This week's newsletter is sponsored by A Weekend at Gramps ‘97 Buy on Amazon Step into the vibrant summer of 1997! Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, this nostalgic middle-grade novel follows ten-year-old Dave and his rule-breaking brother on a wild New England weekend with their sports-obsessed Gramps. Hello friends, How's it going? This week was super busy! I re-launched our Kid Reviewer program and had to close the form after less than 48 hours because we received over 100...

Hey friends, How's it going? This has been a BUSY week at RMG HQ -- and with more work on the horizon, I've been actively considering hiring a summer intern. If I decide to, you'll be the first to hear. In the meantime, we're chugging away with all of our summer reading guide prep and a long list of novel units coming this summer. We published a post we've had on the docket for a while now, and it's this list of middle grade books about war. My teammate, Evelyn, tells me that the kids in her...

This week's newsletter is sponsored by Andrews McMeel Publishing Buy on Amazon The rain never stops. The world is drowning. Survival is everything. When the Rain Came is the first YA book in an all-new, action-packed dystopian adventure series by New York Times bestselling author Matt Eicheldinger. Ed note: This is such a terrific novel, I enjoyed it! Great for older fans of Alone and Hatchet and absolutely appropriate for middle schoolers, too. Hey y'all, How's it going? I've had a full,...