City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
By: Alex London
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground drag…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Secrets between friends are like dragon bile."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"Um..." Abel feared "um" was officially his catchphrase."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"WW3D" they added, which was a code they used whenever one of them was feeling nervous about something."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag." "Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow." "But what if he's nonbinary?" Abel wondered. "And we've offended him." "Then he'll eat us." Roa considered it. "I can respect that."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
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1. 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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- science fiction
- audiobook
- middle grade
- adventure
2. Hunted (The Deadlands #1)
By: Skye Melki-Wegner
3.94
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Wings of Fire meets Jurassic Park in this action-adventure middle grade debut series by Skye Melki-… read more
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- adventure
- middle grade
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
3. The Insiders
By: Mark Oshiro
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Three kids who don’t belong. A room that shouldn’t exist. A year that will change everything. Pe… read more
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- lgbt
- middle grade
- young adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Be yourself. Be over the top. Outlast them. Show them that no amount of fear will ever make you chance who you are."-Mark Oshiro, The Insiders
"Be yourself. Be over the top. Outlast them. Show them that no amount of fear will ever make you change who you are."-Mark Oshiro, The Insiders
4. 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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- audiobook
- middle grade
- young adult
- adventure
5. The Clackity (Blight Harbor)
By: Lora Senf
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces , this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Tim… read more
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- audiobook
- middle grade
- fantasy
- adventure
"Time made the missing different, but it didn't make it go away."-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)
"I'd gotten so close, so close to being the hero of my own story..."-Lora Senf, The Clackity (Blight Harbor)
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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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
7. The Awakening Storm (City of Dragons, #1)
By: Jaimal Yogis
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Grace and her friends must protect a newly hatched dragon from mysterious evildoers. When Grace … read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
- dragons
- adventure
8. Ben Yokoyama and the Cookie of Doom (Cookie Chronicles)
By: Matthew Swanson
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Meet Ben, a literal-minded kid with a big heart and an even bigger sweet-tooth, who cracks open a f… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
9. A Kind of Spark
By: Elle McNicoll
4.52
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
A neurodivergent girl campaigns for a memorial when she learns that her small Scottish town used to… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
"No horrible, awful, rubbish day is worth damaging a library book."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Autistic people have probably done so much for hundreds of years without any credit."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"While you are neurotypical and I am autistic, I promise we are more alike than we are different."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
"Books are not medicine, they are food. You won't remember every bite but you will remember the taste."-Elle McNicoll, A Kind of Spark
10. 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
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- adventure
- middle grade
- young adult
- 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)
11. Maya and the Robot
By: Eve L. Ewing
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated middle grade novel about a forgotten homemade robot who comes to life just when aspi… read more
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- science fiction
- middle grade
- audiobook
12. 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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- middle grade
"The goal isn't perfection- the goal is making something new. (pg. 18)"-Gillian McDunn, Honestly Elliott
13. The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
By: Sally J. Pla
4.57
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Neurodivergent Maudie is ready to spend an amazing summer with her dad, but will she find the coura… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
14. Iveliz Explains It All
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Library Binding
How do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening? One girl takes on seventh grade while f… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
"and it's important to stop, be kind to ourselves, and ask for help- ask for love."-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"But you have to be somewhere I can find. You understand? Somewhere I can find. I nod, because I know what he is saying and what he is not saying. He can't find me if I'm not here. (p. 113 of the hard…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
"I am not okay, and sometimes I wish people wouldn't believe me when I say I am. I wish they would ask, just one more time, and I wish they wouldn't tiptoe around me like I'm a poem, so I could show t…"-Andrea Beatriz Arango, Iveliz Explains It All
15. The Boys in the Back Row
By: Mike Jung
3.88
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric mov… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
16. The Girl in the Lake
By: India Hill Brown
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Small Spaces, Doll Bones, and Mary Downing Hahn, a truly chilling (and historically ins… read more
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- fantasy
- audiobook
17. Playing the Cards You're Dealt (Scholastic Gold)
By: Varian Johnson
4.24
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor- and Boston Globe / Horn Book Honor-winning author… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
18. Concealed
By: Christina Diaz Gonzalez
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Ivette Joanna And now: Katrina Whatever her name is, it won't last long. Katrina doesn't k… read more
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- adventure
- middle grade
- young adult
- science fiction
- audiobook
19. Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero
By: Saadia Faruqi
4.19
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Yusuf Azeem has spent all his life in the small town of Frey, Texas—and nearly that long waiting fo… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- audiobook
20. Barakah Beats
By: Maleeha Siddiqui
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The First Rule of Punk and Save Me a Seat, Barakah Beats is a sweet, powerful, and joyo… read more
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- middle grade
- audiobook
21. The Great Pet Heist (The Great Pet Heist #1)
By: Emily Ecton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Secret Life of Pets in this hilarious and delightfully illustrated novel f… read more
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- audiobook
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22. Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl (Society of Explorers and Adventurers, #1)
By: Julie Kagawa
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Shinji Takahashi and the Mark of the Coatl is the first book in a globe-trotting adventure that com… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
23. Rules for Vampires
By: Alex Foulkes
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Nevermoor series meets Hotel Transylvania in this dazzling debut middle grade adventure set in … read more
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24. Weird Kid
By: Greg Van Eekhout
3.73
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Jake Wind is trying to stay under the radar. Whose radar? Anyone who might be too interested in the… read more
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- middle grade
- fantasy
- audiobook
25. Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena (Team Chu #1)
By: Julie C. Dao
3.96
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A rollicking, action-packed adventure of laser tag and fierce sibling rivalries, Team Chu and the B… read more
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- audiobook
26. The Vanquishers (The Vanquishers, #1)
By: Kalynn Bayron
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In the world of the Vanquishers, vampires were history . . . until now.Malika “Boog” Wilson and her… read more
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- fantasy
- lgbt
27. Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion
By: K. Tempest Bradford
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A backyard adventure-mystery. Eleven-year-old Ruby is a Black girl who loves studying insects an… read more
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28. City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
By: Alex London
3.97
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground drag… read more
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- urban fantasy
- dragons
- lgbt
- adventure
- middle grade
- young adult
- dystopia
- science fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Secrets between friends are like dragon bile."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"Um..." Abel feared "um" was officially his catchphrase."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"WW3D" they added, which was a code they used whenever one of them was feeling nervous about something."-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
"How do you know it's a him?" Abel asked. "He's not wearing his pronouns on a name tag." "Male Sunrise Reapers have orange eyes," Roa said. "Females have red or yellow." "But what if he's nonbinary?" …"-Alex London, City of Thieves (Battle Dragons #1)
29. The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
By: James Bird
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A middle-grade novel by James Bird about a boy sent to his Ojibwe family to straighten out his life… read more
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30. The Swag Is in the Socks
By: Kelly J. Baptist
4.15
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Xavier Moon is stepping out of the shadows when his great uncle gifts his with outlandish socks and… read more
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- young adult
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31. Lightningborn (Storm Dragons #1)
By: Julie Kagawa
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby d… read more
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- adventure
- middle grade
- young adult
- fantasy
