Middle Grade March Giveaway: Mended Wood Literary Society
First off, don’t forget about our huge month-long giveaways that are still going on until March 31. You can read all the details on those right here. Secondly, read on for this month’s Mended Wood giveaway!
Just before we leave Middle Grade March 2026 forever, we had to squeeze in one more great giveaway. The other day, we told you all about the staff’s picks for middle grade books—we mostly love the classics, don’t we?—and now we’re giving one lucky winner their own set of all of these titles.
That makes this month’s giveaway our biggest one yet! As always, we will include a heavy-duty, not fragile, made-in-the-USA tote with our logo on it, ready for your trips to bookstores, libraries, and wherever your bookish adventures take you.
You can go back and read the post for more details on each title, but here’s a brief reminder of the titles included:
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- The Year of the Black Pony by Walt Morey
- The Penderwick Series by Jeanne Birdsall
- A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
- Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
One winner will win the whole shebang, but two runners-up will receive one of our fantastic bags as their prizes.
There are a few ways to enter this giveaway:
On Instagram: Follow @story_warren, like the giveaway post, and share the giveaway (be sure to tag us!). You’re welcome to tag a friend in the comments for extra entries, too!
On Facebook: Follow Story Warren, like the giveaway post, and share the giveaway (be sure to tag us!). You’re welcome to tag a friend there in the comments for additional entries.
No social media? Leave a comment on this post, naming one of the titles here that you’d love to own or give away!
Giveaway not associated or affiliated with Meta; ages 18+; US addresses only, please. Giveaway ends at midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 31, 2026; winners will be contacted by Tuesday, April 6, 2026.
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We haven’t read The Year of the Black Pony yet! Adding it to our list now.
We haven’t read the Pemderwick series! Such a great list of books!
The Wednesday Wars is such a fun book that I would love a new copy of!
We would like the Penderwick series as a read aloud I think.
I just finished “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy”, it was so well written, I would love to read Wednesday Wars. We also recommend “A Place to Hang the Moon” to anyone who will listen
I would love to try Inkheart – I haven’t read that one!
A Place to Hang the Moon
Would love to read A Place to Hang the Moon and Inkheart as both titles are new to me 🙂
Would love to read the Penderwick series!
The Penderwick series!
I have enjoyed Hatchet. I would like to try A Place to Hang the Moon.
The Penderwicks series is next on our list!
We would love to have A Place to Hang the Moon or try Inkheart!
We would love to have A Place to Hang the Moon and try Inkheart!
Would love to read the penderwick books! Thanks.
Would love to check out the penderwick series. Thanks.
Would love to check out the penderwick series. Thanks!
I don\’t know how I haven\’t read any of these series or books. I\’m saving this page to make a list, Christmas and Easter and Christmas again are going to be a blast for everyone(including me!) As for a book, I would recommend Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen. It follows Meg, a young and capable girl, through her escape from Nazi-occupied France. From secret codes to life changing decisions, Meg finds that not everyone should be trusted… God bless you all!
A Place to Hang the Moon!
Would love to read InkHeart. A place to Hang the Moon is incredible and our whole family\’s absolute favorite, so I would also love to gift it to someone!
Inkheart has been on my family\’s reading list for a while now! Definitely most excited for that one!
Thanks for the great list of books and giveaway opportunity. We would enjoy The Year of the Black Pony for reading aloud with boys.
The Giver is one of my favorite books of all time. I am excited to share it with my grandchildren.
Would.love to reread Island of the Blue Dolphin
Looking forward to reading The Wednesday Wars since they’re Sam’s pick! I hadn’t heard of that book before now.
A Place to Hang the Moon is unfamiliar…curious about that one. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
Have always wondered about the Penderwick series! Really enjoyed the uniqueness of Inkheart!
A Place to Hang the Moon is new to us and a book we\’d love to read!
I\’ve read Island of the Blue Dolphins and Hatchet. The rest are new to me and I look forward to giving them a try!
Ever since I learned to read I had fell in love with reading. Whenever I found a really good book I wanted to read Im always like, \”I\’ve got to write that one down so I can get the book\”. All of the books on the list I\’m definitely adding to my list of books I want to read. I can\’t wait till I get to read them, they all sound so interesting. My family and I have read Hatchet together and greatly enjoyed it – I\’ve also read Island of Blue Dolphins, great book.
