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Much Ado About Middle Grade
When we set out to write a few pages about this issue’s centennial mini-theme of middle grade, we were somewhat daunted, and with good reason. We’ve said this before, but — it’s a huge topic, and one we’ve covered extensively throughout our hundred years. Our first recommended booklists, in October...
Appreciating the arts
From arts-focused summer camps to in-school art shows and performances, the following seven middle-grade and middle-school novels depict the value of arts as means of self-expression, friendship-making, and...vampire fighting?! See also our Guide/Reviews Database dance booklists for primary, intermediate, and older readers as well as our theater novels booklists for...
Sports and struggles
The five middle-grade protagonists in these selections (a mix of novels, graphic novel, and graphic memoir) are all passionate about a particular athletic activity. But they’re also experiencing struggles and/or setbacks in their personal lives. While practice doesn’t always make perfect, their beloved sports help teach these kids how to...
Where history and biography meet
The following six nonfiction books for middle-grade readers merge the lines between history book and biography to create compelling works of narrative nonfiction. See also Tanya Lee Stone’s September/October Horn Book Magazine article “The Art of Visual Storytelling in Long-Form Nonfiction,” including her upcoming YA title Peace Is a Chain...
School-set comics
Comics do belong at school — and many of them, including the following graphic novels and graphic memoirs for middle graders and middle schoolers, even take place there. See also Guide/Reviews Database subject: Graphic novels; “Middle-Grade Graphic Novels Make Good”; and the Graphic Novels tag at Hbook.com. Other Boys by...
Asian/Pacific American contemporary realism
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, celebrating people in the United States with ancestral ties to the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Here are six works of realistic fiction for middle-graders and middle-schoolers that grapple with identity in engaging, often entertaining, and relatable ways....
When Failure Is Not an Option: Connecting the Dots with STEM
A few years ago, I was asked to give the keynote address as part of a daylong STEM workshop for middle-grade science teachers. I suggested inviting a NASA specialist for a separate virtual session. It wasn’t the first time I’d done that. While conducting a session on planets for fourth...
Middle-grade-and-up for Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. The following new books for middle-graders and middle-schoolers, all written by Indigenous creators, offer variety and depth in their depictions of Native characters and lives. See also Five Questions for Thomas King about Borders; reviews of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States...
Memorable middle graders and middle schoolers
The following fictional characters contend with school, family, friendship, and more, in ways both realistic and relatable. See also Five Questions for Linda Sue Park about The One Thing You’d Save and (for slightly younger readers) author Jordan Sonnenblick’s memoir The Boy Who Failed Show and Tell. Being Clem [Finding...
Publishers' Preview: Middle-Grade: Five Questions for Hena Khan
This interview originally appeared in the January/February 2021 Horn Book Magazine as part of the Publishers’ Previews: Middle-Grade, an advertising supplement that allows participating publishers a chance to each highlight a book from its current list. They choose the books; we ask the questions. Sponsored by In Amina’s Song, sequel...
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