See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles – 2016 Rebecca Caudill Award Nominee [Book Review]

See You at Harry’s starts off as a seemingly typical contemporary middle grade novel. Young girl starts middle school. Girl sees what middle school/high school is really like. Girl is embarrassed by her family. But it turns into so much more than that. From the description it infers that there is some sort of tragedy, which is not what you expect it to be…

May B. by Caroline Starr Rose – 2016 Rebecca Caudill Award Nominee [Book Review]

May B. is the first middle grade novel in verse that I have read in a long time, the last one being Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. When I was looking at the Caudill Nominees for 2016 and read the description for this one I could not wait to get my hands on it. I am a huge fan of The Little House on the Prairie books and was excited to read another children’s book in that setting. May B. did not disappoint.