When Forests Burn: The Story of Wildfire in America, by Albert Marrin, explores the whys and hows behind destructive wildfires in the US.
Browsing: ages 10 & up
Go beyond the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in Exclusion and the Chinese American Story, by Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn.
Learn about America’s first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings in Spying on Spies, by Marissa Moss.
A teen with an eating disorder is sent to a residential treatment facility in Louder Than Hunger, a new novel in verse by John Schu.
A girl sets out to determine her own future and learn from her own mistakes in Averil Offline, by Amy Noelle Parks.
Ruth Behar’s Across So Many Seas spans 500 years and tells the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family.
An eighth-grader tries to find out how the most popular girl at her school became a social pariah in What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski.
A girl decides to give herself three different makeovers at the same time — what could possibly go wrong? — in Amelia Gray is Almost Okay, by Jessica Brody.
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are middle-grade books published in and/or reviewed in 2023.
A boy learns life lessons while learning to play chess in Not an Easy Win, a middle-grade novel by Chrystal D. Giles.