Category Must Read Middle Grade

Wicked Nix Lena Coakley Ages 8-12 Mischievous woodland fairy Nix is up to no good. His beloved fairy queen has gone away, leaving him with a very important job. He must protect the forest from a most dangerous enemy: humans.…

Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin Ages 7-10 In the valley of Fruitless mountain, a young girl named Minli lives in a ramshackle hut with her parents. In the evenings, her father regales her with old folktales of…

Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Carolyn Meyer Ages 9-13 At the age of nine, Cynthia Ann Parker was captured in an Indian raid and taken to live as a slave with the Comanche. Twenty-four years later, she is the…

Ugly Robert Hoge Ages 9-11 When Robert Hoge was born, he had a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs. Surgeons removed the tumor and made him a new nose…

Trouble River Betsy Byars Ages 8-12 Safety is downriver—but first there’s trouble ahead. As soon as Dewey Martin sees the Indian creeping toward the cabin—and toward his unsuspecting grandmother—he knows what to do: knock him down and take off before…

The Tiger Rising Kate DiCamillo Ages 9-11 Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary…

Thimble Summer Elizabeth Enright Ages 8-12 A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and…

The Witches Roald Dahl Ages 7-10 This is not a fairy tale. This is about realwitches. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There’s nothing they hate so much…

The Witch of Blackbird Pond Elizabeth George Speare Ages 10-13 Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced…

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi  Ages 10-13 Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was…