17 must-read middle grade books like Dust Storm! (Survivor Diaries) by Terry Lynn Johnson

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Dust Storm! (Survivor Diaries)

By: Terry Lynn Johnson

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive. Stranded after a dust storm hits in a desert in New Mexico, sixt…

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1. Hunting Hour (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #3)

By: Margaret Mizushima

4.25

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Deputy Mattie Cobb is working through issues from her past and has withdrawn from Cole Walker and h… read more

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2. Secrets She Kept

By: Cathy Gohlke

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The secret a mother was forbidden to share . . . the consequences a daughter could not redeem--but … read more

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3. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

By: Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another mem… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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4. Rise of the Earth Dragon (Dragon Masters #1)

By: Tracey West , Graham Howells

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The DRAGON MASTERS series is "How to Train Your Dragon" meets the DRAGON SLAYERS' ACADEMY! This ser… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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5. Fantastic Mr. Fox

By: Roald Dahl , Quentin Blake

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, s… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
"I dare not do that, said Mr. Fox, because this place I am hoping to get is so marvelous that if I described it to you now you would go crazy with excitement"

-Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

6. Pax

By: Sara Pennypacker , Jon Klassen

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Pax was only a kit when his family was killed, and "his boy" Peter rescued him from abandonment and… read more

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7. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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8. The Last Panther

By: Todd Mitchell

4.00

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For fans of "The One and Only Ivan" and "Hoot, " this is the uplifting story of a girl who discover… read more

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9. Miss Nelson Is Missing! (Miss Nelson, #1)

By: James Marshall , None

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The kids in Room 207 were misbehaving again. Spitballs stuck to the ceiling. Paper planes whizzing … read more

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10. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

By: Barbara Robinson

4.22

Format: 128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Laughs abound in this bestselling Christmas classic by Barbara Robinson! The Best Christmas Pageant… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus."

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

"When they got to the part about swaddling clothes and the manger, Imogene asked, “You mean they tied him up and put him in a feedbox? Where was the Child Welfare?"

-Barbara Robinson, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)

11. Runaway Ralph (Ralph S. Mouse, #2)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

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12. The Wild Robot (The Wild Robot, #1)

By: Peter Brown

4.05

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild… read more

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13. 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
  • adventure
"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

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14. Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a middle grade road-trip story through Ameri… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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15. The Puppets of Spelhorst

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.19

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale—with enchanting illustrations b… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
"The moon has no master," said the owl. "The moon is its own king." "Or queen," said the girl. The moon rose higher."

-Kate DiCamillo, The Puppets of Spelhorst

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16. 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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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
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17. I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 (I Survived #23)

By: Lauren Tarshis

4.04

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lau… read more

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  • survival
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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18. Bob

By: Wendy Mass

4.06

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

A classic middle-grade tale of magic and friendship, about a girl who helps an old friend find home… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
"I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. “Well? Can you see me?"

-Wendy Mass, Bob

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19. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
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20. The Last Bear (The Last Bear #1)

By: Hannah Gold

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An instant classic with a bear-sized heart, Hannah Gold’s debut novel is a touching story of kindne… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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21. Wonka

By: Sibéal Pounder

4.02

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

WONKA tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker b… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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22. Pax, Journey Home (Pax, #2)

By: Sara Pennypacker

4.42

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes the long-awaited sequel to Pax; th… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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23. The Girl Who Speaks Bear

By: Sophie Anderson

4.20

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Found abandoned in a bear cave as a baby, 12-year-old Yanka has always felt out of place in her sma… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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24. An Ivy Hill Christmas (Tales from Ivy Hill)

By: Julie Klassen

4.03

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill's most prominent family, hasn't been home for Christ… read more

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25. Stealing the Sword (Time Jumpers, #1)

By: Wendy Mass

3.86

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Branches Book New York Times bestselling author Wendy Mass's action-packed early chapter book … read more

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  • childrens
  • adventure
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26. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

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  • middle grade
  • childrens
  • adventure
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27. A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

By: Paula Munier

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

First in a gripping new mystery series about a retired MP and her bomb-sniffing dog who become embr… read more

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"Mercy knew she would sleep better now, with a dog on her feet and a gun under her head."

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

"But the most striking thing about him was the Buck hunting knife that stuck of of his chest, right under his left nipple, the fatal bulls-eye of a dark red blood blotch that stained his T-shirt with …"

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

"Every morning they marched off their grief mile after mile in the mountains, where the cool greens of the forest could chase away the dark ghosts of the desert, at least until night fell. but not tod…"

-Paula Munier, A Borrowing of Bones (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #1)

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28. Blind Search (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #2)

By: Paula Munier

4.10

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Former Army MP Mercy Carr and her retired bomb-sniffing dog Elvis are back in Blind Search, the seq… read more

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29. The Hiding Place (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #3)

By: Paula Munier

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Mercy and Elvis are back in The Hiding Place, the most enthralling entry yet in USA Today bestselli… read more

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30. The Wedding Plot (Mercy & Elvis Mysteries, #4)

By: Paula Munier

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Wedding Plot , USA Today bestselling author Paula Munier's fourth Mercy Carr mystery, finds Mer… read more

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31. Dust Storm! (Survivor Diaries)

By: Terry Lynn Johnson

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Stay calm. Stay smart. Survive. Stranded after a dust storm hits in a desert in New Mexico, sixt… read more

Similar categories in Terry Lynn Johnson's Dust Storm! (Survivor Diaries) book and Terry Lynn Johnson's Dust Storm! (Survivor Diaries)

  • survival
  • childrens
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • action

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Karina Yan Glaser

4.05

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3.82

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Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

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