A group of kids who love to draw and create stories help each other hone their skills in The Cartoonists Club, a graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud.
Browsing: Middle Grade
A girl struggles to survive amid a smallpox epidemic, the public’s fear of inoculation and the Revolutionary War in Rebellion 1776, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
A group of underdogs join forces to prove they’ve got what it takes on the basketball court and the stage in The Playmakers, by Chad Morris and Shelly Morris.
It’s a race against time for a girl to save her family’s refuge for extraterrestrials in The Extraterrestrial Zoo: Finding the Lost One, by Samantha van Leer.
Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space, by Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson is a primer for teens who may someday travel to the moon.
A girl who caught between the realm of the living and dead gets lost in the Underworld in River of Spirits, the first book in The Underwild series by Shana Targosz.
A girl must solve riddles, follow flues, find a secret island and break a 200-year-old curse in Isle of Ever, a middle-grade novel by Jen Calonita.
Fifth grade becomes overwhelming for a girl who struggles with depression in Octopus Moon, a novel in verse by Bobbie Pyron.
Learn the tales of Irish faerie folk in The Faerie Isle: Tales and Traditions of Ireland’s Forgotten Folklore, by Síne Quinn and Dermot Flynn.
Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.