31 Days, 31 Lists: 2023 Middle Grade Fiction

And here we deviate from the regular plan.

Under normal circumstances, I have read every single book featured on these 31 Days, 31 Lists recommendations. There is only one single, solitary list where this is not the case. Friends, there is such a plethora of amazing middle grade fiction out there, I cannot even begin to read it all. Neither can my 101 Great Books for Kids committee at Evanston Public Library, but by god we tried. We tried so hard! We tried to read all the starred Kirkus r...