2017 was a great year for dragons, both friendly and fearsome. These great dragon books for kids 9-12 are all wildly imaginative and original, and there’s a book here to suit every fantasy loving kid! What were your young reader’s favorite dragons of 2017?
2017 has been a great year for middle grade fiction! Here are ten of my favorite books so far this year. Five are realistic, five fantastic, and all are great examples of what middle grade books can achieve. Though the grown-ups are still around, the kids in these stories are all growing in confidence and […]
Aventurine comes from a large family of dragons who live in the mountain caves, and in the beginning of the book she is frustrated that they won’t let her do anything. Can she fly outside the cave? Nope. Can she hunt with the older dragons? No way. Not for at least 30 more years, when her […]
2017 is promising a bumper crop of great middle grade novels, and I hope I can find the time to read them all! Here are ten I’m especially looking forward to, a mix of fantasy (winged lions!) and realistic ones that sound especially great that will see you through the end of August. What middle […]