An instant classic! Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead bring us an unforgettable story about the meaning of friendship and family. It’s been five years since Livy visited her grandmother in Australia. Not surprisingly, everything looks different. Her grandmother seems disappointed Livy doesn’t remember things. She worries Livy is growing up …
We love celebrating books here at the Mafia! I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Tania Unsworth about her book BRIGHTWOOD. Middle Grade Mafia: What was your inspiration for BRIGHTWOOD? Tania Unsworth: I’ve always been fascinated by the way children can normalize any situation – however strange – simply because they …
Home Alone meets Coraline Eleven year-old Daisy Fitzjohn longs to see the world. She’s never been off the grounds of Brightwood Hall. She lives there with her eccentric mother who survived a family tragedy, and some peculiar friends, a talking rat named Tar, a topiary horse and a ghost of …
Children make peculiar ghosts. They don’t always haunt like they are supposed to! When Tessa’s family moves to Chicago her mood matches the gray skies. She’s sad because she left her best friend behind, nervous about starting a new school and dreading living in their old house. It turns out …
Congratulations you’ve finished your manuscript and are neck deep in the revision trenches! By now, you are very familiar with your story and it looks great to you, but don’t fall for this trap. No matter how great you are at grammar and spelling, proofreading your own work can still …
*This book isn’t hitting shelves until May 8th, but you can pre-order this gem now! Like time travel without the machine. Intrigued? Josie and Alec live in the same house 100 years apart! When they communicate by use of a spirit board they form an unusual friendship. Can the world …
Can you trust your own shadow? Emmeline is a shadow weaver. That means she can shape and control shadows, all shadows except for one, her own. Emmeline names it Dar and treats it like a best friend. It is her only friend. Other children are afraid of her. Dar …
I interviewed Susan Adrian earlier this week about her writing process, inspiration, etc. Read all about it here. A magic Russian Nutcracker sweeps Georgie right off her ballet dancing feet in Nutcracked! For as long as they can remember, Georgie and her best friend Kaitlyn have dreamed of getting the part …
As part of the new Middle Grade Mafia series, Mafia 4-1-1, we give you key information (the 411 you could say) by asking four questions to one author to celebrate the release of one of their books. Get it, 4-1-1? Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Susan Adrian about …
So good you will read it in one sitting! The word haunted means different things. It’s 1919 and the members of Henry’s (Henrietta’s) family are haunted. Her mother is haunted by grief. Henry’s brother recently died in a fire. She’s bed-ridden with depression. Her father is haunted by anger. He …
