My Booklist from 2019-2021: A Pandemic Survival Kit

My Booklist from 2019-2021: A Pandemic Survival Kit

Hello Everyone!

In the past 21 months, the pandemic has done great damage to our planet. When I look back, I remember every week there would be delivery on our doorstep. Whenever I opened the box, there would be a book or two. After I finished reading, I would post my reviews on this website. Many people started liking them, so I continued. And now it’s a part of my weekly routine. Looking back to 2019-2021, I remember the headlines on TV about racial injustice, insurrection, the Covid pandemic, famous people dying, and issues of refugees. Despite all the negativity, I found reading and blogging my reviews comforting. At the end of the year, I will discuss my writing journey and reflect on how it changed me. But today, I will be sharing my diverse book lists written by 70 authors. If you had read my previous book reviews, most of these books may sound familiar. If you are interested in a book from this list, please check out my reviews. My previous blogs have a nice summary of each book. 

Here is the list of books for middle-grade readers.

• Hena Khan

• Kelly Yang 

•  Veera Hiranandani

• Aisha Saeed

• Reem Farqui

• Saadia Farqui

• Jasmine Warga

• JK Rowling

• Supriya Kelkar

• Onjali Q Rauf

• Rajani Larocca

• Barbara O’Connor

• Erin Entrada Kelly

• Lisa Moore Ramee

• Sharon M Draper

• Padma Venkatraman

• Mitali Perkins

• Lynda Mulally Hunt 

• Aida Salazaar

• Pablo Cartaya

• Erin Soderberg

• RJ Palacio

• Ann M Martin

• Linda Sue Park

• Karen Hesse

Letters From Rifka

• Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

• Pam Munoz Ryan

Becoming Naomi Leon

Esperanza Rising

• Rita Williams Garcia

One Crazy Summer

PS Be Eleven

Gone Crazy in Alabama

• Cynthia Kadohata

Kira Kira

• Meg Medina

Merci Suarez Changes Gears

• Ann Braden

The Flight of the Puffin

Benefits of Being an Octopus

• Leslie Connor

The Truth As Told By Mason Buttle

• Cassie Beasley

Circus Mirandus

• Gennifer Chodlenko

Al Capone Does My Shirts

• Ellen Oh

Finding Junie Kim

• Erika L Sanchez

I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

• Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed

When the Stars Are Scattered

• Nidhi Chanani

Pashmina

• Jen Wang

Stargazing

• John David Anderson

Posted

• Gita Varadarajan and Sarah Weeks

Save Me A Seat

• Judy Blume

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

• Jasbinder Bilan

Asha and the Spirit Bird

Tamarind and the Star of Ishta

• Laurie Halse Anderson

Fever 1793

• Varian Johnson

The Parker Inheritance

• Jason Reynolds

Look Both Ways

• Jacqueline Woodson

Brown Girl Dreaming

• Thanhha Lai

           Inside Out and Back Again

• Christina Soontornvat

All Eleven

A Wish in the Dark

• Sayantani Dasgupta

The Force of Fire

• Lisa Fipps

Starfish

• Tae Keller

When You Trap a Tiger

• Rachel Lippincott

Five Feet Apart

• Jerry Craft 

New Kid

• Ruth Behr

Letters From Cuba

• Megan E. Freeman

Alone

• Holly Goldberg Sloan

Counting By 7s

• Alan Gratz

            Ground Zero: A Story of 9/11

            Refugee 

            Grenade

• M. Evan Wolkenstein

Turtle Boy

• George Takei

They Called Us Enemy

• Firoozeh Dumas

It Ain’t So Awful Falafel

• Taryn Souders

Coop Knows the Scoop

• Lucy Maud Montgomery 

            Anne Of Green Gables

• Scott Westerfield

Uglies

• Kwame Mbalia

Black Boy Joy

• Wendelin Van Draanen

Flipped

• Celia Perez

            Strange Birds 

• Jewell Parker Rhodes

Black Brother, Black Brother

• Samira Ahmed

Love, Hate and Other Filters

• Georgia Ball, Lauren Tarshis

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