Welcome to the bookshelf tour! Previously: Nonfiction | Buddhism & Yoga | Poetry & Adult Fiction | Adult Fiction & Graphic Novels | Horror & Classics | Tolkien | Contemporary Romance. ICYMI, since I’m not on Booktube, and never will be, I wanted to travel through my shelves on a biweekly adventure on the blog. Since these are going to be pretty long, I won’t ramble on, so let’s get to it! About half of these are read, though probably only a handful are reviewed, so I’ll link to Goodreads if it’s available.
I’m so pleased to have so many middle grade books that I was actually able to separate between subgenres and have more than one shelf. This is the first of two and a half, and it starts with contemporary middle grade and shifts into fantasy. I don’t have the fantasy separated between urban & high, and now that I’m realizing that, I’d really like to go back and separate them because I actually think I have enough.
A purple shelf! We’ve got a wonderfully big amethyst cluster that Erin got me on top of a soothing crystal candle, clear quartz point, painted elephant that my mom got me, a tiny amethyst point that you can’t really see on top of a dried lavender & sage candle, tumbled amethyst, two pieces of raw lepidolite on either side of a huge tumbled amethyst on top of another lavender candle, and a fist-sized raw rose quartz on top of a white tea & lavender candle. Yes, lavender is one of my favorite scents.
And without the stuff so you can actually see the books.
My top three of this shelf is:
The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon | ★★★★★ | Review
Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath | ★★★★★
Coraline by Neil Gaiman | ★★★★ | Review
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | ★★★★
Sparrow by Sarah Moon | ★★★★★ | Review
The Someday Birds by Sally J. Pla | ★★★★★
Holes by Louis Sachar | ★★★★
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli | ★★★★★
Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli | UNREAD
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan | ★★★★★
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill | ★★★★ | Review
The Dreadful Tale of Propser Redding by Alexandra Bracken | ★★★★ | Review
The Last Life of Prince Alastor by Alexandra Bracken | ★★★★ | Review
Boxen: Childhood Chronicles Before Narnia by C.S. Lewis | UNREAD
Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper | UNREAD
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper | UNREAD
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper | UNREAD
The Grey King by Susan Cooper | UNREAD
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper | UNREAD
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende | ★★★★
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke | ★★★★★
Inkspell by Cornelia Funke | ★★★★★
Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke | ★★★★★
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funk | UNREAD
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke | ★★★★★ | Review
Stardust by Neil Gaiman | UNREAD
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson | ★★★★★ | Review
The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris | ★★★★★ | Review
The Magic Misfits: The Second Story by Neil Patrick Harris | ★★★★★ | Review
The Magic Misfits: The Minor Third by Neil Patrick Harris | ★★★★★ | Review
Wildwood by Colin Meloy | ★★★★ | Review
Under Wildwood by Colin Meloy | ★★★★ | Review
Wildwood Imperium by Colin Meloy | ★★★★★ | Review
Mary and the Words 
The Dark is Rising is my favorite middle grade series. The first one, Over Sea, Under Stone, reads a bit younger but once you get to book two it picks up in action and age. I love how Susan Cooper incorporated Welsh mythology, and her imagery is fantastic.
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I’ve heard so many fantastic things about them, and they’re so short, I should just take a quick week to read through them one of these days. Maybe next month!
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You should do that! It’s definitely a series you can get through in short order. And Will is an awesome character. 🙂
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Looks like you have some really awesome middle grade books. I don’t think I have many now that I think about it. Maybe like…half a shelf worth lol. 🙂
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They’re so much fun! I’ve only really been getting into them in the last year or so, but there’s such a wealth of wonderful stories.
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I feel like middle grade is having a resurgence lately. There are so many popular adult sff authors that are writing it at the moment.
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It really is, and it’s so fun to see what authors we’ve already loved are creating in middle grade.
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Oh I love these! I think the only mioddle grade that I own is Nevermoor.. Although I do listen to quite some! I recently read A pinch of magic, which I loved!
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I’ve never read Nevermoor, but they always look so good!
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I see some of my faves! (Inkheart, Coraline, The Girl Who Drank the Moon). I love that you have Everything on a Waffle – that’s not really book you hear much about in the blogosphere. My fifth grade teacher read it aloud to my class. 🙂 (I think a sequel came out recently??)
(By the way, Stardust is adult fiction with YA crossover appeal. But that’s another fave of mine anyway haha.)
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(…Oh, apparently the sequel came out EIGHT YEARS AGO 😂.)
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Everything on a Waffle is just the best! I also read it in elementary school, and it stood out to me so much that I’ve kept it ever since. And there was a sequel?!
Oh gosh, haha, I know, I honestly have no idea why Stardust is down there. I keep meaning to move it and then forgetting.
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So cute, I love the purple crystals ❤ Ah I read Stargirl SO LONG AGO but I recently watched the Disney+ movie and I loved it so much I low-key kind of want to reread it now!
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My sister just told me there was a movie, and she really liked it, so I’m excited to watch it! Though, admittedly, I remember absolutely nothing about the story itself, haha.
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