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Chris Grabenstein, 275 pages . "Chris Grabenstein just might be the smartest writer for kids in the universe." --James Patterson What if you could learn everything just by eating jellybeans?! Meet the Smartest Kid in the Univers...

Jaime Formato, 391 pages . Perfect for fans of Dungeons & Dragons, Raina Telgemeier, and Jessica Kim, a heartfelt coming-of-age middle grade novel about finding your voice and believing in your best geeky self. Riley Henders...

K. R. Alexander, 226 pages . WESTWORLD meets CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY meets JURASSIC PARK, as kids win a chance to enter the place of their dreams -- and find that it quickly turns into a nightmare. It's all anyone ta...

Rachelle Delaney, 249 pages . A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's bee hives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Ele...

Natalie Lloyd, 381 pages . From the bestselling author of A Snicker of Magic comes a heartfelt story about a girl who-armed with her trusty, snazzy wheelchair-refuses to let her brittle bone disease stand in the way of adventur...

Chantel Acevedo, 300 pages . Frank Fernandez's family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves-a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to...

Megan E. Freeman, 171 pages . Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to fin...

Rick Riordan, 472 pages . In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval war...

Mary E. Lambert, 259 pages . a flash flood separates them from the rest of their grade. Can they make it to safety? Lavender's class is on a field trip in the desert of Chiricahua National Monument, hiking down a ravine, when...

Betsy Uhrig, 301 pages . While brainstorming ideas to improve his aunt's boring children's book, 12-year-old Alex and his friends begin to act out new scenes that will make the plot more exciting ... and dangerous....

Mary Alice Monroe, 345 pages . Eleven-year-old Jake's life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake's spending the summer on tiny Dewees I...

Mary Alice Monroe, 305 pages . Jake Potter is back on Dewees Island for another summer with his beloved grandmother, Honey. This time, Jake is excited that his dad will be there as he continues to recover from his injuries sustaine...

by Susan Patron, 155 pages . Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom onl...

by Theodore Taylor, 133 pages . Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthand - until the freighter he and his mother are traveling t...

Matthew Ross Smith, 179 pages . When Grant Falloon's dreams of winning the Babblemoney Games are hindered by his parents' alternative lifestyle, he creates his own internet country to get back into the competition....

Kate Klise, Celia Krampien, 120 pages . What happens when two best friends take on the world's worst summer? On the first day of vacation, ten-year-old Ivy Crowden falls down the stairs and breaks her leg. Stuck in a plaster cast, she’s...

by Clare Vanderpool, 365 pages . At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the s...

by Kekla Magoon, 309 pages . This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warmth of a modern-day "The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963". Caleb Franklin and his big brother...

by Tony Abbott, 399 pages . Bestselling author Tony Abbott's epic new middle-grade series the Copernicus Legacy begins with The Forbidden Stone, a thrilling adventure packed with puzzles, intrigue, and action. Wade, Lily, Dar...

by Tony Abbott, 467 pages . Bestselling author Tony Abbott returns with the next book in the Copernicus Legacy series, a globe-trotting adventure packed with more riddles, puzzles, and secret histories. The hunt for Copernicu...

by Dan Geminhart, 263 pages . Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony-fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah,...

by Rebecca Stead, 345 pages . Peter is thrilled to join his parents on an expedition to Greenland, where his father studies global warming. Peter will get to skip school, drive a dog-sled, and-finally-share in his dad's adventures...

by Erin Entrada Kelly, 229 pages . Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships. Told from four intertwining points of view -...

by Robin Stevenson, 273 pages . How do you plan for the future when your own parents don't believe you have one? Wolf's mother is obsessed with saving the world's honeybees, so its not too surprising when she announces that she's...

by Robin Stevenson, 139 pages . Despite his father's opposition, Simon "Spacey" Drake is determined to become a long-distance sailor, so he signs up for a week-long live-aboard sailing course. The trip gets off to a rough start, but...

by Robin Stevenson, 97 pages . It's an ordinary nightmare of a family trip until Theo realizes that the beautiful girl beside the hotel pool is his childhood babysitter--and his first crush. Theo hasn't seen Ronnie for five years, ...

