PART TWO of the For the Love of Middle Grade starter pack. For the Love of Middle Grade is a FB group that's about connecting educators, librarians, authors/illustrators, and MG enthusiasts. go.bsky.app/2kymhkp
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Good Grief: Middle Grade Authors Normalize Loss
Explaining why they write about children who are grieving, authors describe experiences from loss of a family member to concerns about gun violence.
Such a response to the cover piece on grief and books for kids that acknowledge a universal human experience.
"Good Grief: Middle Grade Authors Normalize Loss" by Amanda MacGregor
Illustration by AurΓlia Fronty
#middlegrade #grief #mentalhealth
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If you also love #verseNovels, may I recommend my Starter Pack as an easy way to find and follow some of the awesome verse novelists out there!
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Hi #kidlit peeps! This starter pack is for educators, librarians, authors/illustrators, and MG enthusiasts in the FB group For the Love of Middle Grade. If you're in that group and not in this pack, comment and I'll add you. And if you're not in that group and love MG, join us! go.bsky.app/3KWmQJs
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Okay, I have added a second MG Author list. Please check both the #MGBookChat Authors and Participants list and this list before asking to join this second list. Please ensure that your bio has a link to your books/website or the name of your latest release. go.bsky.app/FAHZC7T
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Very classy, very demure
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Find other middle grade hub members and support the vibrant middle grade writing community.
To be added to the MGhub list dm Christiana at @doucette515.bsky.social
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6th grade English teacher, loves Nerdy Book Club folks, active with NCTE, writes βItβs Not Easy Being Tweenβ blog for MiddleWeb, book nerd, Michigander
β¨ Writer of Books / Eater of Snacks
β¨ APALA Honor Award, NPR Best Books
β¨ www.maerespicio.com
β¨ Author brand: tender+joyful+Filipino dad jokes
β¨ Agent: Jennifer Laughran
Author of MG mysteries, interactive chapter books, drama kits, and scripts. Creepers Mysteries: Haunted Cattle Drive, and Toadies. Audie and Saturn Award winner. Founder of Middle Grade Writers Group https://linktr.ee/MiddleGradeWritersGroup
Reader, book slinger, overthinker, chocolate and marshmallow fan
Writer, small business owner, book-loving troublemaker raising 4 book-loving troublemakers in ATX. My love language is baked goods. She/her. β¨ Libraries are magic. Use yours! β¨
Saving democracy one tiny step at a time: mollysarmy.com πͺ
Author. Artist. Wanderer. VCFA.
SCBWI. Repβd by Michelle Witte @ MansionStLit #kidlit #thegenesisretreat #TheOtherSideofLuck #TheSplinteredLight
Upcoming Middle Grade Author.
Currently working on my first MG Mystery Graphic Novel π½
Husband and wife author/illustrator team
Writer!
*Video Games (Star Wars: Jedi - Respawn Entertainment)
*Kids Novels (THE HUNT FOR THE HOLLOWER and THE SEARCH FOR THE SHADOWSOUL)
*Animation (Monster High, LEGO Monkie Kid, etc.)
*Comics (DC, Riot Games)
*calliecmiller.com | *VCFA WCYA | #kidlit
Writer (repβd J Mustelier @ Bent Agency), adopted Northerner & Hachette Childrenβs Novel Award Winner 2021 with Lily Grim and the City of Undone
New York Times best-selling author of ONE FOR THE MURPHYS, FISH IN A TREE, SHOUTING AT THE RAIN (Nancy Paulsen books/Penguin) Founder of #AuthorsLoveTeachers she/her
I am a retired teacher from California (thank goodness!) and now traveling as often as I can. Iβm an outspoken Democrat, and a bleeding-heart liberal. Joy comes from life, books, art, yummy food, and being the best grandma to 3 amazing humans. Hello!
Cartoonist | Funny Gal
Team Trash: A Time Traveler's Guide to Sustainability, out now with Holiday House | Goat Magic: August 2025 with Oni Press
All things child development. Author of βRaising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Can Help Our Kids Thriveβ and a bunch of picture books. Curriculum advisor for PBS KIDSβ βCarl the Collector.β I box, read, embroider, mom, and walk the dog.
Writer of all things #kidlit. Poems in LTP, The Toy, Wild Ink's Prom Perfect Anthology, and the Dirigible Balloon. Photos in Paddler Press. #SCBWI
Middle school #librarian who has read EVERY fiction book in my #SchoolLibrary. Posts a new #MGLit book review EVERY DAY at http://msyinglingreads.blogspot.com, where I've been since 2006.
Wife of a firefighter, mom of 2! A teacher librarian who wants to learn more. (Providence Middle School)
4th Grade Jedi Teacher
Lover of Math, Books, and Dogs
Disney Dreamer & former Cast Member
Allergic to Everything
MG & YA Writer; Mom of Teens; Hiker/Explorer; Highlights Scholarship Recipient; RMC SCBWI Golden Pen Award Finalist; WM Novel-In-Development Readerβs Favorite; https://megantroupbooks.com
editor/story coach specializing in kidlit | author of kids' books | freelance writer | she/her | upcoming bk: MISS MATCH | recent bks: HOORAY FOR TRUCKS!; SAME HERE; WALKING FOR WATER; LIGHTS DAY AND NIGHT | www.susanhughes.ca