It’s a race against time for a girl to save her family’s refuge for extraterrestrials in The Extraterrestrial Zoo: Finding the Lost One, by Samantha van Leer.
Browsing: Middle Grade
Who Owns the Moon? And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space, by Cynthia Levinson and Jennifer Swanson is a primer for teens who may someday travel to the moon.
A girl who caught between the realm of the living and dead gets lost in the Underworld in River of Spirits, the first book in The Underwild series by Shana Targosz.
A girl must solve riddles, follow flues, find a secret island and break a 200-year-old curse in Isle of Ever, a middle-grade novel by Jen Calonita.
Fifth grade becomes overwhelming for a girl who struggles with depression in Octopus Moon, a novel in verse by Bobbie Pyron.
Learn the tales of Irish faerie folk in The Faerie Isle: Tales and Traditions of Ireland’s Forgotten Folklore, by Síne Quinn and Dermot Flynn.
Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
A girl is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school in A Study in Secrets, the first book in a new series by Debbi Michiko Florence.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling A Wizard of Earthsea has now been reimagined in a graphic novel by acclaimed artist Fred Fordham.
Two kids from different times become pen pals in Right Back at You, a middle-grade novel by Carolyn Mackler.