unwrapping books picks what i read 🎁 wrapped up retro - episode five 

Omg someone run the stats on the likelihood of Meg picking another book from the unhaul pile 😂

I just used the same math for the odds as the original comment. Chance of 4 books is 0.02% 😂 (1 in 5,000)

Wrapped up episodes are always my favourites I’m so excited all the time what you pick Glad that you’ve found such a fun book wish you more like this💞

a murder most unladylike is a great middle-grade mystery detective series set at a boarding school in 1930's england!!

Middle grade, in the US at least, is specifically for 8-12 years old which is our 2nd grade through 6th grade. I think the equivalent grades in England are years 3 through 7. It's just like how one YA books can skew really young for 12 or 13 but another is older in langauge and thematic content for 17 and 18. Some middle grade skews really young and can be read by 7 and 8-year-olds but a 12-year-old thinks it's childish but a different book can be meant for 11 and 12-year-old and a 15-year-old can read it and enjoy it. The thing with publishing demographics is that people don't adhere to the standard idea of what their demographic wants or should be reading as far as publishing thinks. They're general boundaries but you have middle graders reading YA before they're out of the middle grade demographic and you have teenagers who read in middle grade despite the fact that publishing says they should be reading older in YA. And then you throw in all of the adults who genuinely enjoy consuming content for both publishing demographics and the whole system is pretty blurry again.

Hey beauty! This is Ayla who sent you "Bride" (: I'm so so happy seeing your excitement in receiving it!! This is exactly what I was going for 🥰 (and yes! you've pronounced my name super right!) I live I'm Bali now and also wanted to send you some sunshine vibes! ☀️🌻 so excited to see you reading it but your joy now makes it all worth it 💫

❤📚❤️ FUN! I love middle grade, and I'm excited for middle grade March! A Pinch of Magic series is good.

my favourite middle grade series are the murder most unladylike series and the eva evergreen series. i think you'd really enjoy the historical setting of murder most unladylike!

Amari and the night brothers truly is fabulous! I would also recommend in the same strain Nic Blake and the Remarkables it was soo much fun!

I cannot wait for you to read Bride!!

Love love love unwrapped! The chaos it brings is unbeaten

I have also found this series really enjoyable and there is actually a spin off series with the same characters but its more about espionage and they travel the world. I have also loved the Lizzie and Belle Mysteries by J.T. Williams which are about 2 black girls in 18th century London and them solving different mysteries. It does a great job of exploring issues of race within this historical setting. Definitely worth checking them out. :)

You absolutely have to check out Lucy Worsley's middle grade/YA. Theyre set in the Tudor court 1530s onwards and are really easy reading, I think theyre even on Everand (Eliza Rose definitely is!)

I remember reading this series eight or nine years ago as the books were coming out, and back then, it was one of my favourites. Also, just a warning, after The Sinclairs Mysteries, there's a whole other series called Taylor and Rose Secret Agents, which is another four books😅 Aside from this one, my favourite middle grade series is probably Amari & The Night Brothers (the second one is just as good as the first, if you need the spur to pick it up) and I also really enjoyed Time Travelling With A Hamster by Ross Welford.

So glad you enjoyed the book! Some of my favorite middle grade books are Greenglass house books (particularly #1, and #4 and #5 which are stand-alones but take place in the same world) and The Mysterious Benedict Society (I think the first is the best, but the rest of the series is good as well!).

What if you used the same concept for your reading vlog and still do the oldest books on your TBR but now they’ll just be different books since you read 4 of the oldest 😂 just find the NEXT 5 oldest. Can’t wait to see the vlog regardless of what you decide to film!

I just finished Ember & the Ice Dragons and really enjoyed it 😊 It’s a middle grade polar fantasy. It is by the same author as Emily Wilde but it was very different.

amari and the night brothers is definitely a new fave for me, i'm so excited for the third book to come out! other middle grade series that i would highly recommend are: the blackthorn key series by kevin sands (historical mystery), the uncommon magic series by rj anderson (fantasy mystery), the septimus heap series by angie sage (fantasy), the sisters grimm series by michael buckley (fairytale retelling and mystery) the magic thief series by sarah prineas (fantasy), the children of the red king series by jenny nimmo (contemporary fantasy)

Have you read the Adventures on Trains series? Easily my favourite middle grade mystery series. I do have others I like including Enola Holmes, Greenglass House and Last Chance Hotel, but AoT is the best!

