23 Books {A Bottomless Book Bag}

4 Stars | Karen Barnett | 2019 | Christian Historical Fiction | 352 pages | 10 1/2 Hours Audio   Ever Faithful is a story about the workers...

2020 | 288 pages | Grades 4-7   This is an uplifting book despite the fact it is about an orphan named Olive, a sixth-grader, who has to go ...

  2021 | 304 pages | Grades 5-8 This book is such a great read! It is set in 1860 and is about a father and son...and a ghost. 12-year-old S...

1955 | 320 pages | Grades 3-6   This book won the Newbery Award back in 1955. I thought it would be interesting to see what the best literat...

  2022 | 368 pages | Grades 3-7 June and Maybelle and their mother used to live in New York City's Chinatown until they were evicted one...

2020 | 273 pages | Grades 4- 6 Jake Burt wrote a book about a pandemic and a pandemic started. That is pretty wild. This is a science fictio...

  2022 | 288 pages  |  Grades 3-7 Maizy and her mother come back to Last Chance, Minnesota for the summer to help her grandparents until her...

2022 | 144 pages  |  Grades 4-7 The author, Mary Roach, has taken her adult book called Packing for Mars and rewritten it to be appropriate ...

We have lots of great middle-grade books in the library!  Come on down and make a new book friend. Introduce your students to new book title...

Middle-Grade March 2022 Read-a-Thon March is coming soon and so is the Middle-Grade March Read-A-Thon.  It is a challenge led by several &qu...

  2022 | 448 pages  | 8 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-7   I loved book three even more than one and two! I think I have gotten to know the charact...

2021 | 192 pages  | 3.25 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-7 I listened to this book and the narrator was great! It is a story about a father and son....

2021 | 416 pages  | 4.5 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-7   This survival adventure story kept me very engaged. I listened to the audio and it was t...

  2021 | 80 pages  | 1 Hour Audio |  Grades K-3   This is a book for the beginning chapter book reader. The main character is a first-grade ...

I had a lot of favorite middle-grade reads this year.  Let me tell you briefly about them in this post. If I have a more detailed blog post,...

2021 | 256 pages  | 3.5 Hours Audio |  Grades 5-7   Ellie is in middle school and is bulled every day for her weight. It comes not just from...

    2019 | 192 pages  | 4 Hours Audio |  Grades 5-8  Karina Chopra is Indian-American and lives in Texas. Her grandfather comes to live with...

    This is my bookshelf of favorite books in 2021 in no particular order.  I read 105 books this year and my goal was 100. Of course, at le...

2021 | 96 pages  | 1 Hour Audio |  Grades 2-4    I highly recommend this book for the younger elementary group of readers.  It is truly a wi...

2021 | 256 pages  | 5 Hours Audio |  Grades 4-8  Sila and her father are struggling.  Sila's mother had to go back to Turkey because of ...

  5 Stars | Erin Soderberg Downing | 2021 | Realistic Fiction | Grades 3-7  | 256 pages  I think this book is perfect for elementary middle-...

  I will admit that I read a lot more adult books this summer, however, I still ended up with 10 terrific books to recommend for a middle-gr...

This summer, I read 10 books that earned four or more stars!  Since I was on vacation over the summer, I did not keep up with writing blog p...