friends – Susan Uhlig

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

The Shape of Lost Things (HarperCollins, 2024) by Sarah Everett is an amazing and powerful book!

Skye Nickson’s father and older brother disappeared four years ago and the twelve-year-old still has questions. Where did the go? Why did the leave? Why didn’t Dad take her too? Each year she has to deal with a birthday party for her missing-in-action brother. But this year after his birthday is different. Finn has been found. Can this fourteen-year-old stranger really be the brother she remembers and loved?

Sarah writes young adult books too–I’m going to have to read them: Everyone We’ve Been and How to Live without You! Read more about the author on her website.

Marvelous Middle Grade Monday

I loved Shouting at the Rain (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2019) by Lynda Mullaly Hunt so much! It had such good lines that I want to savor, such as, “The sun is always in the sky–it just gets hidden sometimes.”

Delsie never really thought of herself as an orphan until her friend wants to use her as inspiration. Then when Delsie’s summertime friend shows up, she’s not really interested in Delsie and what they used to do anymore. It’s not comfortable being on the outside looking in at friendships nor whole families.

The book is a Junior Library Guild Selection and a NY Times bestseller. Don’t miss this good story!

Read about Lynda here and check out her other two books here.