middle grade fiction
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I’m Going to Camp!!!
Camp NaNoWriMo is only a few short days away, and I’m excited! For those not in the know, Camp NanoWrimo is the love child of NanoWriMo, a time away from the vigorous expectation of the elder namesake and it’s 50,000 words within a single month of craziness. My story idea is a new one that Read more
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Children of the Planes
The Kindle Edition is Now Available for Pre-Order Maybe it is his video game withdrawal or the fact that he is not used to being outside for such lengthy periods of time, but Zane finds himself under constant surveillance of an alien named Jax. Jax never stops talking, trying to convince Zane that it is Read more
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Dear Children, You’re Fired…Or I’m Fired?
For weeks now, I have been trying to get my kids to read my official revised draft of Children of Planes… The youngest started to read it. To make it official, she even asked that I draft up a contract of what my expectations were of her to be a professional reader: Note the deadline Read more
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Middle Grade Fiction: LGBTQ+ Community
In honor of Pride month, Scholastic listed a series of books that promote the LGBTQ+ community within middle grade fiction. It is important that members of these communities are valued and represented within our literature, especially Middle Grade Fiction where adolescents are at the cusp of displaying and understanding their identities. In Children Read more
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon
A sacrifice to witches, a bog monster, and a snuggle bug dragon. Barnhill uses these elements to spin a tale of a young girl Luna, trying to cope with irreversible consequences of not sticking to a standard diet of milk and pureed peas. This week the kids and I finished Kelly Barnhill’s “The Girl Read more
