Spirit Corner Little Free Library

[tylik]

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[jeliza]

Ursula Vernon's middle grade are -- IDK, is having the princess be a badass subversive anymore? Anyway, the Hamster Princess series is great. Dragonbreath is good too. The graphic novel Rollergirl is great, and pretty much anything by Raina Telgemeier. I'll ask the kids if they have any other suggestions, since they are just emerging from middle grade books themselves.

[tylik]

When I get multiple recs for the same thing, I know I have to try it...

[jeliza]

:)

Some of Dragonbreath is out in paperback now, but the rest are mostly hardbound. She also has a maybe-not-middle-grade-but-on-the-young-side-of-ya novel called "Nurk", which is wonderful and follows the timid great-nephew of the fierce adventurer shrew Surka who is in Digger. (Digger is wonderful and I suspect you would like it, but not only is it 600 pages in full, but people tend to look at the drawing of a wombat on it and think it is a kids book which it very much is not.)

[thewronghands]

Is middle readers the same as YA, or does it come before that? rachelmanija's "Hostage" series is YA and full of diversity in a satisfying way.

Your library looks great!

[tylik]

...I need to just grab it for myself.

And then maybe let it loose in the wild.

[gows]

1984 and Animal Farm - although maybe a little advanced for most middle readers. Anything by Judy Blume. Anne McCaffrey: Dragonriders, Dragonsinger, Crystal Singer. Hunger Games, Divergent series, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Odd Girl Out - a fascinating sociological book focusing on young women, 12-18 or so, and how they express/deal with the passive aggression that women are socially allowed to use instead of direct confrontation. It would have helped me immensely to read it at that age. It's useful to me as an adult, for that matter.

[tylik]

I think a bunch of those are a little more young adult in terms of what we're looking at, but ones I remember fondly.

[gows]

Hmmm. What's a middle reader, then? Not the same thing as YA, I'm supposing.

[gows]

FWIW, I found this list online the other day. Thought some of the older-reader books might fit the category you're looking for.

http://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10940

[inaurolillium]

Ursula Vernon has a couple of middle-grade series, Dragonbreath and Hamster Princess, plus the standalone Castle Hangnail. All subversive and funny.

[tylik]

Okay, that's multiples, so that's a definite...

[inaurolillium]

Oh, and I don't know if you remember, but some years ago, I sent you a link to a comic with a talking prophetic slug (because slugs, of course). That's also Ursula Vernon, her webcomic/graphic novel Digger, and might make a good addition as well.

[inaurolillium]

Seconded.