Gordon Korman, 329 pages . Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate e...

, 177 pages . From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take. This story was go...

Evan Griffith, 295 pages . Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee ...

Crystal Allen, 290 pages . Thirteen-year-old Lamar Washington is the maddest, baddest, most spectacular bowler at Striker's Bowling Paradise. But while Lamar's a whiz at rolling strikes, he always strikes out with girls. And hi...

Marcus Stroman, 172 pages . In this first book in the semi-autobiographical middle grade series from MLB pitcher Marcus Stroman, a young baseball player learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice-and some strikeo...

Janet Fox, 189 pages . Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, “it’s best if we keep it to ourselves,” and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing. Hiding where you ...

Lisa Fipps, 209 pages . A gripping new novel in verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish, featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him. Joe Oak is used t...

Judy Blume, 163 pages . Life isn't easy for Margaret. She's moved away from her childhood home, she's starting a new school, finding new friends – and she's convinced she's not normal. For a start she hasn't got a clue wheth...

by Jerry Spinelli, 179 pages . A modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli. "Readers will devour this humorous glimpse of what jocks are made of." - School Library Journal, starred review Cocky seventh-grade super-jock...

Tanya Guerrero, 409 pages . From Tanya Guerrero, the author of All You Knead Is Love and How to Make Friends with the Sea, comes Adrift, an upper middle grade contemporary story of survival and grief about two biracial Filipino ...

Alan Gratz, 333 pages . September 11, 2001, New York City: Brandon is visiting his dad at work, on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center. Out of nowhere, an airplane slams into the tower, creating a fiery nightmare of te...

Gillian McDunn, 282 pages . Elliott isn't sure where he fits in. Ever since his best friend moved away and his dad and stepmom announced the arrival of their new baby, he's been feeling invisible. Plus his dad just doesn't seem ...

Sharon M. Draper, 337 pages . Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps...

Alan Gratz, 339 pages . JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... ISABEL is a Cuban girl i...

R. J. Palacio, 387 pages . Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhatt...

by Jean Fritz, 201 pages . This heartwarming fictionalized autobiography tells the story of what it is like for a little girl to be growing up in an unfamiliar place. While other girls her age were enjoying childhood in Amer...

by Jacqueline Woodson, 151 pages . D Foster showed up a few months before Tupac got shot that first time and left us the summer before he died. The day D Foster enters Neeka and her best friend's lives, the world opens up for them. ...

by Angela Dominguez, 147 pages . In her first middle-grade novel, award-winning author Angela Dominguez tells a heartwarming story based on her own experiences growing up Mexican-American. Stella Diaz loves marine animals, especia...

by Sharon Creech, 103 pages . An Indie Next List Pick!A winning tale of love. - Kirkus. Perfect for fans of Charlottes Web and The One and Only Ivan, Saving Winslow is an uplifting modern classic in the making about a young boy wh...

by Kelly Yang, 361 pages . Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Mote...

by Pablo Cartaya, 265 pages . One boy's search for his father leads him to Puerto Rico in this moving middle grade novel, for fans of Ghost and See You in the Cosmos. Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a...

by Erin Entrada Kelly, 235 pages . Future rock star, or friendless misfit? That's no choice at all. Apple Yengko moved from the Philippines to Louisiana when she was little, and now that she is in middle school, she grapples with being...

by Lynne Rae Perkins, 247 pages . Debbie is wishing something would happen. Something good. To her. Soon. In the meantime, Debbie loses a necklace and finds a necklace (and boy does the necklace have a story to tell), she goes jean...

by Cynthia Kadohata, 215 pages . kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the ...

by Corabel Shofner, 91 pages . In this quirky and heartfelt middle-grade debut, a girl determined to free her mother from wrongful imprisonment discovers saving grace in the form of her estranged aunt, an ornery silent nun. Twel...

by Jason Reynolds, 191 pages . A National Book Award Finalist for Young Peoples Literature.Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middl...

by Jason Reynolds, 245 pages . The sequel to National Book Award Finalist Ghost and a New York Times bestseller A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun her personal demons in...

by Jason Reynolds, 123 pages . Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Sunny is the main character in this nov...

