This edition of the stacks brings you a few links of interest, some summer travels, my June reading stats / reflections and my July random galley pick. Let’s dig in!

In the last two months I wrote here, here and here about the middle grade category, so I was excited to see this article about middle grade in the June 19 edition of Publisher’s Weekly. I then of course immediately texted it to all of my librarian friends and we spent our morning discussing it ~ as librarians do.