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Middle Grade Fiction
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Every fairy tale ends with its characters living happily ever after, right? A valiant prince quests long and hard to reach the castle where the sleeping princess lies. And with a kiss, he will awaken her. But what if the princess does NOT think a...
Middle Grade Fiction
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Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is...
Middle Grade Fiction
287 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
January 02, 2024
Dark secrets and unnatural magic abound when a twelve-year-old girl ventures into a bog full of monsters to break a mysterious curse. Nothing about Kess Pedrock’s life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family’s Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils...
Middle Grade Fiction
308 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
March 05, 2024
During a spy school game of Capture the Flag, twelve-year-old Ben Ripley accidentally shoots a live mortar into the principal’s office—and immediately gets himself expelled. Not long after going back to the boring real world, Ben gets an offer to join evil crime organization SPYDER. And he accepts. ...
Middle Grade Fiction
246 0
Author(s)
Genre(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
July 18, 2023
From an NYT bestselling author comes the first in an illustrated middle grade series about a Panamanian American girl who uses humor and a little mischief to navigate her best friend moving away and her sister's overbearing and all-consuming quince preparations. Flora Violeta LeFevre, aka Flora "la...
Middle Grade Indie
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When thirteen-year-old Katie McCabe’ s dad gets sick and is hospitalized, she’ s sent to live with her uncle in a strange town. But within days of arriving, her dad unexpectedly dies. Struggling with her new reality, Katie is lost. She doesn't fit in at her new...
Middle Grade Fiction
417 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
December 19, 2023
Based on the major motion picture—an intoxicating mix of magic and music, mayhem and emotion, all told with fabulous heart and humor—Wonka introduces readers to a young Willy Wonka, chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time . . . proving that...
Middle Grade Fiction
1948 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
May 02, 2023
THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is the #1 movie now streaming on Netflix—starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Sofia Wylie, Sophie Anne Caruso, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Kit Young, and many others! What rises . . . must...
Middle Grade Indie
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It's 1881 in Destiny, Colorado. Fourteen-year-old Henry Upton’s parents have died, and he’s trying to keep his three younger brothers together on the farm. Henry writes a story about The Kid, the fastest draw in the West, to keep people away from their parts. But his stories will soon...
Middle Grade Fiction
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Halfway through the fifth grade, Penny Lowry is discovering that things are actually going . . . okay! With her friends Maria, Kristian, and Rocco on her side, and her lovable dog Cosmo, she can make it through anything. And when her anxiety comes back, there's always her doodling,...
Middle Grade Fiction
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Author(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
March 01, 2023
In the second book of this action-packed series, cutting-edge tech meets explosive adventure as young superspies Swift and Hawk take on a dangerous secret organization. On what should be a routine mission to stop a hack at a tech company, young spies Caleb Swift and Zen Rafiq—code...
Middle Grade Fiction
274 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
April 04, 2023
Beak-a-boo, it sees you! Cooper Klavan and his sister Anna are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want...
Middle Grade Fiction
280 0
Author(s)
Age Range
8+
Release Date
May 14, 2024
Sammie, a budding naturalist, knows of a secret and wonderful place: Winghaven, an abandoned lot in the middle of the suburbs where wildlife flourishes. She spends hours making notes and drawings in her meticulous field journal. When Bram, a new boy, turns up with his camera, Sammie worries he’ll...
Middle Grade Fiction
235 0
Mario is spending winter break with his neighbors, Todd and Jewel, on their family vacation to Vermont. He is excited to see snow for the first time and meet his friend’s beloved grandparents. But Todd and Jewel’s grandparents turn out to be a little odd. They love telling tall...
Middle Grade Indie
252 0
Author(s)
Co-Authors / Illustrators
- Barry Moser
Genre(s)
Age Range
10+
Release Date
September 05, 2023
The thirtieth-anniversary edition of a beloved children’s book. The Mushroom Man has arrived at its thirtieth anniversary despite breaking every rule of picture-book storytelling. It is not a story about children: The only kids make a cameo appearance to taunt the mushroom man in the street....
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