“What age are your books written for?”

I get this question quite often, and the answer is both easy and difficult.

The easy answer is “middle graders.” If you go to your local bookstore and look for my Super Sleuth Investigator mysteries, or if you see a magazine ad for the Commander Kellie and the Superkids adventures, you’ll see that both are listed as “for middle graders.” Same with the Amazing Laptop series.

“Middle grade” is generally classified as that grade between childhood and teenage years–specifically ages 8-12. (Sometimes broadened to ages 7-13.) Though the term isn’t as popular as it once was, some More >