MIDDLE GRADE FICTION: Bang, Bang, YOU’RE DEAD
MIDDLE GRADE FICTION: Bang, Bang, YOU’RE DEAD
Middle grade fiction, middle grade students, and middle grade literacy is the reason I became a children’s book author in the first place. The problem I have is all the violence we are feeding our middle grade children.
Over the weekend, my wife and I walked into a pizza joint to eat dinner and this was the first thing we saw; little boys holding guns while playing the arcade games. There is nothing wrong with arcade games, don’t get me wrong, but the image of this Tween holding a gun was…