10 must-read middle grade books like The Book Cat by Polly Faber

Cover of The Book Cat by Polly Faber

The Book Cat

By: Polly Faber

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided …

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Cover of Fury by Salman Rushdie

1. Fury

By: Salman Rushdie

3.30

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Малик Соланка, миллионер из Бомбея, получивший образование в Кембридже, пытается убежать от самого … read more

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  • fiction
"What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Neela had dressed for beauty, not for warmth, and the afternoon had lost its glow. Solanka took off his coat and put it over her trembling shoulders. All around them in the park the colours were fadi…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

"Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, b…"

-Salman Rushdie, Fury

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2. Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.95

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enc… read more

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  • fiction
"Our memories change as we do."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Most of us can only see the world we know."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"Love affairs are discoveries of new worlds."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

"The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so."

-Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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3. The Wolf Wilder

By: Katherine Rundell , Gelrev Ongbico

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Feodora and her mother live in the snowbound woods of Russia, in a house full of food and fireplace… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Stories can start revolutions."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Hard work always hurts somewhere."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves are the witches of the animal world."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

"Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense."

-Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder

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4. Boris

By: Cynthia Rylant

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Boris is a big gray cat who loves sleeping and playing and exploring and hunting. And his owner lov… read more

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  • animals
  • cats
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5. Faithful and Virtuous Night

By: Louise Glück

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fe… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Love Poems

By: Pablo Neruda , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda's love poems are the most celebrated of the Nobel… read more

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  • fiction

7. Wild Wings

By: Gill Lewis , Yuta Onoda

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The majestic Osprey is an endangered bird that hasn't been seen in Scotland for years, so when Iona… read more

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  • middle grade
  • animals
  • fiction
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8. Gut Symmetries

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Physics seems to have become the new language of love in the 1990s, and Jeanette Winterson is not t… read more

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  • fiction

9. Frida Kahlo: Una biografía

By: María Hesse

4.28

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

"Pies para que os quiero, si tengo alas para volar" Frida Kahlo fue algo mas que dolor y angustia. … read more

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10. 100 Poems from the Japanese

By: Kenneth Rexroth

3.97

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The poems are drawn chiefly from the traditional Manyoshu, Kokinshuand Hyakunin Isshucollections, b… read more

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11. Madame Pylinska et le secret de Chopin

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

4.16

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

« - Madame Pylinska, quel est le secret de Chopin ? - Il y a des secrets qu'il ne faut pas percer m… read more

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  • fiction
"— Êtes-vous polythéiste, monsieur ? — Pardon ? — Moi je suis monothéiste. Je n’aime qu’un compositeur : Chopin. Je possède la conviction de n’avoir été envoyée sur terre que pour jouer et écouter Cho…"

-Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Madame Pylinska et le secret de Chopin

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12. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

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  • animals
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
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13. The Goodbye Cat

By: Hiro Arikawa

3.90

Format: 285 pages, ebook

In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more

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  • animals
  • fiction
  • cats
"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."

-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat

Cover of The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #15) by Jeff Kinney

14. The Deep End (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #15)

By: Jeff Kinney

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

Ґреґ із родиною вирушають у літню подорож країною. Вони мріють про захопливу пригоду, але їхні план… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • fiction
Cover of Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

15. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

By: Laura Gao

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, La… read more

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16. The Valley of Lost Secrets

By: Lesley Parr

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

September 1939. When Jimmy is evacuated to a small village in Wales, it couldn't be more differe… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Parr's The Valley of Lost Secrets book and Polly Faber's The Book Cat

  • childrens
  • historical
  • war
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's wrong to tar everyone in a family with the same brush."

-Lesley Parr, The Valley of Lost Secrets

"It's a weak adult who gets their power from hitting a child."

-Lesley Parr, The Valley of Lost Secrets

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17. Asymmetry: Poems

By: Adam Zagajewski

4.15

Format: 77 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new collection from Poland's leading poetGive me back my childhood, republic of loquacio… read more

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18. Girl in the Walls

By: A.J. Gnuse

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and suspenseful coming-of-age novel about an orphan hiding within the walls of her fo… read more

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  • fiction
"Últimamente he intentado cambiar la imagen en mi cabeza. Imaginarme que quienquiera que se esconda ahí tiene el rostro de alguien que recuerdo. Alguien que he perdido. No siempre es fácil, pero creo …"

-A.J. Gnuse, Girl in the Walls

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19. Jazz Owls

By: Margarita Engle

3.94

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the Young People’s Poet Laureate Margarita Engle comes a searing novel in verse about the Zoot… read more

Similar categories in Margarita Engle's Jazz Owls book and Polly Faber's The Book Cat

  • historical
  • middle grade
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Most Precious of Cargoes

By: Jean-Claude Grumberg

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wi… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 58 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically acclaimed poets. Carl Phi… read more

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22. Cat's Very Good Day

By: Kristen Tracy

3.86

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious picture book about one mischievous cat’s action-packed day—from an award-winning poet, … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Tracy's Cat's Very Good Day book and Polly Faber's The Book Cat

  • animals
  • childrens
  • cats
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23. The Closest Thing to Flying

By: Gill Lewis

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Present day: Semira doesn't know where to call home. She and her mother came to England when she wa… read more

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  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero by Margarita Engle

24. With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

By: Margarita Engle

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary mo… read more

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  • historical
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Wild Is the Wind: Poems

By: Carl Phillips

3.94

Format: 55 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most critically admired poets “What has r… read more

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26. Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

By: Margarita Engle

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A School Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2019! In this powerful companion to her award-w… read more

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  • middle grade
"When all else fails, trust the library."

-Margarita Engle, Soaring Earth: A Companion Memoir to Enchanted Air

Cover of The Book Cat by Polly Faber

27. The Book Cat

By: Polly Faber

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

This is a classic wartime tale of a (real!) cat who made his home at the Faber offices and decided … read more

Similar categories in Polly Faber's The Book Cat book and Polly Faber's The Book Cat

  • chapter books
  • childrens
  • historical
  • middle grade
  • animals
  • war
  • cats
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Yearning Young (Burning Britely, #2) by Deidre Huesmann

28. Yearning Young (Burning Britely, #2)

By: Deidre Huesmann

4.16

Format: None pages, ebook

Braeden’s never had to question anything before. He’s always been popular, always had everything ha… read more

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29. Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

By: Deidre Huesmann

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

~Editor's Pick~ With Jeff Young’s fantastic grades, he should be a great tutor. But he’s terri… read more

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  • fiction
"Looks like Quackula got the best of you,"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Braeden, I’m in love with you. I’m sorry. - Jeff"

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Jeff gnawed on his tongue. “I’ve always been small for my age. Maya, too."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

"Maya lifted a bony shoulder. “Besides, even if he had messed with the babies, you kind of overshadowed it by killing a pelican."

-Deidre Huesmann, Burning Britely (Burning Britely, #1)

Cover of Miss Cat: The Case of the Curious Canary by Joëlle Jolivet

30. Miss Cat: The Case of the Curious Canary

By: Joëlle Jolivet

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Follow the investigations of Miss Cat as she tries to crack the case of a missing canary in a thril… read more

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  • animals

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