A young adult, middle grade, and classic book blog! Twitter account run by Briana: Tolkien, Doctor Who, medieval lit fan.
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Graphic Novel Adaptations of Fantasy Novels (Fantasy with Friends) pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
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People keep moving the goalposts on the middle grade thing. Now there are people arguing their kids don't like the covers on any of books. Ok, but "I am very particular about the books I want to buy" is a separate thing from "Publishers have a conspiracy to publish no boy books."
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Goodreads lists are user-generated and not always 100% accurate, but the 2026 middle grade list has 247 books. If the claim is only 1/3 are "boy books," that's 82 books from THIS year you can find to read. There's not nothing on the shelves.
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The most ridiculous thing has to be Google's AI summary of the current weather, which is never what the current weather actually is.
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Are There No "Boy Books" or Are Customers Simply Struggling to Find the Ones They Want? pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
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I appreciate the concept it can be hard to find books one personally likes. I myself have multiple times walked into a bookstore (especially smaller ones), browsed, and walked out without finding something I wanted to buy. That doesn't mean publishers don't publish books I like.
For instance, when I was younger I wanted to buy some YA. I walked into the local bookstore. They had a small YA section. Every book was an obvious bestseller, something I'd already read or determined I had no interest in. That doesn't mean YA books didn't exist.
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Completely anecdotal, but I overheard one of my neighbors calling out her husband for reading to their daughters before bed but not their son. Apparently it didn't occur to him that you would read to boys. Might be related to "why boys read less." Apparently it's a girl activity.
Light Up My Life: A Holiday Novel By Kasie West pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
I would be less annoyed by the constant middle grade discourse if anyone knew what middle grade is. It's books for kids 8-12 and it's books publishers label that way. Twilight is not MG. Sarah J Maas is not MG. Dune is not MG. Brandon Sanderson is not MG (ok he has 1 MG).
What if I challenge everyone to go buy, read, and leave online reviews for the boy-oriented middle grade books that currently exist? I promise you can find multiple published this year. Give them the publicity you want them to have! Boost them! Don't just say they don't exist.
My co-blogger literally published a review of a boy middle grade book today, and she gave it five stars: pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
3 but they're all the same series, so it feels as if that's really a 1 to me . . .
How many of the 25 most popular books Goodreads members have shelved as 'Read' since July have you finished? 👀 Reply with your count!
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A list of some recent middle grade books for boys: pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
Young boys are being discouraged from getting into reading—and it’s because more books are missing one key element, @sophiah_n reports: theatlantic.com/culture/2026…
Absent by Rex Ogle, Ill. by LJ Baptiste pagesunbound.wordpress.com/2…
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No one is reacting poorly to the initial tweet. This would've blown up 2012 Twitter w/ reviewers insisting they're supposed to be honest. Is it the rise of influencer culture? Everyone knows the Internet is just people shilling products they don't even like? Nothing to see here?
I saw a tweet from someone in publishing who said they don't approve Netgalley requests if you say you're ok with giving 1 star. And while I know it's always been an unspoken rule you're "supposed" to rate high "if you want to keep getting ARCs," the public admission is weird.
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You can tell how many people didn't even watch the trailer because the premise here is that Mickey IS an adult capable of staying home alone and in fact he is HAPPY he's home and not on a trip for Christmas.
New trailer for ‘Mickey’s Home Alone’ special.
Premieres November 26th on Disney Jr. and next day on Disney+.
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