Falling Short
By: Ernesto Cisneros
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a…
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1. How to Become a Planet
By: Nicole Melleby
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For Pluto, summer has always started with a trip to the planetarium. It’s the launch to her favorit… read more
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2. The Lost Year
By: Katherine Marsh
4.50
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade survival story that traces a family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine … read more
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- childrens
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- middle grade
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- audiobook
3. The Fort
By: Gordon Korman
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of RESTART, the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" -- five fri… read more
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- childrens
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4. A Rover's Story
By: Jasmine Warga
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade novel about the journey of a fictional Mars rover. Meet Resilience, a Mars rover… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- school
- middle grade
- fiction
- juvenile
5. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration
By: Elizabeth Partridge
4.53
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
6. Tumble
By: Celia C. Pérez
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The First Rule of Punk, a dazzling novel about a young girl who co… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- sports
- juvenile
7. Chester Keene Cracks the Code
By: Kekla Magoon
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Cracking the code isn't all it's cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta S… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
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8. Cookies & Milk
By: Shawn Amos
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It’s a summer of family, friendship, and fun fiascos in this semi-autobiographical novel that’s as … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- family
- audiobook
9. Lasagna Means I Love You
By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Library Binding
What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more
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- audiobook
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- middle grade
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10. Muhammad Najem, War Reporter: How One Boy Put the Spotlight on Syria
By: Muhammad Najem
4.56
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A teenage boy risks his life to tell the truth in this gripping graphic memoir by youth activist Mu… read more
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- middle grade
- family
11. Maizy Chen's Last Chance
By: Lisa Yee
4.29
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
Welcome to The Golden Palace! Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota. . . until now. Her… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
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"When you're in a position to help, that means you're in a good place in your own life."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
"Sometimes people don't know their dreams until they're in it. Other times, their dreams escape them because they are too busy being busy."-Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen's Last Chance
12. Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
By: Susan Hood
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias "Anna") and her s… read more
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- middle grade
13. Hummingbird
By: Natalie Lloyd
4.37
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more
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- audiobook
14. A Duet for Home
By: Karina Yan Glaser
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Told from the perspective of biracial sixth-graders June and Tyrell, two children living in a homel… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
15. Falling Short
By: Ernesto Cisneros
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A novel about two best friends who must rely on each other in unexpected ways. Isaac and Marco a… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- school
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- sports
- juvenile
16. Hear Me
By: Kerry O'Malley Cerra
4.30
Format: None pages, None
This #ownvoices contemporary middle-grade novel follows twelve-year-old Rayne who, at odds with her… read more
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- audiobook
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- juvenile
"Do you ever wish you could hear?" "I can hear. I just listen differently than you." hardcover page 270"-Kerry O'Malley Cerra, Hear Me
"Mr. Lazar says, "Hearing loss is just that, a loss. It can be just as traumatic as losing a loved one or a pet, and it takes time to move on. So I wonder, have you all really given yourselves, and es…"-Kerry O'Malley Cerra, Hear Me
17. Shine On, Luz Véliz!
By: Rebecca Balcárcel
4.28
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A beautiful coming-of-age story for fans of Front Desk and Merci Suárez Changes Gears , this book c… read more
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- childrens
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- family
- sports
- juvenile
"The self is not discovered, but created."-Rebecca Balcárcel, Shine On, Luz Véliz!
18. Anybody Here Seen Frenchie?
By: Leslie Connor
4.16
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A big-hearted, beautiful, and funny novel told from multiple viewpoints about neurodiversity, frien… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- juvenile
19. Air
By: Monica Roe
4.24
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An action-packed, empowering middle grade novel about a girl who has to speak up when her wheelchai… read more
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- audiobook
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- sports
- juvenile
20. Over and Out
By: Jenni L. Walsh
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The story of a young girl from Cold War East Berlin forced to spy for the secret police... but who … read more
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21. The Ruby Code
By: Jessica Khoury
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From Jessica Khoury comes a high-action sci-fi adventure about a video game AI come to life. Warcro… read more
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- middle grade
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"Every enemy can be beaten. All you need is the right team at your back."-Jessica Khoury, The Ruby Code
"VR addictions take it to a new level. People are found dead everyday in their beds or couches, with their VR helmets still on, their games still running. They die of starvation, thirst, heart attacks…"-Jessica Khoury, The Ruby Code
