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Top Nine Middle Grade Books I Read in 2020

January 3, 2021 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

I love middle grade reads, so this is my longest list this year. In no particular order, here are the books to which I gave a five-star rating in 2020. […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Across the Line, All of Me, Eva Ibbotson, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Kate Darnton, Katherine Rundell, Listen to the Moon, Lois Lowry, Meg Wolitzer, Michael Morpurgo, middle-grade, Nayanika Mahtani, Number the Stars, Out of My Mind, Sharon M Draper, The Good Thieves, The Misfits, The Star of Kazan, To Night Owl from Dogfish, Venita Coelho

Across the Line

June 19, 2020 by Varsha Seshan Leave a Comment

Book cover Text: 'Compelling and uplifting...lingers long after the last page is turned' Vidya Balan Nayanika Mahtani Across the Line Image: Illustration of a boy and a girl looking in opposite directions. Barbed wire above, pictures like cricket stumps, a ladle, a rolling pin and a bat in the margins.

What a powerful, beautiful book. Across the Line is one of the South Asia Book Award Honor Books 2020. I was intrigued by the title and the cover image, but […]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Across the Line, middle-grade, Nayanika Mahtani, reading, review