Have your 2nd grade child use the five-finger test to see if the book is too easy, just right, or too hard. Ask the child to read a page out loud and for each word they don’t know, hold up a finger.

Her books, including Hiding Edith and Masters of Silence, explore the lives of young Jewish people who lived during the Second World War. Broken Strings is for readers aged 10-14.

Here are the Canadian middle-grade books and chapter books we are excited to read in the second half of 2022. The Book of Elsie by Joanne Levy The Book of Elsie is a book by Joanne Levy.