Whew! What a month it has been! I don't know about you, but I have really cherished the time I spent this month dedicating my reading to middle grade books. I read more than I normally do and I read and blogged about some truly great books. Let's hope I can keep the momentum going as we head into summer. (My first summer in 10+ years that I will not be stressed out about the Summer Reading Program...)
Our final week of Middle Grade May 2018 is all about diverse books. Akoss asked us to talk about books that portray diversity in an uplifting way. I couldn't narrow it down this week, so I have six booktalks for you with some of my favorite recent diverse reads.
Books mentioned in this video:
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokski (Disney-Hyperion, 2018)
The Serpent's Secret by Sayantani DasGupta (Scholastic, 2018)
Stef Soto, Taco Queen by Jennifer Torres (Little, Brown, 2017)
The Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste (Algonquin, 2015)
The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez (Viking, 2017)
Rebound by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin, 2018)
How'd your Middle Grade May go? Did you read some great middle grade books? I'd love to hear about them - let me know what you've been reading!