Category Must Read Middle Grade

Counting By 7’s

Counting By 7’s Holly Goldberg Sloan Realistic Fiction Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone…

Read MoreCounting By 7’s

Auggie & Me

Auggie & Me R.J. Palacio Realistic Fiction Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie’s world through three new points of view. These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his…

Read MoreAuggie & Me

Wonder

Wonder R.J. Palacio Realistic Fiction I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse.  August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting…

Read MoreWonder

Number the Stars

Number the Stars Lois Lowry Historical Fiction Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an…

Read MoreNumber the Stars

Holes

Holes Louis Sachar Realistic Fiction Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where…

Read MoreHoles

Out Of My Heart

Out Of My Heart Sharon M. Draper Realistic Fiction Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even…

Read MoreOut Of My Heart

Out Of My Mind

Out Of My Mind Sharon M. Draper Realistic Fiction Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can’t walk. She can’t talk. She can’t write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can…

Read MoreOut Of My Mind

The Giver

The Giver Lois Lowry Dystopia  Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone…

Read MoreThe Giver