Targeted Age Group:: 9 - 12 Category: Childrens Books - Middle Grade About Dandelion Queen Meets Weeping Willow: For middle-school readers or read aloud with younger children and create an atmosphere where you can guide the human-kindness conversation. A child's kindness can change the world around them. Are children born kindhearted? The Dandelion Queen thinks kindness can be taught, kindness can be learned. Share the wisdom of the Dandelion Queen. Follow Willow as she struggles to … [Read more...]
Buyer’s Guide: Shaky Man by Mark S. Parker
Targeted Age Group:: 10-15 Category: Childrens Books - Middle Grade About Shaky Man: Stay away from Shaky Man. Every kid in the small town of Tonkaway, Texas, knows that. He eats little kids, murdered his wife, and mistreats his dogs, to boot. That’s what they say, anyway. Top doesn’t entirely know what to think about the rumors. He’s too busy settling into his new home, playing baseball and making friends—like Mickey, a black boy who soon becomes his best friend of all. Everything … [Read more...]
Buyer’s Guide: Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader by Peter Guy George
Targeted Age Group:: 9-12 Category: Childrens Books - Middle Grade About Touchdown Tony Crowne and the Mystery of the Missing Cheerleader: A family-friendly sports mystery packed with action and adventure…for the 9 to 12 age group... Tony Crowne is a backup quarterback and aspiring detective who has his share of troubles: He hates the nickname his father gave him, his eighty-pound dog clobbers his mother and grandfather at breakfast and he gets into a fight with the biggest kid in … [Read more...]
Gift Guide: Memoirs of an Ordinary Girl: The Middle-ish Ages by Terri Klaes Harper
Targeted Age Group:: 10-13 Category: Children and Young Adult Books About Memoirs of an Ordinary Girl: The Middle-ish Ages: Set in the time while the ‘80s were fading into the ‘90s and the poofiness of hair and shoulder pads was soon to deflate, this coming of age story retells the experiences of Drew Hotchner, an “extraordinarily ordinary” girl, through her possibly wiser and more honest adult self. Drew struggles not only with the unavoidable awkwardness of being in middle school, but … [Read more...]