by Jason Reynolds, 227 pages . Lu must learn to leave his ego on the sidelines if he wants to finally connect with others in the climax to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Track series from Jason Reynolds. Lu was...

by Thanhha Lai, 317 pages . This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Awardwinning and Newbery Honor Book "Inside Out & Back Again", follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning o...

by Rebecca Stead, 311 pages . This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead explores multiple perspectives on the bonds and limits of friendship. Bridge is an accident survivor who's wondering why she's still alive...

by Kat Yeh, 335 pages . Take two sisters making it on their own: brainy twelve-year-old GiGi (short for Galileo Galilei, a name she never says out loud) and junior-high-dropout-turned-hairstylist DiDi (short for Delta Dawn)....

by Gary D. Schmidt, 393 pages . In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero. The Wednesday Wars is a wonderfully witty and compelling story about a teenage boy's mishaps and adventures over ...

by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, 165 pages . Whether she's telling the truth or stretching it, Zora Neale Hurston is a riveting storyteller. Her latest creation is a shape-shifting gator man who lurks in the marshes, waiting to steal human souls...

by Marcus Sedgwick, 261 pages . Laureth Peak's father is a writer. For years he's been trying, and failing, to write a novel about coincidence. His wife thinks he's obsessed, Laureth thinks he's on the verge of a breakdown. He's sup...

by Linda mullaly hunt, 269 pages . Winner of the Scheider Family Book Award. "Everybody is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life believing it is stupid." Ally has b...

by Lisa Graff, 245 pages . Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most musical. In fact, Albie has a long list of the things he's no...

by Lisa Graff, 191 pages . The Thing About Georgie is a warm and humorous story starring an unforgettable young boy with dwarfism, from acclaimed author Lisa Graff. As far as Georgie is concerned, everyone has a "thing." ...

by Lauren Allbright, 181 pages . Twelve-year-old Ross tries to discover the formula for being funny and getting his new classmates to like him in this laugh-out-loud debut novel. Ross Stevens has changed schools twelve times in th...

Written by Jeff Kinneyn, 111 pages . In this first volume of three, this serial records a middle-school everykid's triumphs and (more often) tribulations through the course of a school year. Largely through his own fault, mishaps seem to...

Written by Jeff Kinneyn, 123 pages . The highly anticipated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling book! Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules chronicles Greg's attempts to navigate the hazards of middle school, impress the girls, ...

Written by Jeff Kinneyn, 121 pages . "This highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level."--Publishers Weekly, 2009 Greg and his family and friends, ...

by Rachel Renee Russell, 171 pages . Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new school - and her very first diary packed with hilarious stories in Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki ...

by Carol Lynch Williams, 141 pages . Laura Stephan has the most embarrassing mother in Mapleton--maybe even in the whole state of Utah. Since there's no place big enough to hide her mom, Laura has to think of a way to change her. So she ...

by David Getz, 209 pages . "If there's one thing pushy Maxine knows, it's that she's destined to be an inventor. When an anonymous benefactor sends her an application for the Inventions of Children Contest, she thinks she's fou...

by Adrian Fogelin, 351 pages . "Anna Casey is a twelve-year-old girl who is trying to adjust to life with Miss Dupree, her foster parent. Anna has lived with her grandmother, and later with her aunt and uncle; now, she wants to hav...

by Polly Horvath, 133 pages . Mosquitoes and freakish pigs? If this is Iowa, Imogene wants nothing to do with it! Imogene's summer camp has burned down, and, typically, her parents won't let her stay in New York. Instead, they are...

by June Rae Wood, 309 pages . "With her alcoholic mother frequently incapacitated, thirteen-year-old Freedom has learned to look out for herself and her younger half-brother, Jackie. Fearing that they will be sent to a foster home...

by Jim Heynen, 309 pages . Henry and Gretchen are the youngest children in two Iowa farm families. Being youngest, they get left out, blamed, ignored, and picked on all the time. At least that's how, being youngest, they tend t...

by Katherine Paterson, 169 pages . A Newbery Medal BookAll summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by...

