Tag: middle grade

Holes

A paperback copy of Holes sits next to a dirty trowel. On the cover, there's a lunar-like landscape the top of a boy's head near the bottom. He's wearing a red cap.

This book has been on my shelf for quite some time, and somehow I never felt like picking it up. Maybe the cover was too bland. Maybe the Newbery sticker […]

Hoot

The cover of Carl Hiasssen's Hoot on a cell phone. It shows an owl, with the eyes forming the Os in Hoot.

They call this type of fiction realistic–and I guess it is, if you use “realistic” to mean that any given event in the story could conceivably happen in the world […]

Because of Mr. Terupt

On a cellphone propped in front of two spiral notebooks, the cover of Because of Mr. Terupt shows. It has a blue backpack with the lettering in gold on it.

One of the advantages of tutoring in English is that I sometimes get the chance to read books for young people that I hadn’t heard of before. This one is […]

Flying in a Cage

Cover of Flying in a Cage on a cell phone. A girl floats upward into the sky, as if carried by a helium baloon.

Ivory hears music in everything–in birdsong, and wind chimes, yes, but also in the noise of traffic and the rhythm of a dishwasher. There is also music in her heart, […]