A girl sets out to save her friends, and maybe find a home for herself in the process, in Sylvia Doe and the 100-Year Flood, by Robert Beatty.
Browsing: ages 8 & up
The following books for middle readers are great options leading up to Halloween.
Celebrate the lives and contributions of Black scientists throughout history with Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden and David Wilkerson.
A Norwegian Fjord makes a cross-country journey to become a movie star in The Star Horse, by Sarah Maslin Nir.
Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away follows Anne Frank’s life from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands until the Frank family was forced into hiding.
A chess prodigy struggles to tell his mom he wants to quit the game in All the Ways to Go, a middle-grade novel by Jessie Janowitz.
A girl’s pesky little brother inspires her to fight climate change in Gracie Under Waves, by Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park.
A seventh-grade Syrian American boy navigates middle school in Kareem Between, a novel by Shifa Saltagi Safadi.
Two girls wonder if an unusual weather phenomenon has anything to do with the upheaval in their lives in The Witching Wind, by Natalie Lloyd.
Four kids and a grandfather set out to solve a decades-old mystery in The Sherlock Society, the first book in a new middle-grade series by James Ponti.