Middle Grade Reviews, Part One

We know you’ve been missing browsing our shelves and discovering a book that wasn’t on your radar. So, we’ll be sharing some newer middle grade releases throughout the week.
 
Give us a call at 503-954-2354 if you want any of them. And have your kids leave reviews in the comments of good books they’ve read recently.

The Newspaper Club by Beth Vrabel
 
Cub reporter Nellie Murrow is on the case when a series of theft and vandalism rock her town of Bear Creek. It’ll take all her journalistic skills to solve the mystery in this new mystery series inspired by Nellie Bly herself.
 
For fans of: Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova, The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart, and Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

Fins by Randy Wayne White
 
Poachers are endangering the shark population to use their fins in soup. It’ll be up to the newly formed Sharks Inc. to make sure they don’t get away with it. Will the kids succeed in their mission? Or have they bitten off more than they can chew?
 
For fans of: The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty, Ali Cross by James Patterson, and Science Comics: Sharks by Joe Flood

Can You See Me? by Libby Scott ad Rebecca Westcott
 
Inspired by Libby’s real life experiences, this moving middle grade novel explores Tally trying to fit in without letting her autism completely define who she is.
 
For fans of: Wonder by R. J. Palacio, Rules by Cynthia Lord, and Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine