As the author of A Book of Princesses and Operation Bunny (for early and middle readers), were you worried about how dark Tinder is?
Gothic horror was thoroughly out of fashion in children's literature when, in the early nineteen-nineties, the writer Neil Gaiman began to work on "Coraline," a book aimed at "middle readers" — aged nine to twelve — in which he reimagined Clifford's demon as "the other mother," an evil and cunning anti-creator who threatens to destroy his young protagonist.
Rachel Vail is the critically-acclaimed author of a number of books for teens and middle readers, including the most recent, Unfriended.
The Sight was nominated for the best Middle Readers book in Amazon's Best Books of the Year (2007) and placed sixth out of the ten nominees, with six percent of the total votes.
They have also helped to create a new genre of fiction for middle-readers, mixing a gothic morbidity and a linguistic humor to produce a vision of an adult world that is helpless in the face of evil.
Ironically, a mainstream, middle-aged, middle-class reader of the New York Times is more likely to be able to name-check a Chinese noise rock band than is a 20-something hipster living in Williamsburg.
This is a novel to treasure and to share with every middle-grade reader you know.
The husbands seem — creepily, to the middle-class reader — not to have minded.
An upper-middle-class reader finds herself boxed in by a couple in a "red Ford Capri".
For the motivated middle-school reader, "Trial" is a worthy introduction to a complex process.
Her latest book, "Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes," is the first in Ms. Child's new detective series for middle grade readers.