by Rebecca Chase, 285 pages . A charming, classic middle grade debut perfect for fans of Three Times Lucky and Because of Winn-Dixie with the most lovable pig since Wilbur in Charlottes Web. June Sparrow and her best friend - a...

by Linda Sue Park, 115 pages . This New York Times bestseller begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan - a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a p...

by Pseudonymous Bosch, 333 pages . A magical new series from Pseudonymous Bosch, the bestselling author of the Secret Series. Magic is BAD. As in fake. Cheesy. Unreal. At least, that's what Clay, who has seen one magic show too many...

by Armstrong Sperry, 91 pages . Mafatu's name means "Stout Heart", but his people call him a coward. Ever since the sea took his mother's life and spared his own, he has lived with deep fear. And even though his father is the Great ...

by Earl Fleck, 177 pages . On a canoeing and camping trip in Canada's Quetico Provincial Park, twelve-year-old Danny finds his strength and courage tested as he pushes himself to keep up with his father and older brother. Fo...

by Cassie Beasley, 309 pages . Fans of Big Fish, Peter Pan, and Roald Dahl will fall in love with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the power of seeing magic in the world. Do you believe in magic? Micah Tuttle does. Even though ...

by Edward Myers, 177 pages . After a car accident in a snowy Colorado pass seriously injures their parents, athletic fourteen-year-old Danielle and her brainy younger brother, Jake, must scale a mountain to find help. For ages...

by Neil Gaiman, 161 pages . "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house ..." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem ma...

by Chris Grabenstein, 317 pages . Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids, (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the...

by Peg Kehret, 151 pages . The Worst Vacation Ever! Thirteen-year-old Kyle thought spending a vacation on the Oregon coast with his family would be great. He'd never flown before, and he'd never seen the Pacific Ocean. On...

by Sherry Shahan, 181 pages . What begins as a two-night camping and kayaking trek in the untamed Alaskan wilderness turns into a test of survival for Cody and her cousin Derek. While their mothers are in Juneau picking up supplie...

by Gary Paulsen, 189 pages . Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothin...

by Gary Paulsen, 145 pages . In Gary Paulsen's classic novel, Hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is stranded in the Canadian wilderness. To survive, he must rely on his intelligence, his instincts, and one tool: a hatchet. ...

by Gary Paulsen, 125 pages . Once you have the woods in you, you're never the same. As millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, and Brian's Winter know, Brian Robeson is the ultimate survivor. Alone in the wilderness, he fac...

by Eth Clifford, 85 pages . The Indianapolis public library is a beautiful old building. To ten-year-old Mary Rose and seven-year-old Jo-Beth, it seems like the perfect place to slip to the bathroom while their dad runs off to g...

by Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick, 233 pages . Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban took control of her region. They said music was a crime. They said women weren't allowed to go to the market. They said girls couldn't even go ...

by Scott O'Dell, 175 pages . 1961 Newbery Medal WinnerIn the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound....

J. Dillard, 83 pages . J.D. has a big problem--it's the night before the start of third grade and his mom has just given him his first and worst home haircut. When the steady stream of insults from the entire student body o...

by Scott O'Dell, 175 pages . Zia, a fourteen-year-old Indian girl, is caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the mission. She and her brother, Mando, make plans to rescue Aunt Karana using a b...

by Michael Morpurgo, 139 pages . After eleven-year-old Michael and his dog Stella are washed overboard from his parents' sailboat near Australia, they wake up on an apparently deserted island. But Michael's signal fire brings an angr...

by Jean Craighead George, 193 pages . "Young Sam Gribley lives a comfortable life in New York City. But tired of urban living, he, with his parents' knowledge, runs away to the Catskills Mountains, determined to live on the site of his gr...

by Jean Craighead George, 199 pages . Two years ago, Sam ran away from New York City to live in the Catskill Mountains. Now his younger sister Alice has joined him and is quietly living in a tree house of her own nearby. Their peaceful li...

by Graham Salisbury, 263 pages . A Junior Library Guild Selection. "Boulders pounded down, their concussions vibrating through dirt, sand, and rock. Over in the coconut grove someone screamed, and horses shrieked." On the Big Isla...

