Halfway Normal
By: Barbara Dee
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
A cancer survivor must readjust to "normal" middle school life in this hopeful novel from the autho…
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1. Short
By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The Wizard of Oz, she'll reali… read more
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- young adult
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- contemporary
2. Halfway Normal
By: Barbara Dee
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition
A cancer survivor must readjust to "normal" middle school life in this hopeful novel from the autho… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
- illness
3. Greetings from Witness Protection!
By: Jake Burt
3.72
Format: 134 pages, Hardcover
A funny and poignant debut middle-grade novel about a foster-care girl who is placed with a family … read more
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4. Restart
By: Gordon Korman
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't re… read more
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5. The Mother-Daughter Book Club
By: Heather Vogel Frederick
4.05
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
The book club is about to get a makeover.... Even if Megan would rather be at the mall, Cassidy i… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"I love science, and the way it names and orders and classifies everything, from clouds to plants to stars. Even bones. Tibia, fibula, scapula, patella. Science makes everything so official-sounding, …"-Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club
6. Mustaches for Maddie
By: Shelly Brown , Chad Morris
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maddie is a normal twelve-year-old girl. Well, except for the fake mustaches she carries in her poc… read more
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7. Braced
By: Alyson Gerber
3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The first contemporary novel about a disorder that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers:… read more
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8. One for the Murphys
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
3.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Twelve-year-old Carley Connors can take a lot. Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, … read more
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9. The Prettiest
By: Brigit Young
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A must-read for young feminists, The Prettiest is an incisive, empowering novel by Brigit Young abo… read more
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- childrens
- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Mascot
By: Charles Waters
4.02
Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition
What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
11. Lifeboat 12
By: Susan Hood
4.19
Format: 337 pages, Unknown Binding
With Nazis bombing London every night, it’s time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects h… read more
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- fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
12. 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
- contemporary
"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
13. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
By: Dan Gemeinhart
4.46
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus,… read more
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"But when someone's hurting, you gotta do something. Always kindness"-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
"Driving toward something is better than driving away from something."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
"I guess that's how regrets are...they're anchors, not balloons. And we were sunk"-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
"The best kind of goodbye is the kind where you don’t actually have to leave the person behind."-Dan Gemeinhart, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise (Coyote Sunrise #1)
14. Growing Pangs
By: Kathryn Ormsbee
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
New grade. New friends. New worries? Introducing a graphic novel about friendship, anxiety, and gro… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
15. Turtle in Paradise: The Graphic Novel
By: Jennifer L. Holm
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Life isn't like the movies. But then again, 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart… read more
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- childrens
- fiction
16. Dress Coded
By: Carrie Firestone
4.17
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie , an eighth grade… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"What if, instead of seeing us as covered or uncovered body parts, you saw us as people and you learned our names?"-Carrie Firestone, Dress Coded
17. Stargazing
By: Jen Wang
4.17
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both… read more
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- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
18. The Night War
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words com… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- fiction
19. Blended
By: Sharon M. Draper
4.16
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"You’re so exotic!” “You look so unusual.” “But what are you really?” Eleven-year-old Isabella i… read more
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- realistic fiction
- middle grade
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- fiction
- contemporary
"The doors of Target opened with a welcoming swoosh, and I was instantly distracted. Yeah. Target does that to me. I feel at home. They've got stuff I need. Stuff I don't need. Stuff I didn't even kno…"-Sharon M. Draper, Blended
20. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
By: Stacy McAnulty
4.29
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
A lightning strike gave her a super power... but even a super genius can't solve the problem of mid… read more
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- contemporary
21. 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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