The Legend of the Dream Giants | The Story of a Girl and a Big Friendly Giant | Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Fantasy of 2022
By: Dustin Hansen
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned giant named Berg is in search of just one person he can call friend. When he was ver…
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1. Something Like Home
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
2. The Probability of Everything
By: Sarah Everett
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and fac… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
3. Simon Sort of Says
By: Erin Bow
4.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Simon O’Keeffe’s biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a ho… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"Dad picks Denver [to get his rabies shots], and he's totally fine, but he's going to be away for three days. "Just like Jesus," Mom says. I can hear the phone say, "Isobel!"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
"In the tabernacle did the [squirrel]--" "Eat the Host?" says Dad. "Yes he did." "And was it--" "Consecrated?" says Dad. "Yes it was." ... "What, uh, happened to the squirrel?" "That squirrel is now 3…"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
"The dog- Todd?- looks up from its leaking beer, puffs a sigh, then crosses the room to head-butt the fridge door closed. "Ummm" I manage "Did you see he got a--" "It's okay," she says. "He only has o…"-Erin Bow, Simon Sort of Says
4. Miss Newbury's List
By: Megan Walker
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Before Rosalind weds, she wants to experience ten things. Meeting Charlie wasn’t on her list. En… read more
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- fiction
5. A Brilliant Night of Stars and Ice
By: Rebecca Connolly
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia—the one ship and her legendary captain who answ… read more
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- fiction
6. Summerhaven
By: Tiffany Odekirk
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Hannah Kent and Oliver Jennings pledged their hearts to each other as children. Now, years later, H… read more
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- fiction
7. The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)
By: Zeno Alexander
3.78
Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition
With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secre… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- fiction
- fantasy
"Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce>, rispose Malachi. , dichiarò Lenora. "-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)
"-Le Forze delle Tenebre vorrebbero controllare le persone, ed è sempre la conoscenza che glielo impedisce-, rispose Malachi. -Possono dominare solo dove c'è ignoranza, creare paura solo dove è stata …"-Zeno Alexander, The Library of Ever (The Library of Ever, #1)
8. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
By: David Alexander Robertson
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- fiction
- fantasy
"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
9. The Valet's Secret
By: Josi S. Kilpack
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
York, England, 1819 As a once happily married woman, Rebecca Parker had a good life, but now widow… read more
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- fiction
10. Wyoming Wild (Savage Wells, #3)
By: Sarah M. Eden
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Hearts collide when a sheriff’s daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice a… read more
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- fiction
- adventure
11. Thirst
By: Varsha Bajaj
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
12. The Legend of the Dream Giants | The Story of a Girl and a Big Friendly Giant | Kirkus Best Middle-Grade Fantasy of 2022
By: Dustin Hansen
3.68
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned giant named Berg is in search of just one person he can call friend. When he was ver… read more
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- childrens
- adventure
- middle grade
- dark
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
13. Trusting True North
By: Gina Linko
3.83
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
True North Vincent is struggling after spending months in lockdown because of a virus. With her mom… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
14. Games in a Ballroom
By: Jentry Flint
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
She was forbidden to love him. He only wanted her heart. Can a childhood game bring them together… read more
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- fiction
15. Hearts of Briarwall
By: Krista Lynne Jensen
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Lydia Wooding is fascinated by the latest inventions the new century brings, including motorcars. S… read more
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- fiction
16. Beyond the Lavender Fields
By: Arlem Hawks
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As the fires of revolution spread, can a Jacobin and a royalist put aside their differences to prot… read more
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- fiction
17. Even the Dog Knows
By: Jason F. Wright
3.78
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Here's the quick takeaway—read it!"—Herb Scribner, Deseret News "Themes of forgiveness, faith, an… read more
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- fiction
18. Worser
By: Jennifer Ziegler
3.93
Format: None pages, None
A bullied 12-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turn… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
19. In the Key of Us
By: Mariama J. Lockington
4.24
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama J. Lockington, c… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
"When people tell you who they are, believe them, listen, and love them. (from Mama to Andi, p. 48 of the hardcover edition.)"-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us
"You don't know everything about me'.... 'I guess you're right, but I don't know everything about me either. That's the whole point."-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us
"Some people in this world don't know how to love themselves, let alone people who are different than them. (from Mama to Andi, p. 48 of the hardcover edition.)"-Mariama J. Lockington, In the Key of Us
20. Best Nerds Forever
By: James Patterson
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
When a lifelong friendship just isn't long enough, two friends connect from beyond the grave in thi… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
21. The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura
By: Waka T. Brown
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this magical and chilling Coraline-esque retelling of the Japanese folktale “The Melon Princess… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
