Ms. Yingling Reads Blog
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Ms. Yingling Reads is a middle grade book blog covering genres like adventure, fantasy, history, humour and more. The blog's focus is on realistic, middle grade fiction, middle grade nonfiction, young adult fiction suitable for ages 11-14, and some pictures reviews.
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12h ago
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Marvelous Middle Grade Monday
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Always in the Middle
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Unleashing Readers
Hashimoto, Meika. Off the Map
November 12, 2024 by Scholastic Press
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
Marlo is excited to go on a backwoods adventure in the Yukon with her mom to start off her summer vacation. The end of the school year has been rough, after her father left to go "find himself" and her best friend, Amos, stopped talking to her for reasons she doesn't understand. When Marlo and her mom get packed up to go on their advenutre, along with her dog, Cheerio ..read more
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1d ago
Thayer, Alex. Happy & Sad & Everything True
November 12, 2024 by Aladdin
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
Dee is having a difficult year in sixth grade. Her best friend, Juniper, is in another class, and they don't have their Snack and Stretch Break together. Dee hasn't made any other friends, so she tries to spend the break in the bathroom, listening to the drip of the water and counting the tiles. After a while, she realizes that she can hear people talking through the grates in the bathroom, and has a pleasant interchange with Harry, who is in her class. Gym is after the snac ..read more
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3d ago
Soontornvat, Christina and Cacao, Joanna (illus.)
The Squad (The Tryout #2) November 12, 2024 by Graphix
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
Even though she didn't make the 8th grade cheerleading squad, Christina is having a good year. She still practices the cheer routines with her good friends Megan and Leanne, has a crush on the very cute Andy, is taking home ec, and is very excited about her new art project, which she is working on with a group. It's sculptures of toes, which seems perfectly reasonable for a middle school art project! She still hangs out with Greg (whom she "loves but doesn ..read more
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4d ago
Deuker, Carl. Shadowed.
November 5, 2024 by Clarion Books
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Nate's family is heavily invested in soccer, and his older sister, Amelia, is working hard to get the attention of college scouts so that she can get a scholarship. This is important, since the family's subway shop business in Salmon Bay, Washington is continually struggling. Both parents are frequently at work, and they get little support from their own parents, one set of which lives in Portugal, and the other set in Missoula. When Nate suffers a bad concussion when he is hit with an errant bal ..read more
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4d ago
Quigley, Emma. Bank
March 8, 2018 by Little Island Books
Copy provided by Young Adult Books Central
Luke, who lives in a town in Ireland, is dealing with the disintegrating finances of his family, which leads to problems for him, like having no internet for schoolwork, forcing him to hunker down in the family bathroom and use his neighbor's connection. When his friend Finn shows up at school with a wad of cash, all of the boys in their group are a bit confused, until Finn tells them about his epiphany in the dentist's chair. All of their classmates desperatelyf want to get tickets to the upc ..read more
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6d ago
Vitalis, Jessica. Unsinkable Cayenne
October 29, 2024 by Greenwillow Books
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
It's 1985, and Cayenne's family has been living in a 1969 camper van, traveling the US. Her father is a Vietnam vet who is on disability, and her mother is a free spirit who doesn't want to be tied down to a conventional lifestyle. However, since the birth of Cayenne's twin siblings, Bear and Sossity, it's been more difficult to maintain this nomadic way of life, and Cayenne's father has gotten a job in a sawmill in Montana. The family is renting a house, and Cayenne is very excited to ..read more
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1w ago
Hudson, Wade and Tate, Don (illus.). The Day Madear Voted
9 July 2024 by Nancy Paulsen Books
Copy provided by Young Adult Books Central
It's 1969, and Charlie and Ralph's mother is very excited that she will get to vote for the first time since the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. Before, Black people were made to provide documentation they didn't have in order to be abel to vote, or to pay a toll tax or even guess the number of jellybeans in a jar! Now, all that is ended. Madear gets dressed up in her best dress and takes the boys to City Hall to vote. It's a bit of a tense time; it wasn't ..read more
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1w ago
It's
Marvelous Middle Grade Monday
at
Always in the Middle
and #IMWAYR day
at
Unleashing Readers
Fox, Janet. The Mystery of Mystic Mountain
October 22, 2024 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
E ARC Provided by Edelweiss Plus
Becca Solway has her summer all planned; she's going to hang out with Kasie and the popular crowd at the beach, date Tommy, and not think about her parents fighting all the time. Instead, her mother whisks her away from Connecticut to Montana for a month at a spa resort. However, when they arrive, they realize t ..read more
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1w ago
Khan, Hena. Like a Boss (Best Wishes #4)
November 12, 2024 by Scholastic Press
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
Maya Amir lives in Washington, D.C. with her parents, older siblings, and Dadi, her grandmother who used to be the head of an environmental protection agency in Pakistan before she came to live with them. When her mom's cousin and daughter come to visit, Maya has to double up with Dadi, and also gets an intriguing package in the mail. It's a sparkly bracelet, and it has a note with it. Soon, she's video chatting with Becca (from Best Wishes), Addie (The Sister Switch), and Lucy (Ti ..read more
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1w ago
Barnett, Mac and Harris, Shawn. The Wrath of the Paperclip
November 5, 2024 by HarperAlley
E ARC provided by Edelweiss Plus
In this third book in the pell mell, absurd-fest that started in The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza and The Soup of Doom, we catch up with the Queen of the Moon and her minions, who are happy to be out and about solving minor problems and don't want to be saving the world. Of course, they are immediately met with a problem: an ancient evil has arisen and only the first cat can stop it! CheckMate, a grammar and spelling assistant, has attained sentience and is determined t ..read more