Thanks Meg, enjoyed this! Really cool that the middle grade book came through for ya. Very nice coupla supporters sending you the 2 books. And as always your edits are delightfully funny -- thank you so much for those, always. 😉😅

My favorite middle grade series is the 'i am number 4' series. Highly, highly recommend it

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Fav middle grade books include A Song of Magic series (S. A. Patrick) Nevermoor, Amari..., Artemis Fowl books, howl's moving castle and the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness by Michelle Paver (first 6, i need to read the newer ones.)

I love The Polar Bear Explorer's Club series by Alex Bell. It's a wonderful fantasy adventure story with a group of kids who form such a sweet bond, but it also has some humor and a lot of exciting moments.

My favourite middle grade is "The girl who drank the moon" (a standalone which we love! If you've never read that one, I think you're going to love it) and I'm currently making progress jn the "Frostheart" series and the second one is so much more fun! I've been enjoying quite a lot (:

I had a feeling you'll get all the books from the unhauling video!!! I will take this opurtunity to go overboard with middle grade recommendations 😊. My favourite middle grade series since I was a child (I've been re-reading the books too and they hold up) is the Skulduggery Pleasant series! It's a fantasy/mystery series from an Irish writer about a skeleton detective and a girl learning about magic! It also starts off with the main character receiving almost all of her rich uncle's inheritance! The books are incredibly fun, funny and intiguing and the characters are all really sassy! It is very long though so I know you probably won't want to pick it up 😔 My second favourite is The Emerald Atlas trilogy, which has orphans being sent to a strange old house and time-traveling and solving the mysteries of what occured years ago in the town and also what their parents were involved with! It reads a bit younger than Skulduggery. Some honorable mentions: - The Spiderwick Chronicles - incredibly short books, illustrated, about sblings and wicked fairies; - Long Lost - read it for the first time last year (at 22 years old), it has sister dynamics, old libraries and maybe some ghosts, also the cover is incredibly gorgeous; - The Alchemyst - has some fun takes on alchemy, the philosopher's stone and immortal humans; - The Ulysses Moore series - reads younger too and is about siblings and friends exploring the mysterious house they moved in and finding some magic things there (there's time-travel in the later books).

I love your reaction to Bride - so cute

A middle grade book i absolutely love (though not a series) is a monster calls by Patrick Ness!!

Yayyy excited!! 😁

I think middle grade is marketed towards 8-12 years old. Also, the Edwardian era is 1901-1910.

I love these videos! So fun!

you should replace that vlog with one where you read books from your 2024 list of...if i don't read these I have to unhaul them. Give yourself a headstart! haha

I love wrapped up! 🎁 I need to pick up middle grade more often

I think my favourite middle grade (that I read as an adult) is Hurricane Child by Kacen Callender. Their books are just something special

My favorite middle grade series have been Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Eva Evergreen Semi-Magical Witch Duology, just started reading Pages and Co series and enjoying it, and Keeper of the Lost Cities series.

I love the Elly Griffith middlegrade Series

Nevermoor and the Aveline Jones series ☺️

I was really impressed with Show Me a Sign by Katherine Lezotte, a middle grade book about a girl from a historical deaf community, and there's a 2nd book too that i want to read!

I love middle grade! Blight Harbor series by Lora Senf is wonderful, the third book is coming out this year and is definitely an upper middle grade series, so has more difficult and adult themes throughout. Blight Harbor is horror, but Ravenfall by Kalyn Josephson is fantasy, and the third book of that series is also out this year! Middle grade is just amazing, will definitely pick up this series now too.

Loved this video. As for recommendations for a middle grade series. How about Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day Dominique Valente I enjoyed them as much as my middle grade. You won't regret reading the Amari series. Frostheart, Book 1 Jamie Littler was our favourite that both of us really enjoyed. Jamie Littler and 2 more

Vlog reading four other wrapped up books!

I love Nevermoor but the 4th book has been pushed back so many times 😢

I think middle grade is grades 4-6 (ages 9-12) in the US.

That is the age range we mean by "middle grade books" actually! Confusingly it's different to what we call "middle school" which is 6th-8th grade. I would like to file a complaint with whoever named this