This week’s Summerville Reads picks include Beth Vrabel’s middle-grade caper, Neil Shea’s Arctic reporting and Adam Johnson’s ...

The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the ...

In 2023, I tweeted about the long lengths of recently published middle grade books. The tweet went viral, and I was invited to write for Publisher’s Weekly to expand on my concerns. I said that while ...

Do your kids love magical realism middle grade books? Magical realism books for tweens are realistic (ish) stories with magical elements. And it’s not just for Latin American literature, either. Since ...

Preus, who lives in Duluth, is the bestselling author of the Newbery Honor book “Heart of a Samurai” and other books for young readers, including “West of the Moon” and the Enchanted Lake trilogy. She ...

Beware ninth-graders at Stephan Pastis’ book event. They might like his famous comic strip, “Pearls Before Swine.” But for his new book, he fears they would sit arms-crossed and stone-faced, ...

The middle grade years are often called the golden age of reading, a time when kids connect fiercely with characters and stories. Some of the all-time bestsellers in children’s literature (think Harry ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Afoma Umesi, who blogs about middle grade reading, about what new books may keep kids reading this summer. Kids across the country are heading into a well-deserved summer ...

Alien Summer, book 1 in the Area 51 Interns middle grade series by James S. Murray and Carsen Smith, is about a kids interning at Area 51 who have to fight aliens who escape. Of the series’ ...

Yen Press' middle-grade imprint JY will release prose novels selected from Kadokawa's Tsubasa Bunko label, which has held the top share in children's books in Japan for the last ten years. Through ...

The events of this year—a global pandemic, a reckoning with racist violence and oppression, a tumultuous presidential election—have touched everyone’s lives, children and teenagers included. And there ...

A new report from Circana BookScan provides more detail on the slowing print sales of middle grade books. Book sales for children 9–12 have been soft for several years and the new report showed that ...