Courage
By: Barbara Binns
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander, a poignant and timely novel about race, class, and …
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1. Flygirl
By: Sherri L. Smith
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Ida Mae Jones dreams of flight. Her daddy was a pilot and being black didn't stop him from fulfilli… read more
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- fiction
2. The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
By: Adam Gidwitz , Hatem Aly
4.00
Format: None pages,
An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. … read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
3. Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and tex… read more
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- middle grade
4. Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Wayside School #1)
By: Louis Sachar , Adam McCauley
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirt… read more
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5. The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
By: Jake Maia Arlow
4.19
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A hilariously honest book about surviving middle school while navigating a chronic illness from the… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
6. The Last Mapmaker
By: Christina Soontornvat
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker
7. Greenwild (Greenwild, #1)
By: Pari Thomson
4.20
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
Open the door to a spellbinding world where the wilderness is alive and a deep magic rises from the… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
8. Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
By: Katherine Arden
4.01
Format: 218 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debu… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
"You might get to know characters in books, Ollie thought, but getting to know a human was an entirely different thing."-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
"You don't waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow."-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
"Other than her homework, Ollie was carrying Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, a broken-spined paperback that she'd dug out of he dad's bookshelves. She mostly liked it. Peter Blood outsmarted everyon…"-Katherine Arden, Small Spaces (Small Spaces, #1)
9. 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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- 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
10. Good Different
By: Meg Eden Kuyatt
4.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
"Fight for words, even if it's hard."-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the «wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different
11. Out of My Heart (The Out of My Mind Series)
By: Sharon M. Draper
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this sequel to Out of My Mind.Melody is a year olde… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Buzzing
By: Samuel Sattin
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A moving middle grade graphic novel about friendship, belonging, and learning to love yourself desp… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
13. Forget Me Nat (Nat Enough, #2)
By: Maria Scrivan
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Companion to the New York Times bestseller Nat Enough! It's called a crush for a reason...For the f… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
14. Minerva Keen's Detective Club (MK's Detective Club, 1)
By: James Patterson
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s d… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- family
- contemporary
15. By the Book
By: Amanda Sellet
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
As a devotee of classic novels, Mary Porter-Malcolm knows all about Mistakes That Have Been Made, e… read more
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- realistic fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"You said she had a condition?"-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"To my fellow readers: I hope you never run out of good books."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"When's the last time you took a risk? I'm talking IRL, not in your reading material."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
"Your life," she corrected. "It's the nature of existence. To err is human. We screw up, and then screw up some more."-Amanda Sellet, By the Book
16. Shark Teeth
By: Sherri Winston
4.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award longlisted author Sherri Winston comes an important middle grade novel abo… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
17. The Firefly Summer
By: Morgan Matson
4.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Penderwicks meets The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street in a story about a young girl who gets to k… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
18. What Happened to Rachel Riley?
By: Claire Swinarski
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An eighth grader uses social media posts, passed notes, and other clues to find out why a formerly … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Drawing Deena
By: Hena Khan
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Amina’s Voice and Amina’s Song comes a tenderhearted middle grade … read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
20. The Beautiful Something Else
By: Ash Van Otterloo
4.50
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Full of humor and heartbreak, this story about a nonbinary character navigating a binary world is p… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Courage
By: Barbara Binns
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander, a poignant and timely novel about race, class, and … read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- sports
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- african american
