More new realistic middle grade fiction

So I guess I'm a little behind on updating the blog... since it's been since APRIL that I posted last. Sheesh, it's not even like I have work to blame it on anymore. But ok, here are two amazing new middle grade realistic fiction books. The first one is by a favorite author, Jeanne Birdsall. If you don't know, she wrote a series of books about a family called the Penderwicks, that was just wonderful. Her newest book is called "The Library of Unruly Treasures" and it's also just a treasure. Birdsall has a real gift for writing characters that are interesting and kind and smart, people that I'd like to be friends with and this book is exactly that, except this one also has magical creatures. It's about Gwen, who's lived a life of upheaval, her parents are divorced and neither of them really seems to want a girl like Gwen around, so one summer, she ends up going to stay with her great uncle Matthew who she doesn't really remember and d...