Welcome to Favorites Month! Each week in December, Chrissie will share a category of her favorite kidlit of 2024. This week, we're talking middle grade.
Featured Titles
- A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall by Jasmine Warga
- Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste
- Read At Your Own Risk by Remy Lai
- The Curse of Eelgrass Bog by Mary Averling
- The House with a Dragon In It by Nick Lake, illustrated by Emily Gravett
- The Liars Society by Alyson Gerber
- The Underdogs of Upson Downs by Craig Silvey
Honorable Mentions
- The Fairy Tale Fan Club by Richard Ayoade
- The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman by Gennifer Choldenko
On My TBR:
- Tig by Heather Smith
- Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood by Robert Beatty
- The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly
- Stranded by Nikki Shannon Smith
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