![\"Juliet](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/juliet-dove.thumbnail.jpg\" "\\"Juliet")
Fellow Kid-Lit colleagues, I need a little help.\u00a0 I am the Childrens\/YA Librarian in a smallish public branch library.\u00a0 I have a 9-year-old female patron who keeps asking me for “romance” books.\u00a0 But without S-E-X, of course – seriously, she explicitly stated this.\u00a0 Like I was about to hand over an Elizabeth Lowell novel.\u00a0 But I digress…<\/p>\n
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The fact is, I’m stronger in YA and picture books than I am at middle grade fiction.\u00a0 So I thought I’d throw this out to the blogosphere… any ideas?\u00a0 Fuse #8<\/a><\/strong>, Big A little a<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Brookeshelf<\/strong><\/a>… you guys are awesome at middle grade stuff.\u00a0 Anyone else?\u00a0 Whoever comes up with the most titles gets… um…\u00a0a free set of Edward Tulane postcards.\u00a0 And my undying affection.<\/p>\n Oh, and I should mention… she’s reading\u00a0at\u00a0grade level (4th) – maybe\u00a0slightly above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fellow Kid-Lit colleagues, I need a little help.\u00a0 I am the Childrens\/YA Librarian in a smallish public branch library.\u00a0 I have a 9-year-old female patron who keeps asking me for “romance” books.\u00a0 But without S-E-X, of course – seriously, she explicitly stated this.\u00a0 Like I was about to hand over an Elizabeth Lowell novel.\u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etcetera","category-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Princess](\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/princess-academy.thumbnail.jpg\" "\\"Princess")
Today I gave her Juliet Dove, Queen of Love by Bruce Coville<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 We were also contemplating\u00a0Princess Academy by Shannon Hale<\/a><\/strong> (I haven’t read it, but it’s got the sort of thing she seems to mean when she says romance – princesses and princes), but based on reviews I think it may be a little long, and a little short on the actual princess-getting-together-with-prince.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n