Wendy Davis

Just finished this really lovely sci-fi/dystopian middle grade novel. Great story and surprisingly emotional at the end! #kidlit #reading #books #schoollibraries 📚👍

The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss The Escape Game is a gripping YA murder mystery with clever puzzles, vivid tension and twists around every corner.

The Escape Game by Marissa Meyer and Tamara Moss. 📚👍🏼
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The Escape Game is a gripping YA murder mystery that blends an escape-room game show with vivid tension, clever puzzles, sabotage, betrayal and a dark...

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It's time!! THE BURN BEAST is now available for request on Netgalley!!! My middle grade horror releases Sep 15 and contains:

-small town mysteries
-sapphic crushes
-freaky woods monsters
-climate feels
-detective moms
-unhinged folklore
-lots of axes
-RAGE

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Book Review: "Hoodoo" By Ronald L. Smith

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This book is SO GOOD, attention #UKKidlit

From 7am on 17.02.26 until 23.59 on 20.02.26, you can get 25% off HOW TO STEAL THE FUTURE if you enter 'FEB26' at the checkout. This offer is exclusively on the Waterstones website and Waterstones app and available to all customers. Pre-order HOW TO STEAL THE FUTURE now! Future You will thank you...

The new cover of The Call. It features a girl with a spear, standing in front of an otherworldly portal. She is threatened by a giant pair of creepy, taloned, hands.

Today is the day! Or a day, anyway.
The Call in its spanking new cover is available right... this... second... in bookshops across Ireland and the UK. Woohoo!
My publisher sent me flowers too 😀

Honored to share these words about THE VISITORS from one of my favorite middle-grade authors, the goddess Natalie Lloyd.

The paperback edition will be released on April 7, 2026. Available for preorder now. (FYI - Preorders really help authors like me!)
#MiddleGradeBooks
#TeacherLibrarian
#KidLit

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Just scroll down to the reviews and look out for one by Wendy Davis!

Front cover of Dead Real, written and illustrated by Poppy T Perry, showing two teenage girls standing on top of a pile of burning cars, one brandishing a hockey stick, the other a cricket bat. Below them, several hands are reaching up towards the girls. It includes the tagline: Grab your zom-stompers and a spare pair of pants, it’s about to get real…

💙📚Book Review📚👍

If you love movies like Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead, you’ll love Dead Real by @poppytperry.bsky.social

Read my review at: amzn.eu/d/06LJRp7k

#LGBTQLit #YALit #Horror #Zombies #WritingCommunity

EPISODE 168 – Middle Grade Horror Panel EPISODE 168 – Middle Grade Horror Panel Stream on Libsyn (click here) Direct Download (click here) We Bleed Orange & Black: the podcast for Halloween & Horror Lovers! Join us as we intervie…

Out today on The We Bleed Orange and Black podcast @webobpodcast.bsky.social ...
I talk MG horror with host @carterwroteit.bsky.social and @allyoutthere.bsky.social!!!!
Go hear me ramble incoherently...I am delightful.

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#TBRuary 1
I almost never see anyone talking about this middle grade trio that starts with HIDE AND SEEKER, and there's a 3rd book in this universe this August!!

I think Stranger Things was still very hot when this book came out and it does share many good qualities with that show's early seasons.

To support #ReadItForward2026, you can also PRE-ORDER my brand-new adventure, HOW TO STEAL THE FUTURE, during February and @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social will donate 10% to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social !
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Happy Middle Grade Monday, all!!! Let’s talk ANOTHER by Paul Tremblay!

Have you read Undercover Angel : Crash Landing? Do you want to know what happens next? 🫣 Pre-order book 2, Grounded, today to find out what's really in the school basement! Links below 👇
@tinytreebooks.bsky.social #ukkidlit #undercoverangel #funnybooksforkids @cbnnetwork.bsky.social 🧵 (1/2)

Book cover for "X Marks the Haunt" by Lindsay Currie. Two pale, skeletal hands with long, sharp fingernails reach toward the center from the left and right. In the center of the image, a glowing red skeleton key is suspended in the air. "X MARKS THE HAUNT" is written in a large, white font that looks like it was painted onto the surface.

