On Hold at TPPL

 

All as of 8/27/2024

Atkins - Don't Let the Devil Ride   #6 on 3   (2)

Center - The Rom-Commers    #44 on 10    (4.4)

Hazelwood - Not In Love   #20 on 15    (1.3)

Johnson - Death at Morning House    #24 on 5    (4.5)

King - 11/22/63    #16 on 5     (3.2)

Mandanna - The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches    #59 on 6    (9.8)

Mayne - Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder   #14 on 2    (7)

Miller - Norma Dean's Little Library of Banned Books   #2 on 5   (2.5)

Moore - The God of the Woods   #118 on 20     (5..9)

Picoult - By Any Other Name    #131 on 15     (8.5)

Poston - The Dead Romantics   #21 on 3    (7)

Robotham - Storm Child   #2 on 2    (1)

Sullivan - The Cliffs    #46 on 8    (5.7)

Next to get to me should be:

     Robotham, Hazelwood, Atkins, Miller, King

Book Girls' Guide - Read Around the USA

 January, 2023:  

• Books Set in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• I chose Massachusetts and read Things You Save in a Fire  by Katherine Center

February, 2023:  

• Books Set in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming
• I chose Wyoming and read The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

March, 2023

• Books Set in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee
• I've chosen The Indigo Girl, which I have on Chirp

April, 2023

• Books Set in the U.S. Territories
• I chose Guam and found Secret Shopper by Tanya Taimanglo on Kindle

Goodreads Years in Review

 Really Cool to Check Out! 

 Collages of the book covers,

 longest and shortest, 

most popular and least popular on Goodreads

2019 171/100 Challenge

                Favorites:   The Body Keeper (Frasier) Ascension (Dixen) Where'd You Go Bernadette? (Semple) Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) Widowmaker (Doiron) Letters to the Lost (Kemmerer) The Line Between Us (Lee) I am Pilgrim (Hayes

2018  

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011   only 5 books recorded, lol

Books About Muslim Life and Experience

Picture Books:

Clever Ali (Farmer) 2006 (4.5) folktale
Four Feet, Two Sandals (Williams & Mohammed) 2007 (4)
Malala's Magic Pencil (Yousafzai) 2017 (5)
My First Ramadan (Katz) 2007 (4)
My Name is Bilal (Mobin-Uddin) 2005 (3)
Night of the Moon (Khan) 2008 (5) Ramadan
One Green Apple (Bunting) 2006 (5)
A Party in Ramadan (Mobin-Uddin) 2009 (4)
Silent Music (Rumford) 2008 (4.5)
Snow in Jerusalem (daCosta) 2001 (4)
Time to Pray (Addasi) 2010 (4.5)
Under My Hijab (Khan) 2019 (5)

Middle Grades:

Other Words for Home (Warga) 2019 (3)
Shadows of Ghadames (Stolz) 2005 (5)
Under the Persimmon Tree (Staples) 2005 (4)

Young Adult:

Internment (Ahmed) 2019 (2)
A Very Large Expanse of Sea (Mafi) 2018 (4.5)

Adult:

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Movies:

A Most Wanted Man (set in Germany) 2014 (5.5)
Mustang (set in Turkey) 2015 (5)
Sabah, A Love Story (set in Canada) 2005

Books that Talk about Artists

Haring, Keith
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing (Haring/Neubecker) 2017 (5)
     A wonderful biography for kids about Keith Haring that includes lots and lots of his original work, and is beautifully illustrated by Neubecker.  A favorite.
The Stories of the Mona Lisa (Barsony) 2012 (4)
          Barsony shows how he thinks other famous artists would have painted the Mona Lisa, including Keith Haring.

Picasso, Pablo
13 Artists Children Should Know (Wenzel) 2009 (5)
          A wonderful model for further research and writing...each of the thirteen artist pages include famous painting/s, kid-friendly information and anecdotes about the artist, tips, and further reading suggestions.  There's also a "try this' for each artist!
Emily's Blue Period (Daly/Brown) 2014 (5)
           A picture book about divorce...a young girl follows the example of Pablo Picasso and creates a collage of her "home."
Math at the Art Museum (Group Majoongmul) 2015 (4)
          Many famous artists are portrayed in this art book, which include works of art and perspective about the art and the artist. 

