Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel

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Move Over, Middle Grade: It’s Time for Young Teen Lit, a guest post by Christina Chatel and Marcia Kochel

This story begins with two middle school librarians, miles and miles apart, who both feel passionately that what publishers call middle grade literature is not what their students need or want. Unbeknownst to each other, they penned their thoughts and submitted them to School Library Journal’s Teen Librarian Toolbox, and their articles were published a month apart in the summer of 2024. Little did they know that their calls for action would igni…