Tag: middle grades

Review: Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead

This was a surprise gift in the mail from the publisher, Wendy Lamb books, and Random House, Inc., and I am very happy that I got it.  I wasn’t sure at first, but once I started reading, I really fell in love with the story and the characters.  It is a middle grade story, but […]

Posted August 11, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: Ghostlight by Sonia Gensler

Thanks to Knopf Books for Young Readers and Edelweiss for allowing me to read an e-galley of this book.  I really enjoyed the other book I read by this author, The Dark Between.  While I’m still hoping for a sequel to that book, this was definitely a good standalone story.  Another kind of creepy story […]

Posted August 6, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: After Dark by James Leck

First, thanks to Kids Can Press and Netgalley for allowing me to read an egalley of this title.  I definitely enjoyed it.  It is more of a middle school level title, but not in a bad way.  I loved the main character who was just constantly sarcastic.  I mean even in the middle of danger […]

Posted July 21, 2015 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

Review: The Swap by Megan Shull

This is one of the ARCs I had to get at BEA.  And boy am I glad that I got it!!  Let me say when I picked it up to finally read it this week at first I wasn’t sure because it was about middle school kids and I had mistakenly assumed it was about […]

Posted August 14, 2014 by Lisa Mandina in / 4 Comments

The Always War by Margaret Peterson Haddix

I’ve been a fan of Margaret Peterson Haddix since I first read Among the Hidden, the first book in the Shadow Children series.  I loved that whole series, and then got caught up in her stand alone novels, as well as her Missing series.  I’d seen this book around, and it sounded interesting.  I got […]

Posted August 24, 2013 by Lisa Mandina in / 2 Comments