I Will Be Participating in Middle Grade March!

 I've known about this challenge for years but only now I decided to partcipate in it. 

So here are the prompts for this year's middle grade March and the books I have decided to read for each:

1. Part of a series: For this I chose book two of the Amari series by BB Alston. I already read book one last month (review for that here). Book two is titled Amari and the Great Game.

2. An author with three names. I chose Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. I will also be comparing it with the Studio Ghibli movie. 

3. Include travel: Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver

4. Flowers on the cover: Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

5. Published in the 1900s: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

I am so excited to read all these books! I love middle grade fiction. 

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