Wild Ride
By: Keith Calabrese
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Swindle meets Adventures in Babysitting in this action-filled comedy! No parents. No rules. No c…
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1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
By: Jon Klassen
4.26
Format: 105 pages, None
Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
- juvenile
2. Attack of the Black Rectangles
By: Amy Sarig King
4.21
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic and finds some words… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
"Why do they treat kids like we don't mean anything?"-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"If you're comfortable learning history, it's the wrong history."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"I love banned books. I used to read as many to you as I could when you were little, Mac."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
"But if we want to change the world so it's good for everyone, it's important to talk about the truth."-Amy Sarig King, Attack of the Black Rectangles
3. 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
"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
4. A First Time for Everything
By: Dan Santat
4.39
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more
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- middle grade
5. 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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- juvenile
- middle grade
- fiction
- adventure
6. 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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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
"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
7. The Switch
By: Roland Smith
3.89
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
What happens when the power goes out? And doesn't come back for days... weeks... even longer? Maste… read more
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- middle grade
- adventure
8. Wildoak
By: C.C. Harrington
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Maggie’s stutter makes going to school hard. She will do almost anything to avoid speaking in class… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
9. High Score
By: Destiny Howell
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Oceans 11 goes to the arcade in this wildly entertaining heist adventure that is perfect for fans o… read more
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- adventure
- humor
- middle grade
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- juvenile
10. Lasagna Means I Love You
By: Kate O'Shaughnessy
4.40
Format: 368 pages, Library Binding
What are the essential ingredients that make a family? Eleven-year-old Mo is making up her own reci… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- juvenile
11. 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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- mystery
- middle grade
- fiction
12. Different Kinds of Fruit
By: Kyle Lukoff
4.08
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from a Stonewall Award winner, a sixth-grader’s life is tu… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
13. Thirst
By: Varsha Bajaj
4.14
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The riveting story of a heroic girl who fights for her belief that water should be for everyone. … read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
14. The Road to After
By: Rebekah Lowell
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This poignant debut novel in verse is a portrait of healing, as a young girl rediscovers life and t… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
- juvenile
15. The Carrefour Curse
By: Dianne K. Salerni
4.15
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The Addams Family meets The Westing Game in this exhilarating mystery about a modern magical dynast… read more
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- mystery
- middle grade
- fiction
16. The Name She Gave Me
By: Betty Culley
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Three Things I Know Are True comes a new novel in verse, a deeply emot… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
"Douglas is safe and Dad knew all along that I hid from Mom under the porch. He saved Douglas, but he never saved me. “And right there on the ground I decide I’m going to save anyone I can. It won’t m…"-Betty Culley, The Name She Gave Me
17. The Life and Time of Lonny Quicke
By: Kirsty Applebaum
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Lonny is a lifeling. He has the power to heal any living creature and bring it back from the dead. … read more
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- middle grade
- fiction
- adventure
18. Daisy Woodworm Changes the World
By: Melissa Hart
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
When her social studies teacher assigns each student a project to change the world for the better a… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- fiction
19. Twelfth
By: Janet Key
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding yo… read more
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- mystery
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
20. Wild Ride
By: Keith Calabrese
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Swindle meets Adventures in Babysitting in this action-filled comedy! No parents. No rules. No c… read more
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- adventure
- humor
- middle grade
- realistic fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- comedy
- juvenile
21. A Million Views
By: Aaron Starmer
3.72
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Brewster Gaines just wanted to make a video and get a million views - he didn't count on needing fr… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