I would love to start The Penderwick Series with my family!
P.s.
Thank you all for everything you do in aiding families in forming their moral imaginations!
I’ve always wanted to read ink heart! Thanks for the giveaway
I\\\’d love for our family to own the Penderwick series – we\\\’ve gotten them from the library, but the whole series on our shelves would be the bees knees!
Thank you for reaching kids and adults! Our entire family enjoys your books!
A Place to Hang the Moon touched my heart deeply. I’ve never heard of Inkheart – thanks for the recommendation!
Would love to pass along Hatchet. I finished reading it when I was subbing a fellow teacher’s class and loved it again.
The Wednesday Wars sounds good! We loved the Penderwick series except I couldnt bring myself to read the last one in its entirety. We were just coming off of a painful medical season ourselves and the pain and trauma was too much but other than that, great series!
We would love to read the Penderwick series.
Love the Penderwicks!
The Giver or the Hatchet would be amazing! I want my children and younger siblings to be able to have good books, and the whole basket looks like it\’s got good ones! XD
This is an A plus list. It\’s hard to pass up this fun opportunity. Wednesday Wars is a story that lingered on in my head way after I was finished reading it. I would regift to a family with young readers.
Do we really have to choose one? The Penderwicks have won the toss!!
I know that my son would love to read Hatchet to his son. It was a favorite of ours during his growing up years, and now it\’s time to begin sharing beloved stories with my grandchildren!
The Penderwicks, please.
We haven’t read Year of the Black Pony or Inkheart, so those would be fun to win! Enjoyed the Penderwick series and A Place to Hang the Moon.
We own the Penderwick series- but they are all torn and falling apart due to countless re-readings. The best kind of damage there is!
A few of these we have read, but don’t own our own copy… would love to have them for our home library. Haven’t read Inkheart, so that would be fun to win. Thank you once again for providing a way to enter outside of social media. It is much appreciated.
Would love the Penderwicks series!!
The Wednesday Wars
Have The Giver Quartet and it\’s a favorite read.
I would love to read a lot of these! The Giver, Inkheart, Wednesday Wars, Hanging in the moon….
A Place to Hang the Moon is one of my favorites ! I would love to try the Penderwick Series !
Loved reading The Wednesday Wars with my middle school students years ago! I have had The Penderwicks on my list for a long time!
I love Gary Paulsen\’s books, and am introducing my boys to his work. I\’d love a copy of Hatchet for our home library!
We will be starting with the Story Warren Bingo Card, and are very excited about the giveaway we love S.D. Smith\’s books so we would love to have all of his books!
As a young writer of fun, clean family comedy stories, I\’ve always been told I need to read The Penderwicks…and I would love to give Island of the Blue Dolphins to one of my readers locally who loves everything dolphins!
I love book recommendations! A Place to Hang the Moon and Inkheart sound like new books my kids will enjoy. The Year of the Black Pony sounds awesome, too.
As a young author of clean family fiction, I\’ve always been told I need to read The Penderwicks….and I would love to give Island of the Blue Dolphins to a young friend who loves everything dolphins. But I don\’t think anything will be able to beat The Green Ember (besides Lord of the Ring, forgive me, Mr. Smith!)
Well, we would love to read the whole lot! Particularly, The Wednesday Wars. We have read Island of the Blue Dolphins already and my daughter counts it as among her favorite books.
We have read The Giver. It is an amazing book. I read it at different life stages and gleaned something different each time. Inkheart and A Place to Hang the Moon are on our To Read list. A copy of our own would be great. Love the recommendations, please keep them coming!
I love this I would love to win for my soon-to-be middle schooler! I\’m loving the beloved books, bingo card and seeing how many I have read as a kid and already shared with my children and how many we still have to go!
I remember reading The Hatchet in school and really liking it! Can’t wait to introduce it to my oldest next year!
Penderwick series
All these books sound like a great read! The Giver is an interesting book. I might not give it to a young middle schooler though. I think a junior high and up would be more appropriate (just my opinion).
I love this! I’m not sure where to start but perhaps “The Penderwicks”
The Penderwicks Series sounds like fun. I\’ve never read it, but I\’ve heard good things.
I would love to read the Penderwick series! All of the other books sound great too!
I WOULD LOVE INKHEART
Looks like a great list for my kids!
A Place to Hang the Moon sounds interesting and is new to our family.
