Middle grade books I have recently read

I seem to have gotten into a bit of a situation on the NYPL app, because every book recommends me to two or three others, and if you add that to the ones I already was interested in reading it's a veritable flood of middle grade and YA fantasy. (And sometimes not fantasy.)

It's really amazing how little crossover there is between the "also recommended" and the books I see people talking about in my own corner of kidlit readers.

It's also amazing how incredibly different this is from my childhood. The endlessly huge library in Robin McKinley's Beauty was my dream world. I read fast, we never could keep a library card (or rather, we could never remember to return the books, so same diff), I had no friends, and so I always needed more books to read. Sure, I could happily read the same book a dozen times in a row, but sooner or later you want something new.

A world in which I could find as many books as I like literally at the touch of my fingertips - unbelievable. (And yet, weirdly, there are still bizarre gaps. But that's another complaint for another day.)

( Ember and the Ice Dragons )

( Long Lost )

( More to the Story )

( The School Between Winter and Fairyland )