Imaginary: A Novel
By: Lee Bacon
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Lee Bacon’s poignant, humorous, and breathtaking Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, los…
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1. A Place to Hang the Moon
By: Kate Albus
4.57
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of World War II, Anna, Edmund, and William are evacuated from London to li… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Besides which, I really ought to send her a book instead. Though she’s not much of a reader."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"Fibs, you must know, are entirely acceptable when they serve the purpose of getting one to the library."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
"It is often the case that, at times of great anxiety, when the diversion of a good story should seem most welcome, one is least equipped to focus one’s mind on reading."-Kate Albus, A Place to Hang the Moon
2. The Shape of Thunder
By: Jasmine Warga
4.17
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Cora hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other,… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- death
- fiction
- contemporary
"I just want to be okay. I don't want to feel okay. I want to be okay."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"The more things you know, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise."-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
"Whenever I get a bad grade, I always try to explain to Mom that I did read the book. And just because I can't remember what color shirt the character was wearing in page six doesn't mean that I didn'…"-Jasmine Warga, The Shape of Thunder
3. Alone
By: Megan E. Freeman
4.14
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
4. 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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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
5. Odder
By: Katherine Applegate
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Meet Odder, the Queen of Play: Nobody has her moves. She doesn't just swim to the bottom, s… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
6. Rez Dogs
By: Joseph Bruchac
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs
7. 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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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
8. Willodeen
By: Katherine Applegate
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The earth is old and we are not, and that is all you must remember . . . Eleven-year-old Willode… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
"Mostly I avoided the Faire, with its teeming crowds that made me feel like I was being smothered. So much noise! So much forced merrymaking! Often I would see children there, ones I recognized from m…"-Katherine Applegate, Willodeen
9. 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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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- death
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Too Bright to See
By: Kyle Lukoff
4.13
Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition
A haunting ghost story about navigating grief, growing up, and growing into a new gender identity … read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
"I've only known what that truth is for a morning, but can't imagine waiting another second to start the rest of my life as myself."-Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See
11. Across the Desert
By: Dusti Bowling
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One girl sets out on a journey across the treacherous Arizona desert to rescue a young pilot strand… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
13. The Midnight Children
By: Dan Gemeinhart
4.16
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary story about a family of runaways who take up residence in a small town, and the ou… read more
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- magical realism
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"Stories, after all, are about choices."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"And determined is nearly always a very good thing to be."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"I’ll be your creep, Ravani Foster, if you’ll be my freak."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
"But the truth, sometimes, can be the cruelest thing of all."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Midnight Children
14. Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown
By: Steve Sheinkin
4.34
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Author Steve Sheinkin presents a follow up to his award-winning book Bomb: The Race to Build--and S… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
15. Finally Seen (Finally Seen #1)
By: Kelly Yang
4.46
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk comes a “involving, realistic” ( Booklist … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Dogtown (Dogtown, #1)
By: Katherine Applegate
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Dogtown is a shelter for stray dogs, misbehaving dogs, and discarded robot dogs, whose owners have … read more
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- fantasy
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
17. Ten Thousand Tries
By: Amy Makechnie
4.36
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A middle school soccer whiz’s determination to keep things from changing is tested when his father’… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
"I'm not gonna be most people. -Golden"-Amy Makechnie, Ten Thousand Tries
"Slow makes smooth and smooth is fast."-Amy Makechnie, Ten Thousand Tries
"The world is short on finishers. FINISH."-Amy Makechnie, Ten Thousand Tries
"The harder you work, the luckier you get!"-Amy Makechnie, Ten Thousand Tries
18. 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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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Brave Like That
By: Lindsey Stoddard
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Find yourself. Find your place. Find your brave. This uplifting tale, which award-winning author… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Count Me In
By: Varsha Bajaj
4.10
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An uplifting story, told through the alternating voices of two middle-schoolers, in which a communi… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Bunnicula: The Graphic Novel (Bunnicula and Friends)
By: James Howe
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Celebrate over forty years of the modern classic Bunnicula with this graphic novelization!Beware th… read more
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- fantasy
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
22. Cress Watercress
By: Gregory Maguire
3.67
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A lavishly illustrated woodland tale with a classic sensibility and modern flair—from the fertile i… read more
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- fantasy
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
23. Six Feet Below Zero
By: Ena Jones
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A dead body. A missing will. An evil relative. The good news is, Great Grammy has a plan. The bad n… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- death
- fiction
- contemporary
24. Imaginary: A Novel
By: Lee Bacon
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Lee Bacon’s poignant, humorous, and breathtaking Imaginary is an inventive story of friendship, los… read more
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- chapter books
- magical realism
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- death
- fiction
- contemporary
- fantasy
25. What Comes Next
By: Rob Buyea
4.15
Format: 192 pages, Library Binding
A stand-alone middle-grade novel about a girl who is dealing with the tragic loss of her best frien… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- death
- contemporary
26. Clues to the Universe
By: Christina Li
4.22
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is buildi… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why had I ever thought my dad would be the superhero? Mom had been standing in front of me all along, holding our world up on her shoulders."-Christina Li, Clues to the Universe
"Those were just successes. But how many failures did the scientists have to see? How many times did their rockets not orbit the planet, or not take off at all? How many times had they dreamed about l…"-Christina Li, Clues to the Universe
27. Paradise on Fire
By: Jewell Parker Rhodes
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age survival tale exploring issues of race, class, and climate change. Addy is haunted … read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
28. Wayward Creatures
By: Dayna Lorentz
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this animal friendship story, a troubled young boy befriends a wayward coyote after a forest fir… read more
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- chapter books
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
29. Controlled Burn
By: Erin Soderberg Downing
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Maia’s parents say she’s lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to … read more
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- chapter books
- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Time Villains (Time Villains, 1)
By: Victor Pineiro
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Adventure, bloodthirsty pirates, and about the worst dinner guest of all time. Javi Santiago is… read more
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- fantasy
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
31. One Small Hop
By: Madelyn Rosenberg
3.76
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen's classic Hoot, this humorous adventure story set in a not-so-dist… read more
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