by Kristin Butcher, 189 pages . Kelly Romani is a renowned troublemaker and a pitching phenomenon. With the playoffs approaching and scouting interest heating up, his future looks bright. Unfortunately, his independent streak usuall...

by Donna Jo Napoli, 129 pages . How do you deal with changes in your life when they seem totally beyond your control? Ten-year-old Eileen must learn to cope with the changes that ensue when her father moves out of the house and take...

by Frances O'roark Dowell, 177 pages . Tobin McCauley's got a near- certifiable grandmother, a pack of juvenile- delinquent siblings, and a dad who's not going to win father of the year any time soon. To top it off, Tobin's only friend tru...

by Betsy Duffey, 111 pages . "The last thing that Hart, twelve, wants to do is get to know his mother's new boyfriend, Dub Dugan. Compared to his father, Dub is a dud - even if he is a well-known weatherman with a Willard Scott p...

by David Patneaude, 159 pages . Josh Showalter, an insecure and overweight sixth-grader, hopes for a new start when he transfers to a school in northern Idaho, but he and his new friends are soon the target of a cold-hearted bully. ...

by Holly Goldberg Sloan, 387 pages . In the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle-grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Wi...

by Adrian Fogelin, 239 pages . A moving, coming-of-age story of a young white girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town. For ages 9 to 12....

by Walter Dean Myers, 167 pages . Thirteen-year-old Darnell Rock is not the kind of kid who would normally volunteer on a school newspaper--it sounds way too much like homework. But Darnell is being given one last chance by the princi...

by Beverly Cleary, 95 pages . A Newbery Medal Winner"Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pu...

by Jane Mills, 143 pages . Mischievous Dinah struggles to remain the center of attention when her baby brother comes home from the hospital and her best friend gets a lead role in the class play. For ages 9 to 12....

by Jamie Gilson, 167 pages . Sam acts like a smart aleck to keep from looking dumb. Sam Mott's made it most of the way through sixth grade barely able to read and write. Now Sam's family's moved again, and none of the kids in his...

by Jan Siebold, 71 pages . Twelve-year-old Mitch is sentenced to community service after his prank harms an elderly woman. To make amends he must chat online with a nursing home resident twice a week. Over time he bonds with Wo...

by Pam Zollman, 123 pages . Megan Hollander has a lot to worry about. For her science project, she needs to collect twenty-five different species of bugs--and she doesn't even like bugs! To make matters worse, her little brother...

by Sally Warner, 239 pages . About my feet, let me just announce that they're way too big. They look like clown feet, and pink satin toe shoes don't help. Advance self-improvement: start saving now for when I finally stop dancing...

by Beverly Cleary, 179 pages . Can imaginative Emily make her biggest dream come true? Spunky Emily Bartlett lives in an old farmhouse in Pitchfork, Oregon - at a time when automobiles are brand-new inventions and libraries are ...

by Michele Granger, 151 pages . There's this gorgeous new guy in Marty's fifth grade class--her teacher. Everyone has a crush on him. So how can she and her best friend, Nina, get the attention of the handsome Mr. Truesdale? By beco...

by Wendelin van Draanen, 287 pages . The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. And from the second grade to the seventh, that's how it was. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss...

by Jean Little, 217 pages . Anna has always been the clumsy one in the family. Somehow she can never do anything right! She bumps into tables, and she can't read the blackboard at her school. Her perfect brothers and sisters cal...

by E. L. Konigsburg, 165 pages . When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort - she would live at ...

by Judie Wolkoff, 263 pages . You are cordially invited to the rain-or-shine outdoor wedding of Kitty and Sarah Birdsall's mother to R.J. Krampner's father and to all the hullaballoo created by twenty-four members of their "revise...

by Louise Fitzhugh, 311 pages . Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in ...

by Andrea Davis Pinkney, 151 pages . For twelve-year-old Deirdre "Camera Dee" Willis, home is Redmond Avenue in Baltimore, where she loves to take photographs of her friends and jump rope with her double-dutch team, the Jumpin' Jive Five...

by Robert McCloskey, 109 pages . In six preposterous tales, Robert McCloskey takes a good look at the face of mid-western America with humorous and affectionate eyes. No matter how old or young the reader, the strange skulduggery of ...

