
Books In the Middle Podcast
Looking for booktalks for middle school students? Look no farther than this podcast. Browse through the many titles in all different genres for just the right title to get your students inspired, excited and racing to the library for a copy of the book. Looking for written reviews for more titles? Check out the blog Booksinthemiddle.Wordpress.com to expand your own library and give students more options. New episodes typically release every Monday, however during the summer months, they will release every other week or so. Enjoy!
Podcasting since 2018 • 317 episodes
Books In the Middle Podcast
Latest Episodes
Spirit Sleuths by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction)
Spirit Sleuths by Gail JarrowDuring the middle of the 1800s in America, there came to be a belief that certain people had the ability to speak to the dead. They were called mediums and a whole religion sprang up around this idea. However...
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Runaway By Wendelin Van Draanen (Contemporary Fiction)
Runaway by Wendelin Van DraanenHolly is a runaway - from her latest foster placement. The guy gave her the creeps and they locked her in the laundry room at night, giving her very little food, so what was the point in staying? She's been...
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Beastly Beauty By Jennifer Donnelly (Fantasy and Romance)
Beastly Beauty by Jennifer DonnellyBeau is in a hurry to get back to his little brother. But first he has to escape the gang of thieves he has been with for many years. When the gangs latest heist goes south, they take refugee in a stran...
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Boy 2.0 by Tracey Baptiste (Science Fiction)
Boy 2.0 by Tracey BaptisteCoal has just landed in another foster home. And he is upset because the last one with Tom, was a good one. Still, his "new" family seem welcoming enough, if a little loud. But when Coal goes out one afternoon t...
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Lifeboat 5 by Susan Hood (Novel in Verse - Survival and Historical Fiction)
Lifeboat 5 by Susan HoodLife has become unbearable for Bess in London, 1940. The Germans are bombing the city all the time, and she is scared. Plus she hates the girls at her school who have been bullying her. Maybe the way out is throug...
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