Marvelous Middle Grade Monday – THE RELUCTANT JOURNAL OF HENRY K. LARSEN by Susin Nielsen

For this week’s Marvelous Middle Grade Monday, I’m going to review another Canadian author with another book set in the lovely lower mainland of BC, where I live. THE RELUCTANT JOURNAL OF HENRY K. LARSEN, by Susin Nielsen. Here’s the blurb from the publisher: Thirteen-year-old Henry’s happy, ordinary life comes to an abrupt halt when … More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday – THE RELUCTANT JOURNAL OF HENRY K. LARSEN by Susin Nielsen

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: YA books for MG readers

The other day, one of my students, who is ELEVEN blithely informed me that she had borrowed FORBIDDEN by Tabitha Suzuma  from the library. I choked a little, blushed purple I’m sure, and as discreetly as I could informed her that the book is VERY explicit. She didn’t seem concerned. She said she’d read until … More Marvelous Middle Grade Monday: YA books for MG readers