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Middle Grade Reads YA books for middle school and/or younger teens. |
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Undercover Latina
by Aya De León
Going undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist, Latina teen spy Andrǎ Hernaǹdez-Baldoqun finds her first solo mission to trap a terrorist endangered by her crush on the target's best friend. Simultaneous eBook.
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Falling short
by Ernesto Cisneros
Two best friends, one athletically gifted and one academically gifted, have more in common than they realize when their goals intersect, forcing them to find a way to support each other so they don't fall short.
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Fearbook club
by Richard Ashley Hamilton
When shy 6th-grade shutterbug Whit Garcia starts middle school, he's forced to join a yearbook club with three other weirdos who will never be voted 'most likely to succeed.' But after the ghosts of missing students start haunting them, Whit, Hester, Hillary and Press must solve the supernatural secret behind these spirits, or their yearbook club will be voted most likely to join them. But are these ghostly students the real bad guys? Or are they just warning Whit and his friends? Warning them about a darkness beyond their schoolyard, a darkness that threatens to swallow the school, and its occupants, whole.
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Cursed Princess Club. 1
by LambCat
Not your typical fairy-tale princess, Gwendolyn accidentally stumbles upon the twisted world of the Cursed Princess Club where she meets a group of ladies, hexed and cast out, who forever change her life.
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Girl in the blue coat
by Monica Hesse
Hanneke, a procurer of black-market goods in 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, is compelled to help a desperate neighbor track down a missing Jewish teen who had been hiding from the Nazis.
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A-okay
by Jarad Greene
While dealing with side effects from his powerful new acne medication, eighth grader Jay Greene finds things not going exactly as planned with school and his friends, and hopes things will turn out to be a-okay.
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In the After
by Demitria Lunetta
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth
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Home Time 2 : Beyond the Weaving
by Campbell Whyte
Under the River ended with a disastrous tea ceremony which left six kids lost, scared, confused, and even burnt. Now, the second half of the Home Time saga picks up from that nerve-wracking cliffhanger, as the children leave the relative safety of Peach Village in search of medicine, answers, and hopefully, a way home.
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When the ground is hard
by Malla Nunn
At Swaziland's Keziah Christian Academy, where the wealth and color of one's father determines one's station, once-popular Adele bonds with poor Lottie over a book and a series of disasters
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The twisted ones : the graphic novel
by Chris Hastings
One year after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, Charlie is still haunted by nightmares of the gruesome puppets, and when bodies turn up bearing wounds that are disturbingly similar, she is drawn back into the world of her father's frightening creations
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Project Bollywood
by Mahtab Narsimhan
Salman has a vision. Salman loves Hindi movies and wants to produce a short Bollywood film for his school project. He writes a script that is a mash-up of many of the movies he's seen and gathers his friends. As director, Salman insists that everyone follows the script exactly. But it's full of stereotypes and the cast and crew are not shy about expressing their concerns. When everyone threatens to walk out, Salman must decide whether to stand firm or find a way to collaborate.
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Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
by Robin Ha
Moving abruptly from Seoul to Alabama, a Korean teen struggles in a hostile blended home and a new school where she does not speak English before forging unexpected connections in a local comic drawing class.
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