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 unless it is a holiday, however during the summer months, they will release every other week or so. Enjoy!
Books In the Middle Podcast
Latest Episodes
Slugfest by Gordon Korman (Contemporary Fiction)
Slugfest by Gordon Korman Yash is ready to move on from 8th grade to high school. He feels like he is pretty much there already since he has gotten to skip PE at his middle school and go play on all the JV teams at the high school.....
Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenko (Historical Fiction)
Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer CholdenkoMoose really doesn’t want to leave his home in Santa Monica to move to Alcatraz Island. His father takes a job as a guard so the family can get Natalie, Moose’s si...
Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes (Historical Fiction)
Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes Both Dieter and Spence have a few things in common - both have a desire to stand up for their country and do what they think is right. Both have families that care about them going to fight in the war, an...
Fever 1793 By Laurie Halse Anderson
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonMatilda, or Mattie as the cook employed by her mother calls her, is not thrilled having to do a ton of work around her family's coffee house. But when the city of Philadelphia is struck by disease that ...
Follow the Water by Ellen Cochrane ( Nonfiction and Adventure)
Follow the Water by Ellen CochraneWhen Juliane is 17 years old, she falls out of an airplane almost 2 miles up...and survives! What makes this an even more amazing story, is she is able to survive her days and nights in the Amazon jungle...