by Marion Dane Bauer, 85 pages . Twelve-year-old Joel has unwillingly agreed to bike out to the state park with his daredevil friend Tony. "On his honor", he promises his father to be careful, knowing that Tony wants them to climb th...

by Rush Limbaugh, 231 pages . Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners. So he created the character of a fearless middle-schoo...

by Ann Nolan Clark, 175 pages . A Newbery Award Book Cusi, a modern Inca boy, leaves his home high in the Andes mountains to learn the mysterious secret of his ancient ancestors. Accompanied by his pet llama, Misti, he slowly di...

by Maia Wojciechowska, 159 pages . (A 1965 Newbery Award Book) Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness - how could he be, with the entire town...

by James Riley, 373 pages . A hilarious, action-packed series launches with a story-within-a-story, from the bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starr...

by Arthur Ransome, 501 pages . Two English families and their lively children spend the summer camping out on Wild Cat Island. They explore their miniature world, hunt for a hidden treasure, and follow the mysterious doings of an u...

by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 211 pages . (A Newbery Medal Honor Book) The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt....

by Natalie Savage Carlson, 93 pages . This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them. But t...

by Brian Selznick, 133 pages . (Caldecott Medal Winner) Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly int...

by Carol Fenner, 233 pages . Eleven-year-old Ian and his father have been homeless for the past several years. Then one night, Ian's father fails to return to their "home". Ian's precarious survival on his own, following all t...

by Jeannette Eyerly, 163 pages . Jenny is blind ... and the best and bravest friend a girl could ever have! When Carey learns that new neighbors are arriving, she hopes their daughter will become her new best friend. Then she lear...

by Tor Seidler, 223 pages . Katerina has always stuttered. When she begins seventh grade in a new school, she tries to hide her problem by barely speaking--which only convinces her classmates that Katerina, the granddaughter of ...

by Peg Kehret and Pete the Cat, 177 pages . Alex's family is one of the first to move to a new housing development. Two local bullies, who resent him because the new homes are built where the boys used to have dirt-bike trails, make life at sch...

by Sharon Creech, 231 pages . A Newbery Honor Book. Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the surly crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, t...

by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 325 pages . (A Newbery Honor Book) An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds set during World War II, from the acclaimed author of Jefferson's Sons - and for fans of Number the Stars. Nine-y...

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 409 pages . Like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall and Little Women, Ada conquers the homefront as her World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor-winning The War that Saved My ...

by Rodman Philbrick, 167 pages . Skiff Beaman has a boatload of problems. Ever since his mother died, his father doesn't want to get up off the TV couch-- even when the Mary Rose, his fishing boat, sinks at the dock. Twelve-year-old ...

by John Grisham, 271 pages . With two attorneys for parents, thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows more about the law than most lawyers do. But when a high-profile murder trial comes to his small town and Theo gets pulled into i...

by Jennifer L. Holm, 183 pages . In Jennifer L. Holm's New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor winning middle-grade historical fiction novel, life isn't like the movies. But then again, eleven-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple! ...

by William Pene du Bois, 159 pages . (A Newbery Medal Book, originally published in 1947) Professor William Waterman Sherman just wants to be alone. So he decides to take a year off and spend it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air...

by Michael Coleman, 213 pages . Daniel prefers his own company, as it gives him more time to explore the near-magical world of math and physics which so fascinates him. He certainly didn't want to go on a school camping trip with ot...

by Rebecca Stead, 213 pages . (2010 Newbery Medal Winner) Four mysterious letters change Miranda's world forever. By sixth grade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They ...

by Gary L. Blackwood, 159 pages . Thirteen-year-old Timothy is not the outdoorsy type - he has no desire to even wander around a park, let alone a wilderness preserve. Camping is bad enough, but when Timothy gets lost in the woods, hi...

by Stella Pevsner, 223 pages . Alexis has a great life going for her. She and her best friend Suzy live in the same condo in Chicago and tell each other everything. But this summer, how can Alexis reveal her secrets? For one thing,...

by Jerry Spinelli, 201 pages . Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten - the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll...