Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are middle grade books from 2024.
Browsing: ages 10 & up
Exiled to an uninhabitable planet, a girl discovers her government has been lying for centuries in Ashgarden, the final book in Michelle A. Barry’s Plotting the Stars series.
A deaf girl searches for her voice and discovers the true meaning of family along the way in Deer Run Home, by Ann Clare LeZotte.
Two sisters will stop at nothing to find family and safety in The Flicker, a dystopian middle-grade novel by H.E. Edgmon.
Discover an alternate timeline where Germany wins World War II in Westfallen, the first book in a new trilogy by Ann Brashares and Ben Brashares.
An awkward teen struggles with mental health issues and self-doubt in Weirdo, a middle-grade graphic novel memoir by Tony Weaver Jr.
A boy is forced to volunteer at a retirement home and learns to confront his own past in Not Nothing, by Gayle Forman.
A girl learns of her family’s past during a visit to her grandparent’s home in Canada in Buffalo Dreamer, by Violet Duncan.
Learn the story of our country from the Mexican American perspective in Borderlands and the Mexican American Story, by David Dorado Romo.
PEARL: A Graphic Novel, by Sherri L. Smith and Christine Norrie, Graphix, Aug. 20, 2024, Paperback $11.99 (ages 10 and up) A Japanese-American…