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Everlasting Nora, by Marie Miranda Cruz, for MMGM

10DecemberSuzanne10 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

Hello and happy December! Whatever holidays you celebrate, I hope your home is merry and bright and your time includes a cozy corner with books. Today’s spotlight will be my one and only for this month. Between travel, holidays, and not one but two big book deadlines–to my agent and publisher, respectively–over the next few

Book of a Thousand Days, by Shannon Hale, for MMGM

26NovemberSuzanne10 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving week! Mine could have been meh, since my sweet teen wasn’t feeling well and had to go into the infusion center at the hospital on Wednesday to get an IV slow-dripped in. However (and I hope this doesn’t make me sound shallow…) early in the visit my

Full Cicada Moon, by Marilyn Hilton, for MMGM

5NovemberSuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

It was probably pretty obvious that I found Circus Mirandus to be gush-worthy, and while Full Cicada Moon is very different, it’s every bit as easy to love on and to sing it songs of praise. It also felt to me in some inexplicable way an appropriate spotlight for November. A time of change, a

Circus Mirandus, by Cassie Beasley, for MMGM

22OctoberSuzanne11 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

You guys, this book was so great! I heard about it from several of the MMGM and #MGlitchat crowd, but it stayed on my TBR pile so long it nearly became a permanent fixture. Then when I did pick it up and started reading, I had trouble at first getting into the story because my

The Boy Who Knew Too Much, by Commander S. T. Bolivar III, for MMGM

8OctoberSuzanne14 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

If you were one of those I, um, faked out with an email alert that this post went up days ago only to have it later disappear on you–sorry! I’ve had a persistent sinus and ear infection, and wasn’t entirely cognizant of my choices. Thankfully I’m feeling much better now! <3 I discovered The Boy

Falling In, by Frances O’Roark Dowell, for MMGM

24SeptemberSuzanne14 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

I swear to you, I am not deliberately making a study of books where the narrator speaks directly to the reader! I was knowingly choosing fairy tale-ish books for a little while and perhaps that opens the door to direct narrator communication…but I’d have to make a deliberate study in order to know for sure.

The Tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo, for MMGM

10SeptemberSuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

Sometimes you hear about books for so long, it begins to feel you must have read them because everyone has read them…so you must have too, right? And then you try to remember a single detail from the book, and it turns out you can only remember what others have said. Kate DiCamillo‘s The Tale

You Wish: The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff, by Jason Lethcoe, for MMGM

20AugustSuzanne10 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

Today’s spotlight is on You Wish, which is the first in the series of The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff–which is kind of a mouthful to write, but fun to say! This story is intentionally a bit preposterous from the beginning, letting you know from the outset that you’re in for a Charlie in the

The Penderwicks At Last, by Jeanne Birdsall, for MMGM

6AugustSuzanne10 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

Today’s Spotlight is on the fifth of the Penderwicks books! I’ll try to keep my spotlight relatively spoiler-free, but given how deep into the series this is, if you haven’t read them you may want to back up and take a look at my spotlight on the first in the seriesÂ instead of reading on here.

The Very Little Princess, by Marion Dane Bauer, for MMGM

23JulySuzanne12 CommentsMarvelous Middle Grades, The Bookshelf

The Very Little Princess is so very pink–and the version I had was MUCH more pink!–that I almost didn’t pick it up. Nothing against that particular color, but it’s not something I’ve ever identified with or felt was a fit for me. Once I did pick it up it took me several weeks to read

Suzanne Warr

Narrative designer, game designer, author

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