Middle Grade Indie

After his parents' divorce, Noah is overwhelmed by attending a new school and making new friends. He finds a diary about a real firefighter's life-threatening missions. But this is no ordinary book, and when Noah uses this supernatural book to impress his new friend, Danielle, chaos erupts in both...

Jett Jamison can't catch a break. Her home in small town Wisteria is noisy as a zoo on steroids, and her mind buzzes with bits of a traumatic memory she'd rather forget. She's filled a shoebox with one hundred thirty-three to-do lists, her roadmaps to...

This is the story as it was told to me by Leandro the Mighty. For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel – or go it alone in the wilderness...

Aliyah Serin is extraordinary. She was born with the unique ability to control two of the five elements—fire, water, earth, air, and aether—in a society where each individual is limited to only one. If that isn’t enough for the newspapers to gossip about, her parents were murdered and the...

Pollywog’s keen sense of adventure leads her on a thrilling quest that soon turns dangerous. When she and her friends uncover a stranger’s sinister plan in their sleepy little town, they realize they might be in way over their heads. In a race against time, they must outsmart the...

The legend of the Tutori was something Henry Halifax had never imagined to be real - guardians from an ancient organization tasked with watching over the animal kingdom from the shadows. After a chance encounter with the elusive Tutori, Henry and his fiercely loyal dachshund quickly become entangled in...

In this intimate and inspiring novel about the power of art and the value of community, award-winning author and former New Yorker Colleen Nelson brings life and liveliness to an eccentric cast of New York City neighbors. Middle-schooler and Manhattanite Ruby Markowski wants to tell...

Off the grid and not on the maps, Haarville is shrouded in fog and steeped in pungent pongs. Everything here smells fishy, especially the town's suspicious new arrivals. Twelve-year-old Manx Fearty is an orphan (his family has a terrible habit of dying, terribly), and now...

Ben Snyder is ready to start middle school. He’s smart, athletic, and has two best friends. But his super picky eating, which has never been a problem before, is about to get in his way. Suddenly everybody’s on his case about what he’s eating and what he’s not—his old...

This is the story of a 10-year-old girl named Norma who lives in a town called Superton where everyone has superpowers. They can do all sorts of super stuff like transform things into gummy bears, and shoot boogers out of their noses with pinpoint accuracy, and even hypnotize hippos!!!...

Zed and Tuesday ought to be living the good life. After all, it's not every day two kids take down an evil dictator and their mom gets put in charge of an entire dimension. But after moving into Falinnheim's palace, they learn that life as royalty isn't as carefree...

Twelve-year-old Graham Dodds is no stranger to hospital waiting rooms. Sometimes, he feels like his entire life is one big waiting room. Waiting for the next doctor to tell them what’s wrong with his mom. Waiting to find out what city they’re moving to next. Waiting to see if...

As the clock ticks down, Mkundi and Wenasha must use all their skills to stay one step ahead of their enemies and uncover the truth behind the cyber attacks on their town. In this heart-pounding thriller, the twin sisters must fight to prove themselves and for justice as they...

Once, magic was everywhere.​ Then, the magestones were all destroyed. All, except one...​Grayson Fletcher has spent his entire life working as a blacksmith's apprentice in his family's forge. He knows his way around an anvil, but he suspects there's more to life than hot iron and sweaty aprons. So...

When he is given a special poppy, Teddy travels back in time to the trenches of World War I, then aboard a World War II ship trying to evade submarines and finally on a air force bomber on a mission. Will he ever get home? Teddy experiences the camaraderie,...