Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask
By: Shiko Nguru
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
12-year-old Mwikali is moving to a new school in Nairobi and just wants her life to be normal. But …
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1. Fire, Bed, and Bone
By: Henrietta Branford
3.81
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
The narrator of this tale is a hunting dog, living in a peasant household in 1381. Unrest is spread… read more
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2. Swim Team
By: Johnnie Christmas
4.28
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Mana… read more
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3. Tyger
By: S.F. Said
4.17
Format: 304 pages, None
In a strange alternate world, where the British Empire has never ended, a young boy called Adam has… read more
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- fantasy
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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5. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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6. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
By: Bolu Babalola
3.96
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more
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"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
7. Big Tree
By: Brian Selznick
4.04
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The fate of all life on Earth may depend on the bravery of two little seeds in this epic adventure … read more
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8. 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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9. Ride On
By: Faith Erin Hicks
4.04
Format: 224 pages, None
In Ride On, this middle grade graphic novel from Faith Erin Hicks, twelve-year-old Victoria is burn… read more
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10. 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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"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
11. The Manifestor Prophecy (Nic Blake and the Remarkables, #1)
By: Angie Thomas
4.19
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
Internationally bestselling superstar author Angie Thomas makes her middle grade debut with the lau… read more
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- fantasy
12. Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
By: Huma Qureshi
3.89
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
A collection about mothers and daughters, children lost, unborn, grown up, grown apart, and the dis… read more
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"Every day I looked up at the sky and I longed for the day that I might escape."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I look back now and I want to shake myself. I want to say, do not think so long about what you cannot plan for. Do not take so long. Do it. Do it anyway."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"Our star-crossed moments may have lasted only milliseconds, but they filled the whole of my small schoolgirl world and kept it turning, like shafts of dust dancing gold in a splinter of sunlight."-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
"I accept time has passed and we have changed and there is an emptiness now in which we have nothing left to say because it has all been said already, because there are no words left between us any mo…"-Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love
13. Omar Rising
By: Aisha Saeed
4.22
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him - the… read more
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14. 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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15. Honestly Elliott
By: Gillian McDunn
4.33
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes finding yourself can be a little messy. Elliott has been struggling since starting mid… read more
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"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott
16. 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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17. Just Harriet
By: Elana K. Arnold
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of A Boy Called Bat comes a new young middle grade series in the trad… read more
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18. The List of Unspeakable Fears
By: J. Kasper Kramer
3.90
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The War That Saved My Life meets Coraline in this chilling middle grade historical novel from the a… read more
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19. The Summer of June
By: Jamie Sumner
4.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade book about a young girl who sets out to overcome her anxiety over the course of one … read more
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20. Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask
By: Shiko Nguru
4.09
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
12-year-old Mwikali is moving to a new school in Nairobi and just wants her life to be normal. But … read more
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21. Moonflight
By: Gill Lewis
4.14
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
Can a timid rat ever become a hero? Tilbury is about to find out on the adventure of a lifetime,… read more
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