A Korean American girl starts a business with her best friends to pay for art camp in Gigi Shin is Not a Nerd, the first book in a new series by Lyla Lee.
Browsing: Middle Grade
A girl’s chronic illness threatens to take over her life in Gut Reaction, by Newbery Honor-winner Kirby Larson, and her daughter, Quinn Wyatt.
Kate DiCamillo’s latest literary offering, Ferris, is about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother and growing up, and it’s delightful.
Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson, by Ann E. Burg and Sophie Blackall, is the story of how a young naturalist grows up to change the world.
Uprising, by Jennifer A. Nielsen, follows a young Polish girl as she participates in the Warsaw city uprising during WWII.
A street dog and a young girl with abandonment issues help each other heal in Millie, Book 3 in McCall Hoyle’s Best Friends Dog Tales series.
Learn about the organisms that make animals ill in Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs, by Heather L. Montgomery and Lindsey Leigh.
A girl learns about her grandmother’s experience of the Partition of India and Pakistan in The Partition Project, by Saadia Faruqi
A girl’s goal to write a fantasy novel triggers writer’s block and anxiety in Unstuck, a new middle-grade book by Barbara Dee.
Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith introduces readers to wonders beyond our planet in Universal Guide to the Night Sky.