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Tween Reads for Each Pokémon Type
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Normal Type
Me and Marvin Gardens
by A. S. King

When his family's farmland is taken over by developers, Obe Devlin, a boy with health problems he doesn't like to think about, encounters a remarkable plastic-eating animal who becomes his best friend and biggest secret. 
Fire Type
The Storm Runner
by Jennifer Cervantes

A contemporary adventure inspired by Maya mythology follows the experiences of an avid explorer with a disabled leg who discovers that the dormant volcano near his home in New Mexico is a gateway to another world.
Water Type
Bayou Magic
by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Spending a summer at the bayou, city girl Maddy glimpses what she thinks might be a mermaid and learns from her wise grandmother her potential for carrying on her family's magical legacy. 
Grass Type
Forest World
by Margarita Engle

Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
Electric Type
Each Tiny Spark
by Pablo Cartaya

Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Ice Type
The Sea in Winter
by Christine Day

After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.
Fighting Type
Becoming Muhammad Ali : a novel
by James Patterson

Fully authorized by and written in cooperation with the Muhammad Ali estate, two powerhouse authors come together to tell the inspiring story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammed Ali, one of the greatest sports heroes of all time.
Poison Type
The Serpent's Secret
by Sayantani DasGupta

When her parents disappear and a demon appears in her kitchen, Kiranmala, who believed herself to be an ordinary sixth-grader, finds herself in another dimension where there is magic, winged horses, and talking birds.
Ground Type
Gregor the Overlander
by Suzanne Collins

When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy.
Flying Type
Nest
by Esther Ehrlich

When her peaceful home life in 1972 Cape Cod is devastated by her mother's serious health problem, 11-year-old Chirp finds comfort in a bird watching hobby and a mysterious friend with whom she creates a private world filled with adventure and discovery. 
Psychic Type
Savvy
by Ingrid Law

Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"—a magical power unique to each member of her family—just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Bug Type
Zinnia and the Bees
by Danielle Davis

Seventh-grader Zinnia's last-day-of-school got off to a bad start when she ended up in the vice principal's office for yarn-bombing a statue of the school mascot, but it is about to get a whole lot worse—because, thanks to the incompetence of Bee 641, a colony of commercial, migratory bees escaping from a truck has settled their colony in her hair.
Rock Type
The Canyon's Edge
by Dusti Bowling

Accompanying her father on a slot-canyon expedition in the Arizona desert a year after a random shooting changed their family forever, Nora is separated from her father and their supplies by a flash flood and must navigate the deadly natural hazards of the desert to survive.
Ghost Type
Spirit Hunters
by Ellen Oh

Feeling uncomfortable from the moment she arrives in her new home, Harper is dismayed by local rumors that her house is haunted and that every family that has ever lived there has suffered terrible tragedies, a situation that turns sinister when her cheerful little brother begins acting in alarming ways.
Dark Type
The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Dragon Type
The Dragon Warrior
by Katie Zhao

Training in secret when the Jade Society shuns them for their half-Chinese heritage, 12-year-old Faryn Liu conquers a demon in San Francisco’s Chinatown before resolving to prove herself by finding the gods’ island home before the end of the Lunar New Year.
Steel Type
The Gauntlet
by Karuna Riazi

Sucked into a mechanical board game and forced to defeat its diabolical architect in order to free themselves and others trapped with them, 12-year-old Farah and her two best friends receive assistance from a lizard guide and an aeronaut while battling fantastical beasts and solving difficult puzzles.
Fairy Type
Estranged
by Ethan M Aldridge

Enduring lives where their differences render them outcasts, a changeling and a human child must unite when a cruel sorceress ascends the throne, placing the fates of both worlds in their hands.

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