Worth reading for #YA romance appropriate for #MG readers.

TITLE: Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To Do List
AUTHOR: Janette Rallison
AGENT: Timothy Travaglini @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
PUB: Walker & Co, 2005

#kidlit #mglit #booksky #middlegrade #bookrec #mg

SKANDAR AND THE UNICORN THIEF x CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE
12yo magicless Solekin has three friends and one question: who killed his mother? Armed with a friend's tech, a book drags him to war, then into the Underworld—where no gadget can reach the soul waiting there.
#DVpit #MG #SFF #DF #Asian

#DVPit #MG #ND
Charlotte needs an innovative clue for an elite letterboxing prize. De Htoo needs a project for NASA club. Teaming up on a celestial letterbox could help them both. If Charlotte can risk breaking her Rules for Staying Friendless & Alone, and the pain they're meant to shield her from.

DRAGONFRUIT X SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW

When fourteen-year-old Morning Star's brother goes missing, she’ll have to summon her courage and—with the help of trickster god Coyote—use her newfound song power to find him.

#DVPit #MG #YA #F #Latine #Native #WOC #OwnVoices

Hardly anyone believed the rumors that her boarding school was magic✨ until Nell accidentally erases the month of April and finds Time Police 🕰️ 👮‍♂️at her window, a secret world🏞️, and one shot to save her favorite people from vanishing forever. #DVpit #MG #F

After escaping the lab where they were born, three siblings learn to navigate their new lives and grow up as “normal” children. Roseate, the eldest, who tries to care for her siblings; Indigo, the middle, who is selectively mute; and Navy-Bloo, who craves attention.
#DVPIT #MG #MR #BVM

London Bridge 1666. The Great Fire. 11yo Bess is disabled and can't outrun it. Nor can the old, disabled and ill who have looked after her since she was abandoned aged 6. Her plan is simple - survive the fire, then learn to read and write to ensure their story is told. Simples! #DVPit #MG #DIS

Small Spaces X Paola Santiago and The River of Tears

Twins Lucy and Jack must survive three nights of campfire stories and unravel the secrets of Las Nueces Ranch before The Rancher traps them forever with the restless spirits of their family’s past.

#DVpit #MG #H #M #ND

#DVPit #MG #F #DIS #LGBT
A magical quest to save a kingdom from its evil conqueror? Heck yes! 13-yr-old Dez would much rather adventure than face his home life and depression. But as he and his friends go on the run to avoid execution, Dez finds the conflict’s more complicated than he first thought…

LORD OF THE FLIES x THE WRONG WAY HOME

Summer 1920. 8 children. 1 house. 1 games master. He’s a kid too, but this is his house, and it answers to him alone. Trapped in his games, they’ll have to get creative if they want to survive.
🐊 RevPit 25 winner
🐊 big 5 editor interest

#DVPit #MG #H

GHIBLI x DEL TORO
67k MG dark fantasy+series potential
When the Jinglebee takes Marcy’s mother, it leaves behind a silver bell that whispers her name. Marcy follows it into a war-torn world where grief wakes chaos magic, and Mister Lovely is waiting to see what she’ll become. #DVpit #MG #F

13yo Arii can’t dance with a liar. When she finds out her dance partner paid a bribe so that she’d be paired with him, she’s more frustrated and anxious than flattered. Now, Arii must decide whether to quit, sabotage the dance, or pretend everything’s okay when it’s not. #MG #DVpit #CON #BVM

When one of their friends mysteriously vanishes, a group of quirky middle-schoolers must unite, navigate treacherous forest, and unearth long-buried secrets to find their missing comrade before it's too late. #DVPit #MG #M #F The Strange Wonder of Roots X The Strangers X Finally Something Mysterious

THE TRUMAN SHOW
Chippo the chick lives in a world covered with everlasting mist. As far as he knows, he might be the last living being in the whole world. Yet his packages are still arriving! There is only one way to find the truth... Go into the mist.
#DVpit #MG #Mys #GN #ETERNALMIST

STARFISH x SMILE
Maya’s Chameleon Code:
1. Stay quiet
2. Stay small
3. Camouflage
Despite her code, blending in fails for the new brown girl in a metal scoliosis brace. Dubbed a “walking disaster” by the mean girls, will 12yo Maya hide or show her true colors, metal scales & all? #DVpit #MG #NV #OWN

Rules for hosting the dead for dinner: know what they like, have everything set prior, never reveal they're dead. But when Miles’s friend, Omar, is killed by immigration, Miles finds a loophole and runs away with his spirit, risking the family gift and Omar’s peace in the afterlife. #DVPit #MG #CF

TIME LOOP + ARABIAN NIGHTS

Fleur is cursed by a storytelling relative to re-live the same day as turns thirteen.
To get out of the cycle she must solve riddles, find a hidden scroll, and tell stories like her life depends on it. And it does.
👻 friends, ⚔️ fights, lots of monsters

#DVPIT #MG #F

TAP! On her mom’s typewriter—
CLACK! 12-year old Naima ignores the order to never touch the keys, yet finds her stories are less her usual fantasy and more horror that even she is scared to read…
TING!…and she doesn't need to tell anyone the typewriter types back to her, right?
#DVPIT #MG #H #MV #MH