This year, one of our nominees in the Middle Grade Fiction category is from well-known YA author Nic Stone. In Clean Getaway, Stone presents readers with a middle grade road trip story featuring a mixed race kid:
A road trip across the south, one unconventional Grandma (G’ma), plus plenty of secrets/mystery make this a fun (and funny) middle grade read to remember. William, Scoob to his friends and Scoob-a-Doob to his G’ma, gets in trouble at school and is stuck home on suspension when his grandmother shows up in a brand-new Winnebago to spirit him off on a surprise road trip…
Click here to read the full Goodreads review by Middle Grade Fiction judge and middle school librarian Laura Gardner.