YA and Middle Grade Fiction Book Club

August 6, 2024 10:11 AM

Are you interested in getting back into reading? Are you interested in increasing your love of reading? Reading YA and Middle Grade fiction is a great way to achieve either goal! Join me (starting in September) for a Middle Grade/YA Fiction book club. Each month we will read two books (one Middle Grade, one YA) from the NY Times current Best Seller List. We will hold our book club discussion via a Fanfare post on the last day of the month (I will ask the mods if these posts can veer into chat territory as well). Caveats and schedule inside!

Caveats: I am going to skip books I've already read. I am also reserve the right to backtrack to the first in the series if necessary (so if the 8th book is on the best seller list today, I may go back to the first).

September
Heroes by Alan Gratz
The Reappearance of Rachel Price by Holly Jackson

October
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Darkness Within Use by Tricia Levenseller

November
The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

December
Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World
Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

January
The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum by Lisa Yee
Lightlark by Alex Aster

February
Odder by Katherine Applegate
Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

March
They Call Me No Sam! by Drew Daywalt
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

April
Chasing Embers by Glenn Beck with Mikayla G. Hedrick
Murtagh by Christopher Paolini

May
Heartless Hunter by Kristen Ciccarelli
Second book chosen through voting

posted by CMcG (1 comment total)

Wait, this is PERFECT. Especially as I have one middle grade aged reader and one YA aged reader in my house. The only suggestion I have is to maybe separate the discussions out? So do the middle grade book on the 15th or 20th of the month, and then YA on the last day? My brain is too befuddled to handle two book discussions at the same time.
posted by Night_owl at 5:46 AM on August 15 [1 favorite]