Middle Grade Novels of Courage and Creativity with Author Jaime Formato (E102)

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Jaime Formato is a writer, elementary school teacher, and tiefling rogue from northern Florida. Her days are spent hanging out with kids and reading, and the nights are for D&D, hockey, and writing. She lives in a little house by the woods with her amazing husband, their beautiful children, two cats that don’t love her enough, two dogs that love her too much, and a whole lotta nature. Her novel Roll for Initiative, a geeky coming-of-age story came out in Fall 2022.

Episode Highlights:

• Screening books for your children
• Different types of books
• Reading aloud
• Attention span and reading

Jaime’s book flight features middle-grade novels that highlight courage and creativity.

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• Purchase Roll for Initiative

Books mentioned:

• Warrior Cats series by Erin Hunter
• Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
• The Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin
• A Wolf Called Wander by Rosanne Parry
• Grady Hendrix books
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Good Inside by Becky Kennedy
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• Little Women by Louise May Alcott
• The Faery Handbag by Kelly Link
• Flip Turns by Catherine Arguelles

Book Flight

• Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt
• Lost Kites and Other Treasures by Cathy Carr
• Air by Monica Roe

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