#MMGM Middle Grade Review: Different Kinds of Fruit & Too Bright to See, by Kyle Lukoff
I'm posting today with t he fantastic Marvelous Middle Grade Mondays blog hop hosted by Greg Pattridge of Always in the Middle . Check out Greg's blog for a list of additional middle grade reviews. Since this is Pride month, I'm focusing my MMGM book reviews on middle-grade books about sexual orientation and gender identity. A note for those wondering if books like this are appropriate for middle-grade kids: 9-13 is exactly the age when kids are entering puberty and starting to think about love, sex, and increasingly, gender identity. That makes it exactly the age when they need books that openly address the things that happen in middle school besides using a locker and changing classrooms six times a day. If 10-year-olds are old enough to be thinking about kissing their girl/boy friends (and they are thinking about it, so... yeah), then they are old enough to read about it. Today I'm featuring two books by Kyle Lukoff that address similar issues in very...