Books about the Jewish Life and Experience

Adult:

Novels:
          Sotah (Ragen) 1992 Hasidic Jerusalem (4)

Historical Fiction:
         Museum of Extraordinary Things, The (Hoffman) 2014 (5)
          People of the Book (Brooks) 2008 (5) Back & Forth into History

Mysteries:
          Book of Names, The (Gregory & Tintori) 2007 (3)
           Invisible City (#1 Rebekah Roberts) Dahl, 2014 (4)
           Moses Expedition, The (Gomez-Jurado) 2010 (2)
           Run You Down (#2 Rebekah Roberts) Dahl

Young Adult:
         Bottle in the Gaza Sea, A (Zenatti) 2005 (5)
          Hired Girl, The (Schlitz) 2015 (4.5)
          Hush (Chayil) 2010 (4) OLDER YA

Middle Grades:
          Anne Frank Case, The (Rubin) 2009 (3.5)
          Brooklyn Bridge (Hesse) 2008 (5)
          Hereville (Graphic Novel) (Deutsch) 2010 (5)
          Who Was Albert Einstein? (Parker) 2002

Picture Books:

Hanukkah
          All-of-a-Kind-Family Hanukkah (Jenkins/Zelinsky) 2018 (4)
          Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah (Roth) 2004 (3)
          Hanukkah Lights, Hanukkah Nights (Kimmelman/Himmelman) 1992 (3)
          Hanukkah Moon (daCoste) 2007 (3)
          Hooray for Hanukkah!  (Manushkin/Croll) 2011 (2.5)
          It's a Miracle!  A Hanukkah Storybook (Spinner/McElmurry) 2003 (4)
          It's Hanukkah! (Modesitt/Spowart) 1999 (2)
          It's Hanukkah Time! (Kropf/Cohen) 2004 (4)
          One Night, One Hanukkah Night (Backman) 1990 (3)
          Our Eight Nights of Hanukkah (Rosen/DiSalvo-Ryan) 2000 (5)
          Papa's Latke's (Edwards/Shuett) 2004 (5)
          Trees of Dancing Goats, The (Polacco) 2015? (4.5)
Holocaust
          Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived World War II (Russo) 2005 (5)
          Benno and the Night of Broken Glass (Wiviott/Bisaillon) 2010 (5)
          Let the Celebrations Begin! (Wild/Vivas) 1991 (5)
          Secret Seder, The (Rappaport/McCully) 2005 (4)
Immigration/Emigration
          Anna & Solomon (SnyderBloss) 2014 (4)
          Emma's Poem (Glaser) 2010 (4.5)
          Gittel's Journey (Newman/Bates) 2019 (4)
          Yuvi's Candy Tree (Simpson/Porter) 2011 (3.5)
Just for Fun/General
          Beautiful Yetta, the Yiddish Chicken (D. Pinkwater/ J. Pinkwater) 2010 (4.5)
          Hat for Mrs. Goldman, A (Edwards/Karas) 2016 (5)
          Someone for Mr. Sussman (Polacco) 2008
          Snow in Jerusalem (daCosta/VanWright & Hu) 2001 (4)
Passover
          Longest Night: A Passover Story (Snyder/Chien) 2013 (4)
          The Passover (Ziefert/Gudeon) 2010
          Pippa's Passover Plate (Kirkfield/Weber) 2019
          Secret Seder, The (Rappaport/McCully)
          Tale of Two Seders, A (Portnoy/Sis) 2010 (4)
          Yankee at the Seder, The (Weber/Gustavson) 2009 (4.5)
Purim
          Story of Queen Esther, The (Koralek/Holderness) 2009 (4)
Shabbat
          Baxter, the Pig Who Wanted to be Kosher (Snyder/Goldin) 2010 (5)
          Shabbat Puppy, The (Kimmelman/Zollars) 2012 (3.5)
Sukkot
          Shanghai Sukkah (Hyde/Tsong) 2015 (4)
Tashlich
          Tashlich at Turtle Rock (Schnur & Schnur-Fishman/Steele-Morgan) 2010 (5)
Tzedakah
          How Dalia Put a Big Yellow Comforter Inside a Tiny Blue Box (Heller//McQueen) TZEDAKAH, 2011 (4)

Bookish Books: Books about BOOKS

A Book by Mordecai Gerstein (4.5)
A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston
Bats at the Library by Brian Lies (4)
The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram and Susan Bloom
Book Fiesta by Pat Mora (5)
The Bookshop Dog by Cynthia Rylant (4)
Books!  Books!  Books! Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library by Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Born to Read by Judy Sierra (4)
The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians by Carla Morris
Busing Brewster by Richard Michelson

Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates (3.5)

The Dump Man's Treasures by Lynn Plourde (4)

Fire Up With Reading - Toni Buzzeo (4)

The House of Wisdom by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland

How to Live Forever by Colin Thompson (4)