X Marks the Haunt is a phenomenal middle grade/horror book by @lindsayncurrie.bsky.social . Creepy and haunting in all the right places. The characters and plot were compelling. A scavenger hunt set in a cemetery, with mysteries and a little bit of history, all in a little package. #boosky #books

Soul Feeder – Demon Hunters by Jennifer Killick, illustrated by Marina Vidal Cover illustration © 2026 Marina Vidal With any new book from Jennifer Killick automatically going on my must-read list, when I discovered that she was joining the growing list of top-notch authors…

Out 04/06 for only the very bravest of 9+ readers, Soul Feeder by Jennifer Killick, illustrated by Marina Vidal, is guaranteed to give your goosebumps goosebumps 😱

@barringtonstoke.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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Three middle grade books for January If you’re ever craving a bit of adventure but you can’t quite stretch to a plane ticket, I recommend a good middle grade novel.

My latest #substack post introduces some middle grade books that I’ve recently loved. Fast-paced adventures, lovely friendships and talking cats -what more could you possibly want? 😉🐈

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Dungeon Crawl at the Haunted Mall Delve into the gnarly guts of a long-dead mall in this gloriously weird and whacked-out romp, where friendship, 80s music, and food court slushies are your weapons of choice against spandexed…

Really lovely page for my upcoming book, DUNGEON CRAWL AT THE HAUNTED MALL, on the Choose Your Own Adventure site: www.cyoa.com/books/d...
#books #kidlit #middlegrade #chooseyourownadventure

The Dad Trap by Ian Eagleton Cover illustration by Melissa Chaib © Scholastic, 2026 As I write, it’s early January – the Christmas decorations are down, the schools have gone back and for many of them the National …

Inclusive and written with enormous empathy, The Dad Trap by @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social is a fabulous and funny middle grade that needs to be in every school library. Out 15/01 from @scholasticuk.bsky.social

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

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Absolutely right! Middle grade horror is awesome! 👻

What Literary Agents Look for in Kidlit Submissions, with Erin Casey Westin What Literary Agents Look for in Kidlit Submissions, with Erin Casey Westin page for Writers With Wrinkles

New Episode! 🎉 We're kicking 2026 off with a bang! Beth & Lisa chat with @erincaseywestin.bsky.social, associate agent at Galt & Zacker Literary Agency, about the #kidlit market and how agents evaluate queries. Hot topic: What's up with middle grade? 😁
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My contribution to said national year of reading will involve waving this at people if they get funny about kids reading comics/audiobooks/books that are "too young" for them/funny books/books that aren't 500 pages long etc. lokibooks.com/lokifesto/ #GoAllIn #Lokifesto #UkKidlit

The book and its press release. The cover shows the silhouetted figures of 2 boys beneath the enormous open mouth of a serpent with glowing eyes that is lunging towards them.

I’m a huge fan of Jennifer Killick’s middle grade horror so am beyond excited to have been sent a proof of Soul Feeder - her debut for @barringtonstoke.bsky.social, illustrated by Marina Vidal.

Out 04/06 😱

#KidlitUK #UKKidlit

Book Review: "Stuffed" By Liz Braswell

Book Review: "Stuffed" open.substack.com/pub/reaganri... #stuffed #middlegrade #bookreview #fantasy #lizbraswell

"The house stood a little apart from the rest of the block, as if it did not quite fit in." —Anne Ursu, Not Quite a Ghost #FirstLineFriday

I loved this creepy novel with its chronic illness representation so much that I bought myself a copy. Highly recommend. #FirstLineFriday #Horror #MiddleGrade @anneursu.bsky.social

Nightbooks by JA White [Family Reads] - Falling Letters % My Dad and I discuss middle grade horror novel NIGHTBOOKS by JA White

📖🌿😱 New post! Dad and I discuss JA White's #MGLit horror NIGHTBOOKS for the last Family Reads of 2025

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Hope you feel better soon

The Why & How of Character Motivation Your characters and your plot all depend on the right motivations.

It's Monday and I'm lacking motivation due being sick. But, I most definitely don't want my characters to be lacking motivation. The Why & How of Character Motivation from Mythcreants has some good insights and tips for writers.

#MondayMotivation #WritingTips

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