Middle Grade Novels We Recommend
Winner of the Asian / Pacific American Award for Children's Literature!
* "Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Mia Tang has a lot of secrets.
$8.99ISBN: 9780060530945Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: HarperCollins - December 24th, 2018The 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech.
IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD TO RAISE A CHILD.
$8.99ISBN: 9780147510488Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Puffin Books - May 31st, 2016*Newbery Honor book
*Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award
This #1 New York Times bestseller is an exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Fighting Words, and for fans of Fish in a Tree and Sarah, Plain and Tall.
$8.99ISBN: 9780544540286Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Clarion Books - November 1st, 2016New York Times Bestseller
National Book Award Nominee
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery
It’s wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler’s inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers’ adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing.$7.99ISBN: 9780062498472Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Walden Pond Press - January 8th, 2019"A charming and delectably sweet debut.
$7.99ISBN: 9780062015068Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Walden Pond Press - January 2nd, 2013The winner of numerous awards and recipient of four starred reviews, Anne Ursu's Breadcrumbs is a stunning and heartbreaking story of growing up, wrapped in a modern-day fairy tale.
$6.99ISBN: 9780545525534Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Arthur A. Levine Books - April 28th, 2015"A political heist page-turner set in middle school? Is that even possible? Varian Johnson shows us how it's done." - Gordon Korman, author of SWINDLE
"Do yourself a favor and start reading immediately." - Rebecca Stead, author of WHEN YOU REACH ME
$8.99ISBN: 9781419740930Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Harry N. Abrams - March 3rd, 2020$7.99ISBN: 9780385755559Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Yearling - March 8th, 2016Fans of Katherine Applegate and Erin Entrada Kelly will love this quirky story of a determined girl, and some extraordinary chickens.
$7.99ISBN: 9781368023566Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Rick Riordan Presents - March 19th, 2019Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this fantasy adventure by New York Times best-selling author, Roshani Chokshi, inspired by the great epics she grew up on.Named one of 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Time magazine!$16.99ISBN: 9781547602810Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Bloomsbury Children's Books - February 4th, 2020"[A] deftly layered mystery about family, friendship, and the struggle to speak up." - Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Speak and Shout
From acclaimed author Kate Messner comes the powerful story of a young girl with the courage to make her voice heard, set against the backdrop of a summertime mystery.
$16.99ISBN: 9781250196705Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) - January 8th, 2019"Sometimes a story comes along that just plain makes you want to hug the world. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is Dan Gemeinhart’s finest book yet — and that’s saying something. Your heart needs this joyful miracle of a book." —Katherine Applegate, acclaimed author of The One and Only Ivan and Wishtree
A 2020 ILA Teachers’ Choice$16.99ISBN: 9780316456388Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020Award-winning YA author Brandy Colbert's debut middle-grade novel about the only two Black girls in town who discover a collection of hidden journals revealing shocking secrets of the past.
$7.99ISBN: 9780735229280Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Puffin Books - February 12th, 2019***A New York Times Editors’ Choice***
A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home--with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series.$7.99ISBN: 9781536212587Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Candlewick - April 7th, 2020“The realistic portrayal of a complex young Latina’s life is one many readers will relate to. . . . Medina cruises into readers’ hearts.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
$17.99ISBN: 9781536204940Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Candlewick - March 24th, 2020A boy on the run. A girl determined to find him. A compelling fantasy looks at issues of privilege, protest, and justice.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062881687Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Quill Tree Books - March 31st, 2020“We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the spirit in a time of darkness.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street
$17.99ISBN: 9780062698957Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Balzer + Bray - February 4th, 2020From the author of the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling novel Pax comes a gorgeous and moving middle grade novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere.
$16.99ISBN: 9781328781505Availability: On Our Shelves Now! When you order, we'll contact you to confirm when we have it reserved for you.Published: Clarion Books - March 3rd, 2020Prairie Lotus is a powerful, touching, multilayered book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an education, becoming a dressmaker in her father’s shop, and making at least one friend. Acclaimed, award-winning author Linda Sue Park has placed a young half-Asian girl, Hanna, in a small town in America’s heartland, in 1880.$16.99ISBN: 9781368022828Availability: This book is in stock at the warehouse so we can get it for you within a few days.Published: Rick Riordan Presents - March 5th, 2019Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents a brilliant sci-fi romp with Cuban influence by Carlos Hernandez, winner of the 2020 Pura Belpré Award.What would you do if you had the power to reach through time and space and retrieve anything you want, including your mother, who is no longer living (in this universe, anyway)?
