April 17-18 will mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). In 2018, after experiencing increased antisemitism and feeling a need to do something about it, I met Eva Kor, who had survived Auschwitz as a child. Normally all children would have been sent immediately to their deaths in the gas chambers, but because she was a…
Category: Reading Lists: Middle Grade
Middle grade chapter books for kids ages 9 through 14 and including 3rd grade books, 4th grade books, 5th grade books, 6th grade books, and 7th grade books.
16 Children’s Books About Ghana
My kids studied Ghana in second grade and their teachers all wanted to find books that portrayed Ghana as a city because the kids all thought the Ghanaians lived in rural villages. This was more than 15 years ago, and I’m happy to see that there are few books depicting Accra, Ghana’s capital city. I’m…
Children’s Books to Combat Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism): Prejudice, discrimination, vandalism, and/or violence against people who are Jewish. From Ruth Bader Ginsberg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality by Jonah Winter, illustrated by Stacy Innerst There are plenty of books on racism and even skin color, but when I tried to make this list, I had trouble finding books for…
Weird But True World 2023 GIVEAWAY!
My son and I have fond memories of Weird but True books by National Geographic Kids. We read every single one that we could get our hands on. He especially loved the gross ones! Now my son is a senior in high school, but I think he will still enjoy flipping through this newest Weird…
6 Children’s Books About the Berlin Wall
Do you remember where you were when the Berlin Wall fell? It was a big moment in history. I actually have a stronger memory of people who went to Berlin right after it fell and returned with a chunk of the wall as a memento. I didn’t know too much about The Berlin Wall or…
Pippa Park Scavenger Hunt Box GIVEAWAY!
Please welcome my guest author, Erin Yun! She’s back with book two in the bestselling Pippa Park middle grade series about identity, family, friendships, and peer pressure: Pippa Park Crush at First Sight. Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat,…
The Forbidden Island Blog Tour + 7 Book GIVEAWAY to 3 Winners!
Buy | Goodreads | Trailer A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece…