MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
Welcome to the debut issue of Middle Shelf: Cool Reads for Kids. I am thrilled to be a part of this amazing new endeavor. Good books have the power to entertain, to spark imaginations, and to transform lives, which is precisely why Middle Shelf came into being. We want to connect middle grade readers with the very best books, whether they are on the best-seller lists, published by small and indie presses, or self-published. What will you find in this issue? First, Margaret Peterson Haddix, author of many popular books for kids and teens, gives us a glimpse into the latest book in her The Missing series. Gilbert Ford and Nicole de las Heras discuss how they worked together to create the cover for Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein, who is interviewed in this issue as well.
Welcome to the debut issue of Middle Shelf: Cool Reads for Kids. I am thrilled to be a part of this amazing new endeavor. Good books have the power to entertain, to spark imaginations, and to transform lives, which is precisely why Middle Shelf came into being. We want to connect middle grade readers with the very best books, whether they are on the best-seller lists, published by small
and indie presses, or self-published. What will you find in this issue? First, Margaret Peterson Haddix, author of many popular books for kids and teens, gives us a glimpse into the latest book in her The Missing series. Gilbert Ford and Nicole de las Heras discuss how they worked together to create the cover for Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein, who is interviewed in this issue as well.
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BOOK<br />
Seven Moon Circus:<br />
The Adventures of a<br />
Wild Boy in a Space<br />
Traveling Circus<br />
by Randy Morrison<br />
Keep your action<br />
boys excited<br />
about reading with<br />
Seven Moon Circus:<br />
The Adventures of a<br />
Wild Boy in a Space<br />
Traveling Circus.<br />
Sample chapters and Educator’s Common Core<br />
Guide: 7mc.com.<br />
www.7mc.com<br />
Available at Amazon.<br />
Girl Unmoored<br />
by Jennifer Gooch Hummer<br />
Set in Maine, 1985, Apron<br />
Bramhall has come<br />
unmoored. Her mother has<br />
died, her father is about to<br />
marry a wicked witch and<br />
her best friend has dumped<br />
her for a newer model. Then<br />
she meets “Jesus”—the actor who plays him<br />
in Jesus Christ Superstar—and his boyfriend.<br />
These three unlikely friends form an unbreakable<br />
bond not even death can separate.<br />
“Girl Unmoored may be the undiscovered young<br />
adult novel of the summer.”<br />
—Entertainment Weekly<br />
www.jennifergoochhummer.com<br />
Available at Amazon, BarnesandNoble,<br />
iTunes and other online retailers.<br />
Black Pool—A Jack<br />
Flynn Adventure<br />
by C.H. Garbutt<br />
Helpless to save<br />
his mum from<br />
drowning off the coast<br />
of County Kerry,<br />
Ireland, and just<br />
barely surviving<br />
himself, young Jack<br />
Flynn is rescued<br />
by a mysterious<br />
pair of webbed hands reaching up from the<br />
ocean depths. Jack recalls nothing of his<br />
narrow escape until years later when he meets<br />
Lillay, a young teenage mermaid, at the Dublin<br />
docklands, where his past and future meet.<br />
www.blackpoolthebook.wordpress.com<br />
Available at Amazon.<br />
Flying with<br />
a Broken Wing<br />
by Laura Best<br />
est creates<br />
“Ban authentic<br />
portrait of post-<br />
Second World War<br />
life in a rural Nova<br />
Scotia community.<br />
Her descriptions of<br />
Saturday nights at the<br />
bootlegger’s house,<br />
women gossiping at the general store and a<br />
dance at the local hall capture a strong sense of<br />
time and place.”<br />
—Atlantic Books Today<br />
www.lauraabest.wordpress.com<br />
Available Amazon and Indigo.
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