I would love to read The Giver and The Island of the Blue Dolphins with my sons! And probably we will read all of these. I love some good book recommendations – thank you!
It seems like A Place to Hang the Moon might be the front runner for me! Lots of good books to share
Wednesday Wars would be my pick to own, but they\’re all great books!
I\’d love to read the Penderwick series with my kids
A Place to Hang the Moon!
I am very interested in reading \”Inkheart\” by Cornelia Funke! I\’ve heard a lot of great things about it, but I simply haven\’t had the chance to get a copy before!
The Giver by Lois Lowry.
the Year of the Black Pony sounds good!
A Place to hang the moon is wonderful!
Ooh, I love thoughtful middle-grade fiction. I read a few of the Penderwicks books when I was younger. Something about a family of sisters appealed to me…perhaps because of my lack of experience with sisterly camaraderie as a girl with two brothers and seven boy cousins. :\’) (I\’m also fond of Little Women and Eight Cousins. I\’m sensing a pattern here…). I wouldn\’t mind having the series. Though, then again, A Place to Hang the Moon reminds me of my similarly book-loving brothers. My TBR list is getting rather large, haha.
All of these books sound great! I havent read any lf these yet so i will deffinetly be looking to check them out at my local library currently im in the middle of a green ember book!
I would love to read the Penderwick series with my kids. I think they’d really enjoy it!
A Place to Hang the Moon sounds fun to read!
We haven\’t read The Penderwick Series yet so that would be a blessing. 🙂
P.S.
We are so eagerly waiting for your next release in The Lost Tales series! 😀
We would love to read Island of the Blue Dolphins and A Place to Hang the Moon. We are already fans of The Penderwicks, The Giver, and Inkheart.
Would love to own A place To Hang the Moon but so many other great titles too!
We would love to own A Place to Hang the Moon but there are so many good choices here.
We would be most excited to read Island of the Blue Dolphins!
My daughter and I listened to the audio version of A Place to Hang the Moon a couple of years ago, and she was still a bit too young to appreciate it. I absolutely loved it though and would love to own it and read it with her again! All of these titles would be wonderful to add to our library ☺️
We need to read Inkheart! Adding it to our lineup for autumn Thank you!
Very interested in reading the year of the black pony! All the other books on this list are great!
I have a house full of readers, but we have not read The Year of the Black Pony yet! We would love to add all of these to our collection!
This is a great list. I had heard of or read almost all of these books but I had never heard of The Year of the Black Pony; I will have to make sure I read it!
Love the list! We\’d love to add Hatchet to our home library.
I have 4 kids ages 7-12. We have loved The Giver, Hatchet, and the Island of the Blue Dolphins. I just put all the others on our TBR list!
I love leaving little piles of life-giving books around our house for the kids to find and discover. I’d particularly like to add the Penderwick Series to our piles.
We haven’t read Inkheart but have heard it’s great!
We do not own most of these. Inkheart and Island of the Blue Dolphins are the only ones. Would love to own them all.
We’ve only read The Giver from this list. So excited to find a great list of books for my kids to read next. Thank you for sharing!
Island of the Blue Dolphins was a favorite of mine as a girl, and now my daughter loves it too! Middle-grades lit has a special place in my heart because of stories we can both enjoy.
We haven’t read several of these yet in our homeschool. I would be most excited about reading Inkheart!
The Giver is one of my favorite books of all time! After reading a different book by Gary D. Schmidt, I\’d love a copy of The Wednesday Wars.
Hatchet is one of my son\’s favorite books! And would love A Place to Hang the Moon.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is one I haven’t read, even though I know it’s a classic!
Inkheart is a new-to-me title but I’d love to win this whole stack!
Would love to read the penderwick series and the year of the black pony!
We love Bethlehem books, and have not read The Year of the Black Pony!
I\’d love to own The Wednesday Wars! I\’m interested in reading The Year of the Black Pony.
Would love to win Island of the Blue Dolphins and read all of them actually.
I’d love to own A Place to Hang the Moon. We enjoyed it so much from the library.
I\’ve always wanted to own a place to hang the moon
A place to hang the moon and Inkheart sound great to try next. We love the Giver and just ordered some of the Penderwick series. Our children are voracious readers like their mom!
We love the Penderwicks but I’ve never read Inkheart and a couple of the others. Always happy for a new book from a trusted source!