MG Book Review: Last Kids on Earth & the Zombie Parade by Max Brallier

Jack, Quint, June, and Dirk are back and ready to kick monster butt in Max Brallier's second installment of the fun THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH series. In ZOMBIE PARADE, Jack and the gang are still cruising around the town of Wakefield in search of the baddies. Survival, snack food, and the occasional photo for Jack's beast book put them on course for another wild adventure. The crew notice that the town's zombies are disappearing [...]

By |2016-09-28T14:29:13-04:00September 28th, 2016|Book Review|0 Comments
Read More

MG Book Review: Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

  Catrina and her family move from Southern California to the coast of Northern California for her younger sister’s health.  Maya has cystic fibrosis and the cleaner, cooler air blowing in from the Pacific Ocean is better for her lungs. Cystic fibrosis is incurable and Cat knows that someday Maya will die of it. Cat doesn’t want to leave her friends and start over at a new middle school and she feels guilty for not [...]

By |2016-09-13T12:00:20-04:00September 26th, 2016|Book Review|0 Comments
Read More

The Writer’s Block: An Interview with Bryce Moore

As Middle Grade Bloggers, we get the opportunity to review books before they hit the shelves. Luckily, we had the privileged of getting Bryce Moore’s book, The Memory Thief, before it made its way to Barnes & Noble. Even better is that the author agreed to answer our questions. Middle Grade Mafia: Each author’s path to becoming a published author is unique. Please share your journey to getting THE MEMORY THIEF on the shelves. Bryce Moore: [...]

By |2016-11-01T14:06:21-04:00September 22nd, 2016|Author Interview|0 Comments
Read More

MG Book Review – The Memory Thief by Bryce Moore

Buckle your seat belts. Sit back. Enjoy the ride. The Memory Thief is a fast paced middle grade adventure that moves like an amusement park ride. The tracks are familiar. There are highs and lows, plenty of excitement and a few chills. But there’s an interesting twist too: it’s about memory. When eleven-year old Benji runs into the Memory Emporium, a tent in his local county fair, he stumbles into much more than a feeble [...]

By |2016-09-20T12:25:29-04:00September 20th, 2016|Book Review|1 Comment
Read More

MG Book Review: The Pursuit of the Pesky Pizza Pirate by Mike Lowery

Book two in the Doodle Adventure series, THE PURSUIT OF THE PESKY PIZZA PIRATE by Mike Lowery proved to be another fun, interactive story that entertained my almost 9 year old son for hours. The first book, THE SEARCH FOR THE SLIMY SPACE SLUGS, introduced a style of story telling where the child is part of the adventure by drawing pictures objects. The Pesky Pizza Pirate adventure follows the same formula of silly storytelling, wonderful doodle [...]

By |2016-10-31T12:28:56-04:00September 16th, 2016|Book Review|0 Comments
Read More

What Type of Revision is Your Novel? by Janice Hardy

Not all revisions are created equal. Some manuscripts are clean first drafts that fell out of your head onto the page like they wanted to be written. Other stories fight you every step of the way and you have to whip them into submission to make the novel work. Still others are stories you wrote and revised countless times until they became a tangled mess (even though you still love that story and swear you’ll [...]

By |2020-04-09T22:00:23-04:00September 14th, 2016|Mo Writing|24 Comments
Read More

MG Book Launch: The Adventurer’s Guide to Great Escapes by Wade Albert White

Happy book birthday to THE ADVENTURER'S GUIDE TO GREAT ESCAPES by Wade Albert White. It seems like a thrilling, funny fantasy for kids and those who are kids at heart. ABOUT THE BOOK: A thrilling debut novel where fantasy and science fiction meet, dragons aren't as innocent as they look, and nothing is quite what it seems. Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope [...]

By |2016-11-01T14:07:02-04:00September 13th, 2016|Book Launch|0 Comments
Read More

Fantasy Research: How much do you need?

Guest Post Contributor: Author, M. Tara Crowl Everyone knows what a genie is, right? The basics, anyway: magical being, oil lamp, three wishes. But when I started writing a middle grade novel about a twelve-year-old genie who wants to be a regular girl, I realized very quickly that there were lots of things I didn’t know about genies. Where did they come from? Did they live in the lamp alone? How did they know what [...]

By |2020-04-09T22:00:37-04:00September 9th, 2016|Mo Writing|0 Comments
Read More

MG Book Release – Eden’s Escape by M. Tara Crowl

Happy Book Birthday to EDEN"S ESCAPE by M. Tara Crowl. Eden's Escape is the second book in the Eden of the Lamp series. These two books are marvelous adventure stories for middle grade girls. The idea of a girl genie who wants her own wish to come true is a delightful idea. Eden wants to live outside of her beautiful bottle and be a regular girl. She makes all kinds of unsettling discoveries but builds strong friendships along the way. She [...]

By |2016-09-07T16:04:16-04:00September 6th, 2016|Book Launch|0 Comments
Read More

MG Book Review: A Most Magical Girl by Karen Foxlee

Annabel Grey knows she’s not supposed to look into puddles. Her mother forbids it. She can’t help herself. The terrifying images she sees in them are mesmerizing. What is happening to this prim and proper Victorian young lady? It’s magic of course! She is a most magical girl. She doesn’t know its magic. Her mother has kept her magical past from her and sent her to a Victorian finishing school. But when her mother is [...]

By |2016-09-07T16:05:01-04:00September 2nd, 2016|Book Review|0 Comments
Read More
Go to Top