How to Read a Book by Kwame Alexander (3-because of the illustrations)

Library Mouse by Daniel Kirk (5)
Library Mouse: A Friend's Tale by Daniel Kirk (4.5)
Magic in the Margins by W. Nikola-Lish (3.5)

Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I Don't) by Barbara Bottner
Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind by Judy Finchler and Kevin O'Malley  (4)

Open this Little Book by Jesse Klausmeier
Our Library by Eve Bunting (4.5)
The Perfect Gift by Mary Newell dePalma (4.5)
Read Anything Good Lately? by Susan Allen and Jane Lindaman (3.5)
Reading Makes You Feel Good by Todd Parr
The Red Book by Barbara Lehman (4.5)
Return of the Library Dragon - Carmen Agra Dedee
Ron's Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden (4)
That Book Woman by Heather Henson (3.5)
Write to Me:  Letters from Japanese American Children to the Librarian They Left Behind - Cynthia Grady (4.5)

NonFiction I've Read

Nonfiction books are so few and far between for me, I think I'll make a (very) short list of them, because I'm proud of myself for actually finishing them!

Attracting Birds to Your Backyard by Sally Roth, 1998
Being Jazz - Jazz Jennings, 2016 (3)
Daily Five, The  by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, 2006 (4)
Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover, 2018 (4.5)
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets of My DNA by Richard Hill, 2012 (4)
Knitting for Peace by Betty Christiansen, 2006
Mason Dixon Knitting by Kay Gardner and Ann Shayne, 2006 (5)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, 1994 DNF/(2.5)
Where Children Sleep by James Mollison, 2010 (5)
Yarn Bombing by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain
Zentangle Untangled by Kass Hall, 2012 (3)

Middle Grades:

Where Is Area 51? by Paula K. Manzanero, in the WHOHQ series, 2018 (4)

Graphic Novels and Comics

Alia's Mission - Mark Alan Stamatsy, 2004 (5) COMIC
     Within a few fast-paced days, Alia and some helpers move 30,000 books from the Library in Basra, Iraq before it can be destroyed by war.

Going into Town, a Love Letter to New York - Roz Chast, 2017 (4)
     A resident's clever, funny comments about traversing Manhattan.

Hereville - Barry Deutsch, 2010 (5) COMIC
     A fairy tale set solidly in an Orthodox Jewish community in contemporary America.

The Merchant of Venice - Gareth Hinds (based on the play by William Shakespeare) 2008 (2.5) COMIC

Mr. Mendoza's Paintbrush - Luis Alberto Urrea, 2010 (4.5) COMIC
           Mr. Mendoza was the unwanted graffiti king of all Mexico.  His platform was social justice.  In beautiful handwriting he would comment on the sins of the world.

Paper Girls: Vol. 1 - Brian K. Vaughan, 2016 (3) COMIC
     "In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time."

Saga: Volume 1 - Brian K. Vaughan, 2012 (2.5) COMIC
     Two soldiers, Alana and Marko, soldiers from different warring entities, fall in love and are on the run, trying to protect their newborn.

PICTURE BOOKS

Egg - Kevin Henkes, 2017 (4.5)

Vanilla Ice Cream - Bob Graham, 2014 (4)
     Following some food, a young sparrow takes refuge in a truck and travels through India.

TBR

On My Litsy & Goodreads Lists:

Memoirs:
Being Jazz - Jazz Jennings, 2016
Born a Crime: Stories of a South African Childhood, 2016
Educated - TAra Westover, 2018
Heart Berries - Terese Mailhot, 2018
Lab Girl - Hope Jahren, 2016
This is Just My Face, Try Not to Stare - Gabourey Sidibe,2017
Where am I Know?  True Stories of a Girl and Accidental Fame - Mara Wilson,2016

Short Stories:
The Hidden Light of Objects - Mai Al-Nakib (Middle Eastern) 2014

YA:
Define Normal - Julie Anne Peters
Emergency Contact - Mary H. K. Choi, 2018
Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi,  (fantasy/dystopia? AFrica) 2018
Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson, 2017, Canadian. Nat Am

Graphic Novels:
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (darkly funny memoir)
Stitches - David Small 2011 (top ten memoir)