by Julie Anne Peters, 151 pages . Best friends Kimberly and Ann both have a dream to make it to the National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.c. Eighth grade is the last year they can qualify, so they are practicing day and night. But th...

by Thanhha Lai, 145 pages . (A Newbery Honor Book) "No one would believe me, but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama ..." For all the ten years of her life, Ha has only known Saigon: the thr...

by Coe Booth, 301 pages . Eleven-year-old Jarrett doesn't trust Kevon. But he's got to share a room with him anyway. It was one thing when Jarrett's mom took care of foster babies who needed help. But this time it's differe...

by Ruth White, 151 pages . "What else would you wish for?" Daddy says. "If you could have anything in the world, what would you wish for?" I shrug. "Oh, I don't know. Maybe ..." "Maybe what?" "For us to live better tha...

by Susan Patron, 199 pages . "Riding the same wave of warmth and quirkiness that distinguished Patron's Newbery-winning The Higher Power of Lucky, this sequel continues the musings of Lucky Tipton as she looks for adventur...

by Beverly Cleary, 195 pages . DOUBLE TROUBLE! Mitch and Amy both think being twins is fun, but that doesn't stop them from squabbling. Amy is good at reading. Mitch is a math whiz. Amy likes to play pretend. Mitch would rather ...

by Kathryn Erskine, 213 pages . In Caitlin's world, everything is black or white. Things are good or bad. Anything in between is confusing. That's the stuff Caitlin's older brother, Devon, has always explained. But now Devon's dead ...

by Ronder Thomas Young, 303 pages . After his daddy, Big Kenny, runs off, Freddy James Johnson figures he's man enough to follow suit and leave the farm behind himself. That would be an adventure. But then, moving Mama to town--helping ...

by Rosemary Graham, 239 pages . Farnsworth House, a.k.a., the Hippie Hotel, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a place where divorced parents bring their children for a summer of wholesome outings and compulsory fun. It's not exactly Tr...

by Eve Bunting, 71 pages . Colin has spent weeks perfecting his sneaker odor for The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest. If he wins, he'll get three brand-new pairs of Slam Dunkers sneakers: one for himself, one for his li...

by Linda Crew, 199 pages . Life at Robby Hummer's house is wild, fun, and a big mess - ever since his twin brother and sister were born. At school, he'd rather read quietly than play games at recess or watch a filmstrip. But hi...

by Linda Crew, 183 pages . Robby Hummer loves everything about Christmas - except the school play. He dreads being an elf in green tights. But the joyful season wins him over to the play, as well as to the idea that, while some...

by Mary Stolz, 193 pages . A 1966 Newbery Honor Book "Franny and her twin brother live in a home where every dollar counts, and Franny resents having to get a pass for a free lunch. She dreams of bringing her lunch to school...

by Barthe DeClements, 145 pages . Jenny knows one thing for sure - Elsie Edwards is a fat thief who steals people's lunch money to buy candy. So when the book club money disappears, why is the whole class punished? Nothing's fair! ...

by Johnniece Marshall Wilson, 143 pages . Brothers Alex and Andrew just can't seem to get along. Alex, the younger and more responsible, has a paper route and a bicycle. Andrew has a part time job for a while but spends most of his time at th...

by Kevin Henkes, 179 pages . A Newbery Honor Book. Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends. But they weren't--and now all that is left are eerie connections between two girls who were in the same grade at schoo...

by Joseph Krumgold, 277 pages . (A Newbery Medal Book) It's one thing to have a father who wants to decide your future. It's quite another when he steals your best friend and tries to change his life, too. Even though his fath...

by Sharon M. Draper, 309 pages . Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no DELETE button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school - but no...

by Paul Pitts, 185 pages . The fact that he's an American Indian isn't something Brandon Rogers publicizes. His father abandoned his Navajo ways back in college. But when his grandfather moves in with the family, twelve-year-ol...

by Paula Fox, 87 pages . Five years separate Paul from his younger brother, Jacob, who has Down syndrome. With meticulous tenderness, this story gentles Paul out of his rage at a family situation he can't control. Slowly, dra...

