reading #books & libraries #books and novels #books #book recommendations #middle grade sci fi #middle grade books #middle grade fantasy #middle grade fiction

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2023 ~

#30: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw

At the crisp, inky hour of midnight, Jack and I are married atop Spiral Hill in the Death's Door Cemetery.

Rating: 3.5/5

#long live the pumpkin queen #shea ernshaw #the nightmare before christmas #2023 reading list #books #book aesthetic #book moodboard #middle grade books #sally skellington #jack skellington #nightmare before christmas #what happens after #self confidence #finding self confidence #dreams #sleep #the sandman

[kayleerowena]

i'll be at dreamers & make-believers in baltimore next saturday (october 7th) to celebrate the release of THE WITCH'S WINGS AND OTHER TERRIFYING TALES! 💚

if you're not in baltimore, you can still preorder the book & support your local bookstores here, or get a copy wherever graphic novels are sold after it comes out on october 3rd!

#baby's first book launch event!! i'm very excited and also kind of terrified so please come thru #the witch's wings and other terrifying tales #are you afraid of the dark #graphic novel #horror graphic novel #middle grade horror #middle grade books #baltimore

[doll-princesse]

In related news to my new Anne doll, look at these modern Anne comic books!

“Anne starts to develop more-than-friends feelings for Diana.”

OMG, “Anne: an Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (Sort of)” by Kathleen Gros has Anne canonically, non-subtextually crushing on Diana.

This one, “Anne of West Philly” by Ivy Noelle Weir and illustrated by Myisha Haynes, looks cool too.

I want to get and read both!!

#anne of green gables #ningyou posting #books #middle grade books