Today is the last day for agents to request for #PitchWars, and let me tell you, the middle grade entries are incredible. I want to see each of these stories on a bookshelf STAT. https://showcase.pitchwars.org/category/middle-grade/

A thread of all the cool stories just waiting for an agent home...
MG #1: A diaspora Desi girl goes back to India, finds out she's descended from a malevolent demi-god, and must fight deities & monsters https://twitter.com/HetalWrites/status/1359729977911103489

@HetalWrites, mentor: @gaildvillanueva
MG #2: Estranged cousins must protect their family's haunted funeral home and cemetery and save the endangered ghosts, in epistolary format https://twitter.com/AlliCwrites/status/1359869418143113218

@AlliCwrites , mentor: @shakirahwrites
MG #3: in a future California devastated by annual flash floods, a 13-yo teams up with her rival to unearth secrets about her village before they are wiped away in this exciting cli-fi
https://twitter.com/seanmwrites/status/1359853191093882881

@seanmwrites, mentor: @mustlovecorvids
MG #4: 12-yo Lucy sneaks off on a 300-mile, Lord of the Rings-inspired quest to get rid of her grandfather's evil belt buckle
https://twitter.com/cecookwriter/status/1356353917664169985

https://showcase.pitchwars.org/pw2020-mg-the-fellowship-of-the-belt-buckle-contemporary-adventure/

@cecookwriter, mentors: @rajanilarocca @Remy_Lai
MG #5: A Honduran and American girl reluctantly join forces to stop sea turtle poachers. (Love the envtl theme, plus sea turtles!)
https://twitter.com/MariaJoseFitzg2/status/1359853634339672064

@MariaJoseFitzg2 mentors: @julieartz @jessicavitalis
MG #6: verse-novel about a girl with autism and sensory hypersensitivity standing up for herself against those who invade her personal space, while risking expulsion

https://twitter.com/ConfusedNarwhal/status/1359880240546332672

@ConfusedNarwhal, mentor: @IAmEricBell
MG #7: a brilliant girl stumbles on an Empire-threatening secret about a soul-possessing demon; she allies with snarky gods & knife-wielding girls to battle it, but risks losing her own soul in the fight

https://twitter.com/IsiHendrix/status/1359864025635504129

(this is my amazing mentee @IsiHendrix's story!)
MG #8: 7th grade journalist exposes her school's racist discipline policy, choosing between standing up for what's right or fitting in with friends

https://twitter.com/HMCWrites/status/1359919456722571270

@HMCWrites, mentor: @ChadGALucas
MG #9: Nonbinary Edi teams up with a haunted doll and young psychic to save their antique-dealer mom who's turned into a mannequin by a vengeful ghost

https://twitter.com/ShatteredSmooth/status/1359760149091659776

@ShatteredSmooth, mentor: @OhlerTJ
MG #10: When Hope's mom goes missing after she inherits an ancient book, she must brave all-too-real nightmares and draw upon her secret self-defense skills to save her mom.

https://twitter.com/Sonjawriter/status/1359751689008418817

@Sonjawriter, mentor: @Leeseray
MG #11: 11-yo Ukrainian girl pairs up with her twin brother and the legendary Baba Yaga to recover her grandmother's stolen story about her mother

https://twitter.com/alexottowrites/status/1359751866200907777

@alexottowrites, mentors: @L_Q_Nguyen @ByGeorgeJreije
MG #12: 10-yo Binyameen, finder of lost things, faces his toughest challenge when a local girl goes missing and no one but her brother remembers her

https://twitter.com/Whitsk/status/1359859133973843974

@Whitsk, mentor: @acuevaswrites @SarahKapit
MG #13: 12 yo Oliver is a YouTuber with something to hide... all is well until he goes viral and an honest mistake betrays his friend and threatens to expose his secrets

https://twitter.com/DarleneCampos91/status/1359878108824932352

@LML_writes, mentor: @DarleneCampos91
MG #14: Twin brothers accidentally open a portal into separate realms of Aztec myth and must go on the adventure of their life to find each other and save their family.

https://twitter.com/PeterxLopez/status/1359855479372021760

@PeterxLopez, mentor: @sofipasternack
MG #15: Oscar, a 12-yo necromancer, heads to Paris with his ghost BFF to search for the hidden treasure of his dead uncle.

https://twitter.com/michellehubb19/status/1359926700931309568

@michellehubb19, mentor: @erinentrada
MG #16: Popular kid Chase and not-so-popular Malik team up to restore their dads who've reverted to teens in an age-reversing machine (what a fun premise!)

https://twitter.com/enlightenedpen/status/1359852531380350981

@enlightenedpen, mentors: @CLiwrites @reesespieces21_
MG #17: 8th grade BFFs prank their way through school but land in hot water; while in community service they end up becoming period activists

https://twitter.com/LarkinLetters/status/1360607558759829504

@LarkinLetters, mentor: @RebeccaPetruck
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