28): The sudden death of Collin’s mother and his father’s inability to cope, let alone help his son, have contributed to the sixth grader’s severe anxiety. Worst-Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara (Charlesbridge, Sept. These fall 2021 titles are notable for the resonant ways their authors speak to the fullness of middle-grade readers’ lives, not shying away from difficult truths but also highlighting small triumphs, everyday joys, and realistic hopes. Sometimes a child is living through challenges and needs to see that they are not alone sometimes they benefit from understanding someone else’s experiences so they can be a better friend.
Without lecturing or condescending, they make their books welcoming spaces to explore hard topics that often have no tidy resolutions. The teacher reported that using the book with his students had “been an amazing experience since it has opened their minds and their eyes to situations they had never experienced.…Many students have told me it’s the best book they’ve ever read.…One of my students said he is now a better person because he’ll be able to understand things he couldn’t before.”Ī hallmark of memorable middle-grade writing is that the authors see through the eyes of children with an awareness that simply being young is no protection against tough times or an obstacle to understanding life’s complexities. Jerry Craft, author of the multiaward-winning graphic novel New Kid, about an African American boy navigating a mostly White prep school, recently shared a message he received from a sixth grade English teacher in Brazil.
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