New middle grade fiction
I've been rooting around in the Netgalley closet looking for something new to read. I had to kick a few to the curb (nothing more disappointing than opening a new book and finding ZERO magic on the pages), but I'm back on a roll again. Here are some of the good ones I've been reading. The first one is called "The Distance to Home" by Jenn Bishop. It's about a girl named Quinnen who really loves to play baseball. She has imposed a baseball moratorium on herself because her sister was killed in a car accident the year before and Quinnen feels she bears some responsibility for her death. Frankly, I'm a little tired of stories about kids who are dealing with the death of someone they care about, however, my students just lap this stuff up so while I'm a bit over it, they seem to want more, so ok. Here we go. The people helping Quinn through this are her parents (who Quinn worries liked her sister better), some semi-pro baseball players that liv...