The Absence of Sparrows
By: Kurt Kirchmeier
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt -- and the boy who believes th…
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1. Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1)
By: Angie Sage
4.26
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The first part of an enthralling new series leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
2. Nyxia (The Nyxia Triad, #1)
By: Scott Reintgen
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition
Emmett Atwater isn't just leaving Detroit; he's leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited … read more
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- young adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
3. All's Faire in Middle School
By: Victoria Jamieson
3.90
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of Roller Girlis back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your … read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
4. Adam Silvera Fantasy Book
By: Adam Silvera
3.68
Format: 346 pages,
This is going to be a fantasy novel by the acclaimed author of More Happy Than Notand History Is Al… read more
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- fiction
- fantasy
- young adult
5. Hour of the Bees
By: Lindsay Eagar
3.80
Format: 245 pages, ebook
Things are only impossible if you stop to think about them. . . . While her friends are spending th… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- fantasy
- young adult
6. Echo
By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himsel… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- fantasy
- young adult
7. Winter Turning (Wings of Fire, #7)
By: Tui T. Sutherland
4.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Daring mission... or deadly mistake?Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family hi… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
"Because happiness is not where I am . . . it's who I'm with."-Tui T. Sutherland, Winter Turning (Wings of Fire, #7)
"I was only half a dragon before I met you, and I would be even less if I lost you now."-Tui T. Sutherland, Winter Turning (Wings of Fire, #7)
8. Serafina and the Black Cloak (Serafina, #1)
By: Robert Beatty
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnar… read more
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9. 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
- middle grade
- young adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
10. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
By: Nicholas Day
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more
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- mystery
- middle grade
- childrens
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
11. 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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- middle grade
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- young adult
12. 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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13. Closer to Nowhere
By: Ellen Hopkins
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A novel in verse about coming to terms with indelible truths of family and belonging. For the mo… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
"Every kid deserves a friend."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"Comprehension means more than word count."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"Still, what can it hurt to maybe have a little extra luck on your side?"-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
"That home in the distance, the one I could never reach? Today, I’m much closer to it than I am to nowhere."-Ellen Hopkins, Closer to Nowhere
14. A Cosmology of Monsters
By: Shaun Hamill
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Noah Turner sees monsters. His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dar… read more
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- mystery
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places."-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have no i…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"I don't reject the choices I've made, or the cost. It's not so surprising, I guess. My monster suit always fit better than my regular skin. I was never a guardian, or a hero, but a creator and harves…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
"...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and f…"-Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters
15. Lines of Courage
By: Jennifer A. Nielsen
4.30
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- young adult
16. Scarewaves
By: Trevor Henderson
3.89
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Internet horror superstar Trevor Henderson is famous for his ghastly creations and hair-raising cre… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
17. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
By: Daniel Nayeri
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
18. Operation Do-Over
By: Gordon Korman
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unteachables, Gordon Korman, comes a hilarious ne… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
19. And Then, Boom!
By: Lisa Fipps
4.69
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A gripping new novel-in-verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish , featuring a pove… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
"Friendship is being there to notice someone's about to fall, to try to keep them from falling, to catch them when they fall or to cushion the blow when they do, to feel what they're feeling, and to u…"-Lisa Fipps, And Then, Boom!
20. Glitch
By: Laura Martin
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A whirlwind adventure about a pair of kids who must break all the rules of time travel. Regan Fi… read more
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- childrens
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Albert Einstein one said that everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it would spend its whole life believing it's stupid."-Laura Martin, Glitch
21. Finding Junie Kim
By: Ellen Oh
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A story of family, hope, and survival, inspired by the author's mother’s real-life experiences duri… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
22. This Appearing House
By: Ally Malinenko
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Ghost Girl comes another standalone spooky middle grade for fans of Nightbooks a… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
23. Arctic Zoo
By: Robert Muchamore
3.95
Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition
From London . . .Georgia gets straight As at school, writes essays for fun, has been placed first i… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
24. 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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- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
25. Sisterhood of Sleuths
By: Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
4.05
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
Maizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother, Jacuzzi. So when a box full of vin… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- mystery
26. Be Dazzled
By: Ryan La Sala
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern ma… read more
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- fiction
- young adult
"... Carb-e Diem. Seize the bread."-Ryan La Sala, Be Dazzled
"Maybe it’s hardest to begin the things we know will bring about ends."-Ryan La Sala, Be Dazzled
27. The Absence of Sparrows
By: Kurt Kirchmeier
3.55
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A coming-of-age novel about a plague that brings the world to a halt -- and the boy who believes th… read more
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- childrens
- coming of age
- middle grade
- young adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- fantasy
- science fiction
28. Maybe a Mermaid
By: Josephine Cameron
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Anthoni Gillis is not the kind of kid who believes in fairies, unicorns, or even th… read more
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- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- fantasy
29. Kelcie Murphy and the Hunt for the Heart of Danu (Kelcie Murphy, #2)
By: Erika Lewis
4.06
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Kelcie Murphy is back in another action-packed middle grade adventure, Kelcie Murphy and the Hunt f… read more
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- fantasy
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
30. Tied: Book One: The Reign Series
By: Piper Malone
4.50
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The moment Reagan Langley signed her divorce papers, she felt a wave of relief followed by a sicken… read more
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31. Moonshine
By: Justin Benton
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Set in the Great Depression, a boy begins to question his and his father's illicit lifestyle brewin… read more
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