Adult Fiction/Mystery/Thriller/HistFict/CRF/Fantasy:
City of the Lost - Kelley Armstrong, 2016
Chilbury Ladies' Choir - Jennifer Ryan, 2017 - WWII Hist Fict
IQ - Joe Ide, 2016, LA "Sherlock Holmes"
Forgotten Ones - Steena Holmes, 2018 - Investigating broken childhood memories
The Humans - Matt Haig, 2014 - Funny, extraterrestrial inhabits a professor's body
Wicked Deep - Shea Ernshaw, 2018 (witches, cursed town, fantasy)
A Grave Talent (#1 Martinelli, outsde SF) Laurie R. King, 2014
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - balli Kaur Jaswal, 2017
Origin - Dan Brown, 2017
The Cactus - Sarah Haywood, 2018 COMING 5/1/18 DO IT!!!
The Shadow Land - Elizabeth Kostova, 2017

2017 Middle Grade Novels:
Auma's Long Run-Odhiambo
Beyond the Bright Sea - Wolk
A Boy Called Bat - Arnold
Bronze and Sunflower - Cao/Wang
The Ethan I Was Before - Standish
Feliz Yz - Bunker
Funny Girl: Funniest. Stories. Ever - ed. Betsy Bird
Last Day on Mars - Emerson
Orphan Island - Snyder
Patina - Reynolds
Posted - Anderson
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth - Boyce
Stef Soto, Taco Queen - Torres
York: The Shadow of Cipher - Ruby

Previous Middle Grade Novels:
The Secrets of Blueberries, Brothers, Moose & Me - Sara Nickerson
Colin Fischer - Ashley Edward Miller
Stella by Starlight - Sharon Draper
The War that Saved My Life - Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Absolutely Truly - Heather Vogel Frederick
All the Answers - Kate Messner
Ms. Bixby's Last Day - John David Anderson
Gertie's Leap to Greatness - Kate Beasley
Root Beer Candy and Other Miracles - Shari Green
Paper Wishes - Lois Sepahban
Hour of the Bees - Lindsay Eager
Blue Birds - Caroline Starr Rose
A Tangle of Knots - Lisa Graff
Paper Boy - Vince Vawter
The Hidden Summer - Gin Phillips
The Boy on the Porch - Sharon Creech
Hokey Pokey - Jerry Spinelli
Sure Signs of Crazy - Karen Harrington
Navigating Early - Clare Vanderpool
The Secret Tree - Natalie Standiford
The Boy on the Wooden Box - Leon Leyson
The Paper Cowboy - Kristin Levine
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan
March: Book 1 - John Lewis
House Arrest AND Rhyme Schemer by K. A. Holt

2017 Children's Holiday Books:  
The Pomegranate Witch (Halloween) - Doyen/Wheeler
Red and Lulu (Christmas) - Tavares
The Sundown Kid: A Southwestern Shabbat - Bietz/Kanzler
This is Not a Valentine - Higgins/Cummins
A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa's Tasty Trip Around the World - Furman/Gal

2017 Children's Poetry 
Animal Ark - Alexander
Bravo! Poems About Amazing Hispanics - Engle/Lopez
Cricket in the Thicket: Poems about Bugs/Murray/Sweet
Family Poems for Every Day of the Week - Alarcon/Gonzalez
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing - Singer/Valiant
I'm Just No Good at Rhyming - Harris/Smith
Keep a Pocket in Your Poem - Lewis/Wright
Let's Clap, Jump, Sing & Shout, Dance, Spin & Turn It Out!: McKissack/Pinkney
My Daddy Rules the World - Smith
A New School Year - Derby/Song
One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance - Grimes - purchased 4/18
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets - Alexander, Colderley, Wentworth/Holmes - own
Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals - Davies/Horacek - currently reading 4/18

2017 Non-Fiction Picture Books:
Apex Predators - Steve Jenkins
Balderdash: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children's Books -Markel/Carpenter
Before She Was Harriet - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
Carolina's Comets: A True Story = McCully
Danza! Amalia Hernandez and El Ballet Folklorico de Mexico - Tonatiuh
Frido Kahlo and Her Animalitos - Brown/Parra
Germs: Fact and Fiction, Friends and Foes - Cline-Ransome/Ransome
The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon - Poletti & Yee/Chapman
Gorilla Gardener:  How to Help Nature Take Over the World - John & Jana
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code - Walmark/Wu
Grand Canyon - Chin
Her Right Foot - Eggers/Harris
How the Cookie Crumbled: The True (and Not-So-True) Stories of the Invention of the Chocolate Chip Cookie - Ford
A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars - Fishman/Greenberg
If You Were the Moon - Purdie/Kim
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing - Haring/Neubecker
Malala: Activist for Girls' Education - Frier/Fronty
Martina & Chrissie - Bildner/Helquist
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines, Designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Harvey/Phumiruk
The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention f the Piano - Rusch/Priceman
My Awesome Summer by P. Mantis - Meisel
Noah Webster's Fighting Words (Maurer/Catasanu
Our Gift-Filled Earth - Eun Hee Na/ Ha Jin Jung
Over and Under the Pond - Messner/Neal
Pedal Power: How One Community Became the Bicycle Capital of the World - Drummond
Penguin Day: A Family Story - Bishop
Robins: How They Grow Up - Christelow
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality - Winter/Innerst
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library - Weatherford/Velasquez
Stand Up and Sing! Pete Seeger, Folk Music and the Path to Justice - Susanna Reich/Gustavson
This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids From Around the World - Lamothe
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity - Suzuki/Weisntein
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist - Levinson/Newton

