Miss 11 absolutely loved it, and couldn’t wait for me to finish reading it too. Wonderscape is like Terry Pratchett for kids. We put quite a few from that list into our to-be-read pile, which is a bonus for this long stay-at-home June holidays! “The Losers Club” is a beautiful ode to the protagonist’s all-consuming love for books, and I thought it captured the slightly confusing yet realistic gentle awakenings of puppy love very well too.Īt least 50 other middle-grade book titles are mentioned within this book, and helpfully collated into the list at the end. Frindle sold over 6 million copies and became a New York Times bestseller. Miss 10 got hooked on Andrew Clements’ books ever since her school gave her a copy of Frindle, and I must say I can see why!Ĭlements is known as the ‘master of school stories’, having started writing as a public school teacher many years ago, and is now the author of over 80 acclaimed books for kids. If your kid loves books, or if you’re trying to inculcate a passion for reading in them, then “The Losers Club” is the book for them! And eventually everyone figures out that it’s not what someone does that matters most. The Losers Club by Andrew ClementsĪnd everybody figures out that labels don’t matter either, like ‘bookworm’ or ‘sports guy,’ because that’s a label, too. Plus the awesome surprise of so many cool anagrams as a bonus at the end of the book!ġ0/10 ⭐️ 3. Totally loved the setting of a seaside town with all its clams, fishing and the rescuing of sea life. “Shouting at the Rain” shows how we are better off without friends who trade loyalty for lesser things, deals with the difficult subject of a parent who is absent because of addiction, a grandma dealing with her own hurt, a boy whose mum *chose* to leave him, children living near the poverty line, and comfortingly proves how you do not need to be wealthy to be rich with the love of family and true friends. Lynda writes so powerfully, yet so compassionately, that her books are simply gems in the canon of middle grade fiction that will encourage and uplift so many kids who may be struggling through all sorts of hurt. “Shouting at the Rain” by Lynda Mullaly Hunt is just as fantastic as her “Fish in a Tree”. It’s hard and I know there are times when the world beats you down ad you feel like that’s the only way it’ll ever be…… But the thing is are you going to live your life as a victim? Or a survivor?” But I think if you olay a difficult hand with courage and compassion, you end up stronger. “Some people aren’t dealt easy hands, and it isn’t fair.
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