by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, 65 pages . Schneider Family Book Award. Josie Wyatt knows what it means to be different. Her family's small farmhouse seems to shrink each time another new mansion goes up behind it. Her mom is demanding, her gr...

by Sarah Weeks, 91 pages . Stranger than Strang! Guy Strang is convinced that the man and woman with whom he has lived all his life cannot possibly be what they claim to be--his parents. They're just too weird! Would anyone els...

by Mitali Perkins, 57 pages . Naima loves to create the traditional alpana patterns Bangladeshi women and girls paint in their homes for special celebrations. Her designs are always the best in her village. But Naima wishes she co...

by Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna, 133 pages . "Roger causes plenty of mischief at his parochial school. He can't resist playing tricks on classmate Marsha, such as scaring her with a dead snake. But soon Roger, his best friend Patrick, and Marsha...

by Cynthia Lord, 179 pages . A Newbery Honor Book. Schneider Family Book Award. Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves a...

by Paul Fleischman, 59 pages . One by one, people of all ages transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. "This novel (a Newbery award w...

by Louis Sachar, 127 pages . There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened ...

by Eve Bunting, 135 pages . His name is Pebbles, and he's our mascot. Everyone in the sixth-grade reading club will be going to the sleepover in the cafeteria--everyone except Janey. And that's because she has a horribly emba...

by Matt Christopher, with Paul Mantell, 139 pages . When Matt Harper steps off the plane, he knows his life is about to change. For one thing, he'll be living with his uncle for a year while his mother works for the government in a mysterious job overs...

by Robert Newton Peck, 111 pages . Everyone in Miss Kelly's class is excited about the upcoming election for school president. The good news is that Rob's best friend, Soup, is the boys' candidate, and the bad news is that the girls' c...

by Ralph Fletcher, 151 pages . After moving to another state, seventh grader Bobby deals with the change by telling people at school made-up stories - and then retreating into his world of pet spiders and books about spiders. Creat...

by Richard Peck, 199 pages . Her new town is a mystery to Molly even before she knows how many secrets it keeps. After a lifetime of following her mother through one faceless city after another, Molly finds herself dumped on her ...

by Stephanie S. Tolan, 229 pages . Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school - and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge...

by Betty Levin, 103 pages . "For as long as Ben, Kate, and Foster can remember, the Flints, on the farm down the road, have grown sweet corn for the whole neighborhood, including the various critters who raid the fields. When th...

by Amy Goldman Koss, 223 pages . California, AKA Dadland doesn't exactly feel like home to John, who lives with his mom and sister in Kansas. But every summer John flies to L.a. to see his father, and every summer he hopes for a visi...

by Tom Birdseye, 135 pages . "Ryan O'Keefe knows it's bad when you're the shortest kid in your class. To make matters worse, his parents moved the family from Arizona to Kentucky. Could things become worse? Of course! He'll be...

by Kimberly Newton Fusco, 143 pages . Lenore is Cornelia's mother - and Cornelia's fix-up project. What does it matter that Cornelia won't talk to anyone, and is always stuck in the easiest English class at school, even though she's read ...

by Barbara Robinson, 111 pages . A dangerous, shifty, fearless, cigar-smoking family of thieves and fight-instigators, the six horrible Herdmans are distributed one per grade at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, and it is unclear whe...

by Barbara Robinson, 81 pages . The Herdmans plus Halloween have always spelled disaster. Every year these six kids--the worst in the history of Woodrow Wilson School, and possibly even the world--wreak havoc on the whole town. They...

by Paula Danziger, 135 pages . When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reins...

by Kwame Alexander, 175 pages . (2015 Newberry Award Winner) "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks ... The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announc...

by John D. Fitzgerald, 233 pages . The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, AKA the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Grea...

by Katherine Paterson, 197 pages . (A Newbery Honor Book) At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been pla...

by Fred Bowen, 95 pages . "What is the team going to do? The coach, Mr. Skelly, just doesn't seem to make time for the team. Scott and his teammates come up with an idea. Scott will request that he be assigned as the player/co...

by Fred Bowen, 87 pages . Brendan, one of the best players in the league, can't make his team win - no matter how hard he tries. But after meeting Ernie Banks, the legendary Cubs player and Hall-of-Fame member, Brendan realize...

