15 must-read middle grade books like Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca

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Midsummer's Mayhem

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare…

"The sun-dried tomatoes were robust and sweet and played well with the salty Parmesan. The oregano added a floral note, and the fennel made it energizing and playful."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"The sun-dried tomatoes were robust and sweet and played well with the salty Parmesan. The oregano added a floral note, and the fennel made it energizing and playful."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"If he were a baked treat, he'd be a seven-layer bar- the perfect combination of sweet and salty, exotic coconut and homey caramel, and supported by a good, strong, buttery shortbread crust."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"Kiera reached into the paper bag and held out one of Vik's cupcakes. Even in the dim and musty hangout, it practically glowed with beauty, and the roses smelled intoxicating. Roses, for love of all types, and longing ."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

If you liked the middle grade plot in Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolen, Shadra Strickland

1. Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary

By: Jerdine Nolen , Shadra Strickland

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza's mother has been sent away and it is Abbey, the cook, wh… read more

Similar categories in Jerdine Nolen's Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
  • childrens
Cover of Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

2. Lyddie

By: Katherine Paterson

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

When ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their fa… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Paterson's Lyddie book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction

3. The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman) (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, #5)

By: Nathan Hale

5.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hale's The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman) (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, #5) book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
Cover of Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

4. Elijah of Buxton

By: Christopher Paul Curtis

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Newbery Medalist and CSK Award winner Christopher Paul Curtis's debut middle-grade/young-YA novel f… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Paul Curtis's Elijah of Buxton book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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5. Tortilla Sun

By: Jennifer Cervantes

4.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Izzy discovers a beat-up baseball marked with the words "Becausemagic" while u… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Cervantes's Tortilla Sun book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy

6. Day of Tears

By: Julius Lester

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, G… read more

Similar categories in Julius Lester's Day of Tears book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

7. How I Became a Ghost

By: Tim Tingle

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Hardcover

Told in the words of Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the Trail of Tears, HOW I BECAME A G… read more

Similar categories in Tim Tingle's How I Became a Ghost book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

8. As Long as the Rivers Flow

By: Larry Loyie , Constance Brissenden , None

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction In the 1800s, the education of … read more

Similar categories in Larry Loyie's As Long as the Rivers Flow book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

9. Jefferson's Sons

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

4.25

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of Thomas Jefferson's slave children Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston are Thom… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's Jefferson's Sons book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

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10. Beyond the Filigree Wall (Rivenwilde, #1)

By: Melissa Wright

3.48

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A dark curse. A deadly secret. The ill-fated girl at the heart of both. Antonetta Ostwind is abo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Wright's Beyond the Filigree Wall (Rivenwilde, #1) book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • fantasy
  • magic
  • fiction
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11. Prairie Lotus

By: Linda Sue Park

4.29

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Prairie Lotus is a book about a girl determined to fit in and realize her dreams: getting an educat… read more

Similar categories in Linda Sue Park's Prairie Lotus book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)

By: Kaela Rivera

4.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Living in the remote town of Tierra del Sol is dangerous, especially in the criatura months, when p… read more

Similar categories in Kaela Rivera's Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1) book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"I was wandering through the cerros - the hills of the desert beyond town - at night, barely avoiding low heads of cactus. In the dark, their spines looked more menacing than they did under the sun. B…"

-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)

"Because if I was doing the right thing, if I was following all the goodness I believed in, that was good enough. I didn't care how much Little Lion yelled at me or hated me, or how much I reminded hi…"

-Kaela Rivera, Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls (Cece Rios #1)

Cover of The Last Musketeer (The Last Musketeer, #1) by Stuart Gibbs

13. The Last Musketeer (The Last Musketeer, #1)

By: Stuart Gibbs

4.25

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in the thrilling time travel adventure trilogy from New York Times bestselling Charl… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Gibbs's The Last Musketeer (The Last Musketeer, #1) book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Midsummer's Mayhem by Rajani LaRocca

14. Midsummer's Mayhem

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare… read more

Similar categories in Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • retellings
  • magical realism
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • magic
  • food
  • fiction
  • family
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The sun-dried tomatoes were robust and sweet and played well with the salty Parmesan. The oregano added a floral note, and the fennel made it energizing and playful."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"If he were a baked treat, he'd be a seven-layer bar- the perfect combination of sweet and salty, exotic coconut and homey caramel, and supported by a good, strong, buttery shortbread crust."

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"Kiera reached into the paper bag and held out one of Vik's cupcakes. Even in the dim and musty hangout, it practically glowed with beauty, and the roses smelled intoxicating. Roses, for love of all t…"

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

"A lime tart with pomegranate glaze." I put the tart on the counter. The crust was the perfect shade of golden brown, and as I cut into it, the bright red glaze contrasted beautifully with the pale gr…"

-Rajani LaRocca, Midsummer's Mayhem

Cover of Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story by Andrea L. Rogers

15. Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story

By: Andrea L. Rogers

4.04

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldie… read more

Similar categories in Andrea L. Rogers's Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody by Matthew Landis

16. The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody

By: Matthew Landis

4.16

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A trio of seventh graders become one another's first friends as they discover the secrets of a Civi… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Landis's The Not So Boring Letters of Private Nobody book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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17. A Seed in the Sun

By: Aida Salazar

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A farm working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for mi… read more

Similar categories in Aida Salazar's A Seed in the Sun book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • family
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders

18. Coop Knows the Scoop

By: Taryn Souders

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The whole town is talking about what's buried beneath the playground... Windy Bottom, Georgia is… read more

Similar categories in Taryn Souders's Coop Knows the Scoop book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Summer of a Thousand Pies

By: Margaret Dilloway

4.07

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Cady Bennett is sent to live with the aunt she didn’t even know she had in the… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Dilloway's Summer of a Thousand Pies book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • food
  • family
  • fiction
Cover of Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

20. Sisters of the Neversea

By: Cynthia Leitich Smith

3.89

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

In this modern take of the popular classic Peter Pan, award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith (M… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Leitich Smith's Sisters of the Neversea book and Rajani LaRocca's Midsummer's Mayhem

  • retellings
  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Then the stars turned their attention to the younger children of the family. The ones who hadn’t grown up yet. The stars knew what was coming, who was lurking. They always did. They’d seen it all bef…"

-Cynthia Leitich Smith, Sisters of the Neversea

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