Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are middle grade books from 2024.
Browsing: Middle Grade
The original New York Times bestselling The Last Kids on Earth, by Max Brallier, is now a full-color graphic novel with illustrations by Brian Churilla.
A superhero’s pets come to the rescue when he needs them most in Sidekicks, a graphic novel by Dan Santat.
A girl thinks her dreams have come true when her family moves out of their van and into a house in Unsinkable Cayenne, by Jessica Vitalis.
A “troubled” student gets one last chance to turn things around in The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents, by Nicki Pau Preto.
A girl must deal with the aftermath of her brother’s kidnapping in The Shape of Lost Things, a middle-grade novel by Sarah Everett.
Witness the rise of Hitler’s Germany through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy in Rise of the Spider, the first book in a new series by Michael P. Spradlin.
Exiled to an uninhabitable planet, a girl discovers her government has been lying for centuries in Ashgarden, the final book in Michelle A. Barry’s Plotting the Stars series.
A deaf girl searches for her voice and discovers the true meaning of family along the way in Deer Run Home, by Ann Clare LeZotte.
Your Vote Matters, by Rebecca Katzman and Ellen Duda, walks readers through all the ins and outs of voting in America.