Middle School Books

In this graphic memoir, an awkward, bullied kid's life changes when his parents send him on a class trip to Europe in 1989, where a series of firsts — first Fanta, first fondue, and first love — transform him forever.

After a family crisis sends eleven-year-old Sam to live with an aunt in rural Oregon, a mysterious card game comes to life and pulls her into a dangerous quest where the line between magic and reality grows thin.

When a spirited, imaginative orphan girl named Anne Shirley is sent by mistake to live with elderly siblings on a farm in Prince Edward Island, she transforms their lives with her wild imagination and big heart.

After standing up to her toxic best friend, a thirteen-year-old has no social life left — until a sweet wrong-number text from a mystery boy leads to a gaming friendship that might become something more.

When a boy rescues a baby griffin, he discovers the Archipelago — hidden islands where magical creatures have thrived for thousands of years — and must race across them to find out why the magic is dying.

At a summer music camp, two thirteen-year-old Black girls — one a grieving trumpet player, the other a secret dancer forced to play flute — form a life-changing friendship as they navigate loss, identity, and first love.

After a serious accident, seventh-grader Vale is finally cleared to fence again, but her body doesn't move like it used to — and catching up to the new number one proves harder than she expected. A novel in verse about chronic pain and finding your way back.

Fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello, an aspiring climber, is whisked away by his long-absent father to attempt to become the youngest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest — but the climb hides motives that put his life on the line.

In this graphic novel, Muslim American siblings who can't stop fighting are forced to spend time together during a family trip, where they discover a sick sea turtle and must work together to save it.

Brian, an anxious kid recently placed in foster care, and Ezra, a popular basketball teammate hiding a crush on Brian, must both find the courage to reach out to each other when things fall apart.

During World War II, a young man works to crack the Nazi Enigma code at Britain's secret Bletchley Park, while his sister tries to solve the mystery of their mother's disappearance.

In 1999 Delaware, a twelve-year-old's ordinary life is upended when a disoriented teenager appears claiming to be the world's first time traveler, carrying a book that reveals the next twenty years of history.

This nonfiction book tells the true story of how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911 and how the heist transformed a not-particularly-famous painting into the most famous artwork in the world.

A twelve-year-old who has been living on an old school bus with her dad for five years secretly plots a 3,600-mile road trip home to save a treasured memory box, picking up a crew of misfit travelers along the way.

Siblings start a detective agency with their friends and retired reporter grandfather in Miami, and their investigation into local history leads them to a remote island hiding a dangerous secret.

In this graphic novel, after a wildfire destroys her family's rural Oregon home, a middle-schooler relocates to Portland and slowly learns to turn her grief and anger into climate action with the help of new friends.