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.
Browsing: Middle Grade
A boy learns life lessons while learning to play chess in Not an Easy Win, a middle-grade novel by Chrystal D. Giles.
A teen struggles to find her place in her Indigenous community and at her mostly white school in We Still Belong, a middle-grade novel by Christine Day.
Learn how people throughout time explained what happens after death in An Atlas of Afterlives: Discover Underworlds, Otherworlds and Heavenly Realms, by Emily Hawkins and Manasawee Rojanaphan.
We Gather Together: Stories from Then to Now, by Denise Kiernan, tells the true story of how Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
A girl spends summer vacation with her estranged maternal grandparents in The Firefly Summer, a middle-grade novel by Morgan Matson.
A young orphan finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation in The Night Raven, a novel by Johan Rundberg and translated by A. A. Prime.
A girl and her friend try to save their apartment building by entering a video contest in The Umbrella House, by Colleen Nelson.
A girl is determined to bring electricity to her Appalachian community in Light Comes to Shadow Mountain, a historical fiction novel by Toni Buzzeo.
An average kid finds himself as a finalist to be named World’s Greatest Kid in The Greatest Kid in the World, by John David Anderson.