This week our featured author is Maxine Sylvester, a middle grade Author and Illustrator!!! What made you decide to become an author? I wanted a reason to illustrate, so I created a character, a young reindeer called Ronaldo, and intended to write a short story about him going to flying school. But once I started, …
Alexandria “Xan” Anderson is not your typical 6th grade student. Her days consist of brainstorming, prototyping and building inventions. A genius of the highest order! Setting: Minnesota and Xcel Academy- Xan interacts with her setting in an interesting and limited way. As a child inventor myself, Xan channels my passion for brainstorming, prototyping, inventing and …
What happens to your books when you donate them? I bet you never thought about that before … well, now we have the inside scoop! Little Book is the childlike protagonist (in book form) in this tale that takes the notion of judging a book by its cover and kicks it into overdrive. Little Book …
What if you had a twin, and you both had super powers? How cool would that be? I couldn’t have one main character without the other. My main characters are called Ryan and Jake a set of identical twins who suffer heart-wrenching tragedy but wind up with incredible Super powers. Ryan is the brains of …
Book two in the Step-By-Step series from Paul Breau is a book about sports, but even more, it’s about anxiety, but it’s written in a way that helps kiddos learn how to deal with anxious feelings. Anxiety stinks, especially when you’re the smartest kid in the school. They call Jake Murphy ‘The Brain’ at Central …
Emma, Emily, and Emiliana, identical triplets, fed up with their parents, who never seem to do anything, run away to the circus. Emiliana is generally an easy-going girl, with two exceptions. One is if anyone hurts her sisters, as Toothless Tommy discovered in the second grade (he wasn’t called “Toothless” before he stuck Emily’s hair …
This week our featured author is Eugene Fairfield. He’s relatively new to the Middle Grade world, but he can write a great book! Let’s get on to the interview. What made you decide to become an author? I have always been a storyteller. I think most kids are storytellers. Telling stories is fun. The weird …
Seven-year-old Maya is sad due to all of the changes in her life caused by the coronavirus pandemic. She misses in person school, her classmates, teachers, playdates and family visits. Her 8th birthday is coming up. She is very worried that she won’t be able to celebrate her birthday! Setting: Our Bodies Stay Home, Our …
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If you like zombies, you’re going to love this book, and probably love this series. Johnny Graphic is twelve years old and he’s realized his dream of becoming the youngest news photographer in the Plains Republic. He’s intrepid and feisty and sometimes fearless when he oughtn’t to be. Like any good journalist, he has a …
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Here are this week’s discounted paperbacks on Amazon! … Get updates to this list daily, and see what new books out there might strike your fancy. As always, we don’t know when these books will go back to their regular prices, but when I put them on the site I found them for $6.99 or …