Previous Non-Fiction Picture Books
Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: a Story of the Young Jimi Hendrix - Gary Golio
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library - Barb Rosenstock
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women - Kathleen Krull
Just Behave, Pablo Picasso - Jonah Winter
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Woman Changed a City Forever - Joseph H. Hopkins
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse - Patricia MacLachlan
Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost - Natalie S. Bober
For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson - Peggy Thomas
The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane - C. M. Millen

YA National Book Award 2017

I got looking at the longlist, then the shortlist, of the National Book Award nominees for 2017, and wondered how they correlate with other awards, such as the Printz and maybe even the Newbery AND how they "match up" to what Goodreads readers feel about them.  So, as part of that investigation, I thought I would look at this year's list:

*Shortlisted books are highlighted in yellow.
Goodreads ratings as of 10/6/17 follow each title

Arnold, Elana K.: What Girls Are Made Of (3.77 - 332 ratings)
Benway, Robin:  Far from the Tree (4.48 - 332 ratings
Mabry, Samantha:  All the Wind in the World (3.63 - 84 ratings
Perkins, Mitali:  You Bring the Distant Near (4.26 - 218 ratings)
Reynolds:  Long Way Down (4.60 - 376 ratings)  Free Verse
Sanchez, Erika L.: I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter ((3.92 - 75 ratings)
Snyder, Laurel: Orphan Island (3.82 - 1577 ratings)
Thomas, Angie: The Hate U Give (4.61 - 49,661 ratings)
Williams-Garcia: Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (3.99 - 459 ratings)
Zoboi, Ibi: American Street (4.03 - 2770 ratings)

Civil Rights and Being Black in America

PICTURE BOOKS
1960s
Bass, Hester - Seeds of Freedom (2015) Huntsville, AL 1962-1963, peaceful desegregation
Faulkner, Matt - A Taste of Colored Water (2008) during desegregtion
Pinkney, Andrea Davis - How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (2010) Greensboro sit-ins
Ramsey, Calvin Alexander - Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend (2011) the mule that pulled MLKs casket
Tonatiuh, Ducan - Separate is Never Equal; Sylvia Mendez and her Family's Fight for Desegregation

Between the 1860s and 1960s
Malaspina, Ann - Finding Lincoln (2009) segregation
McKissack, Patricia C. _ Stitchin' and Pullin' a Gee's Bend Quilt (2007)
Shange, Ntozake - We Trouble the Waters (2009)- poems about being black in the south in the 1940s

Slavery in America (including Underground Railroad)
Hendrix, John - John Brown : His Fight for Freedom (2008)
Johnson, Angela - All Different Now (2014) emancipation
Levine, Ellen - Henry's Freedom Box (2007) being sold away from family
Polacco, Patricia - January's Sparrow (2009)  runaways to freedom
Slate, Joseph - I Want to Be Free (2009)
Stroud, Bettye - The Patchwork Path: a Pathway to Freedom (2005)
Weatherford, Carole Boston - Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2006)
Whelan, Gloria - The Listeners (2009) plantation

Famous People in Black History
Blue, Rose & Corinne J. Naden - Ron's Big Mission (2009) a story about Ron McNair in 1959
Cook, Michelle - Our Children Can Soar (2009) 2-pg. biographies of people important to black history
Hendrix, John - John Brown : His Fight for Freedom (2008)
Shange, Ntozake - Coretta Scott (2009) Picture book biography
Taveres Matt - Henry Aaron's Dream (2010)
Weatherford, Carole Boston - Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (2006)

NOVELS
Anderson, Laurie Halse - Chains (2008) Slavery during the American Revolution (YA)
Latham, Irene - Leaving Gee's Bend -(2010) 1932 Alabama (Middle Grades)
Sturm, James - Satchel Paige; Striking Out Jim Crow (2007) (Graphic Novel for Middle Grades)