You may remember Alex Gino for his book George about a transgender girl in elementary school. Well now we have a story about an asexual boy in middle school and it is just as sweet.
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Sheets
A short, sweet graphic novel about a girl, a ghost, and a laundromat. It’s a story about a ghost, Wendell, who doesn’t feel welcomed in the ghost world, and a girl, Marjorie, whose mother has passed away and she is trying to keep the family laundromat afloat while her father deals with depression. Marjorie isContinue reading “Sheets”
The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James
I don’t read many middle grade novels, but if they are anything like this one by Ashley Herring Blake, I need to start picking them up. This is a story about Sunny St. James, a twelve year old girl living on an island off the coast of North Carolina, and we start the story withContinue reading “The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James”
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Whether or not you want to cry is irrelevant, Jen Wang is going to make you shed a tear regardless. The story she tells in The Prince and the Dressmaker is one of two people, both struggling in their lots in life for very different reasons. One, a poor seamstress with big dreams but noContinue reading “The Prince and the Dressmaker”
Tunnel Of Bones
In the second installment to Victoria Schwab’s middle grade series about Cassidy Blake, we are taken to Paris, a place full of beauty, history, and ghosts. This story was just as eery and chilling as the first, though I will admit I liked the first book just a tad better. Cass and her parents headContinue reading “Tunnel Of Bones”
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