by Barbara Park, 103 pages . When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl ...

by Audrey Shafer, 263 pages . Vernon Culligan has been dead to the town of Drayford, Virginia, so long that when the crusty Vietnam veteran actually dies, only one person notices. Twelve-year-old Gabe grew up in the foster care sy...

by Dan Gutman, 191 pages . Gooooooal! Whisper Nelson's mental videotape remembers everything--including scoring a point for the opposing team in her last soccer match four years ago (yikes!). So when she wins a chance to kic...

by Jeanne Birdsall, 299 pages . A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy. National Book Award Winner. Meet the Penderwicks, four different sisters with one special bond. There's responsible, practica...

by Susan Beth Pfeffer, 143 pages . Sometimes whispering is worse than shouting. At least it is for seventh-grader Taryn Powell. She knows her parents are fighting. But what can she do to stop them? At school she finds herself wondering...

by E. Nesbit, 303 pages . England. When the father of a happy family in a comfortable London home is mysteriously called away on business, the mother and three children move to a small country cottage near a train station, whe...

by Garrison Keillor and Jenny Lind Nilsson, 415 pages . Fourteen-year-old Rachel Green has always known her parents were a little ... eccentric. The Greens are the only people in town without a television, though they do have a piano in the dining room. He...

by Gary Paulsen, 97 pages . Harold Schernoff, fourteen-year-old science whiz and social outcast, has a theory to solve every problem, from dating, to dealing with bullies, to making money, to playing sports, to buying a car when...

by Andrew Clements, 167 pages . Twelve-year-old Natalie Nelson has written a powerful school story. It's a short novel called "The Cheater," and her best friend Zoe is certain it should be published. All Natalie has to do is give th...

by Ali Benjamin, 255 pages . After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to ...

by Sheila Hayes, 263 pages . Holly Gerard wishes with all her heart that she had a normal mother. But the number she drew --in that big family lottery in the sky--is Paisley Gerard, a fugitive from the 60's, who would like nothin...

by Colby Rodowsky, 137 pages . Ann Olivia Lyons has only one relative, her mother. When her mother dies, Livvy finds herself transported from New York City to Baltimore, to live with her mother's old college friend--a woman Livvy h...

by Johanna Hurwitz, 79 pages . While vacationing at Bolivia's house in Ithaca, New York, eleven-year-old Rory tries to hide his fear of flying after Bolivia suggests a trip in her uncle's airplane. For ages 8 to 11....

by E. L. Konigsburg, 221 pages . (Newbery Medal Winner.) How had Mrs. Olinski chosen her sixth-grade Academic Bowl team? She had a number of answers. But were any of them true? How had she really chosen Noah and Nadia and Ethan an...

by Alison Cragin Herzig and Jane Lawrence Mali, 71 pages . "Ten-year-old Bridget wants to fit in with her three older brothers, and the boys are perfectly willing to help her out. It's easy for them to lay down the law: no flowered shorts, plenty of push-ups,...

by Louis Sachar, 225 pages . Winner of seventeen Children's Choice Awards nationwide, here is Louis Sachar's most beloved novel. "Fifth grader Bradley Chalkers is bright, imaginative, antisocial and friendless. Unlike the kids at...

by Dori Hillestad Butler Who's Who?, 151 pages . All Jason Pfeiffer wants to do is finish his horror movie script. Lately, though, his whole life is full of horrors! He has to take swimming lessons, put his face in the water, and deal with Tank Talb...

by Nancy K. Robinson, 127 pages . The girls at Veronica's new school think she is showing off to get attention, but Veronica just wants to make friends. For ages 8 to 11....

by Joan Carris, 151 pages . As if he doesn't have enough to handle with Mom sick in bed and Dad away on business, thirteen-year-old Jut's real problem is how to make the school basketball team. Now there's not much time at home ...

by R. J. Palacio, 399 pages . "I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream ...

by Susin Nielsen, 263 pages . "Twelve-year-old Ambrose Bukowski and his widowed, overprotective mother, an adjunct professor, move frequently. When he almost dies after he bites into a peanut that bullies put in his sandwich, just...