Category Must Read Middle Grade

Double Fudge Judy Blume Ages 7-10 Fudge is obsessed with money. He’s making his own “Fudge Bucks” and has plans to buy the entire world. But life gets really crazy when Fudge and his older brother, Peter, run into their…

Chocolate Fever Robert Kimmel Smith Ages 7-10 Getting Chocolate Fever can change your ideas about chocolate and life! Henry Green is a boy who loves chocolate. He likes it bitter, sweet, dark, light, and daily; for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and…

Chicken Boy Francis O’Rourk Dowell Ages 10-14 Meet Tobin McCauley. He’s got a near-certifiable grandmother, a pack of juvenile-delinquent siblings, and a dad who’s not going to win father of the year any time soon. To top it off, Tobin’s…

Chasing Redbird Sharon Creech Ages 9-13 It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-year-old Zinny discovered the old, overgrown trail that ran through the woods behind her family’s house, she realized that things were about to change.…

Charlie & Frog Karen Kane Mystery Ages 8-12 Charlie’s parents have left him (again). This time they are off to South Africa to help giant golden moles. And Charlie? He’s been dumped with his TV-obsessed grandparents. Lonely and curious, Charlie…

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham Ages 12-13  Readers today are still fascinated by Nat, an eighteenth-century nautical wonder and mathematical wizard. Nathaniel Bowditch grew up in a sailor’s world—Salem in the early days, when tall-masted ships from foreign…

Caddie Woodlawn Carol Ryrie Brink Classics Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She’d rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother’s dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most…

Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson  Memoir Ages 9-12 Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in…

Bridge to Terabithia Katherine Paterson Realistic Fiction Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The…

Boy Tales of Childhood Roald Dahl Ages 8-12 From his own life, of course! As full of excitement and the unexpected as his world-famous, best-selling books, Roald Dahl’s tales of his own childhood are completely fascinating and fiendishly funny. Did…