Books In the Middle Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Summer is stretching out in front of Nina as one long event, with not a lot going on to break it up. Her parents are super consumed with a big trail case they are preparing for, her older brother Matt is getting ready to head off to college by pulling further away, and her best friend and neighbor Jorie seems more different than ever. So what’s a girl to do? Recommended for grades...

Send us Fan Mail When her family moves across the country for her father’s new job, Mimi has no idea what to expect. What she finds are people that keep asking “what are you?” Not the most welcoming question to ask a person. She knows she looks different, but that doesn’t make her different on the inside. As she struggles to find her place in this new town, she also struggles to figure out what is...

Send us Fan Mail Cheyenne was sick. So sick that she convinced her stepmother to leave the keys in the car while she ran into the pharmacy to get Cheyenne’s medicine in case she needed to warm up the car. Lying in the backseat she realizes, even as sick as she is, someone other than her stepmother has gotten into the car, and once he realizes Cheyenne is in the back, a carjacking has just turned i...

Send us Fan Mail It has happened again. Someone close to him has been taken, by violence. Gun violence. Will knows what he has to do. After all, there are rules that have to be followed. For example, no matter how you are really feeling, you can’t cry. You can’t snitch and you must – MUST – get Revenge. Will’s older brother, Shawn has been killed. Gunned down in the street on his way back from get...

Send us Fan Mail Emily was sick and tired of waiting around for her parents to stop playing heroes. She just wanted to go home; back to America and all the things she was missing. So when she hears her Uncle is visiting, she sees her chance to go back home. Only the ferry she takes ends up going down, and Emily begins to think she’ll never make it out of the water, let alone back to the States. Re...

Send us Fan Mail When Socko (short for Socrates) is told by his mother they are moving out of the only home he can remember to take care of a great-grandfather he’s never met, he wants no part of it. Not that things are great where Socko lives. He and his best friend live in fear of the local gang, the Tarantulas. Their leader, Rapp, seems determined to take them both out. Socko doesn’t feel near...

Send us Fan Mail There is a killer on the loose. Two girls that look like Stephanie have disappeared, but Stephanie still decides to walk home by herself one Saturday night in early fall.  When Stephanie is kidnapped, she can’t believe it, and she must use all her skills if she wants to come out of this alive. Recommended for grades 7th and up.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail One real reason that Wyatt Palmer was looking forward to his 8th grade field trip to Washington, D.C.? Yeah, nothing to do with Washington or the sights. It has everything to do with the girl of his dreams, Suzana. Even though she has a boyfriend, he just wants to be around her. It could have been a good trip, except for the fact that his friend, Matt, was kind of paranoid about t...

Send us Fan Mail Each Saturday like clockwork, Trell and her mother Shey head to Walpole to visit Trell’s father who is incarcerated for the murder of a young girl. He has no possibility of parole. He will live the rest of his life in prison. However, he says he didn’t do it and there were people who were with him at the time of the shooting. So why is he locked up in prison after being found guil...

Send us Fan Mail Backlash     By Sarah Darer Littman   It was hard to say why they had grown apart, at least Lara didn’t know why her once best friend, Bree, decided to pull away. But Lara was moving on and in fact, had gotten a spot on the high school cheer leading team, and she’s friends with a gorgeous guy, Christian, on Facebook. So when Christian starts saying awful things about her, she has...