Put on your parkas and two face masks. You’ll need them for warmth as the mamas chill with a couple of Middle Grade survival adventure books set in the dead of winter. In one book our young hero lives in a frozen fjord just as life is about to go berserk, and in the second book the hero, plucked from the fjord and relocated to the prairie, battles a blizzard. If you can handle the cold, hang on until the end for a chat about reading in the time of COVID. 

Icefall by Matthew Kirby

Blizzard on the Plains by Heather Kauffman-Peters

Pick 2:

A Middle School Teacher’s Creative Way of Framing the Pandemic for Children

How Reading Habits Have Changed During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Reference Links:

Minnie Freeman

Amanda Gorman

Joseph Campbell