A funny, relatable middle school drama about two Colombian American girls who have always been BFFs-until sixth grade turns everything upside down.
JRUND, K
Impossible Creatures
KatherineRundell
TheNightWar JBRAD, K
Kimberly BrubakerBradley
During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding.
Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.
JSTRO, K
TheSecretDead Club
KarenStrong
Wednesday Thomas sees ghosts. After a terrifying experience with a wicked ghost, Wednesday and her mother move back south to the family home in Georgia. Wednesday is determined not to use her gift anymore, until she meets a group of girls who also know about the spirit realm.
TheTruthAbout Triangles
MichaelLeali
A heartfelt contemporary middle grade novel following Luca Salvatore, a young gay Italian American trying to save his family's pizza restaurant and a life that feels like it's falling apart after he learns that his parents may be separating and his first crush and best friend might be into each other.
JHOOD, S
Lifeboat5
SusanHood
When Nazi bombs begin to destroy Bess Walder's hometown of East London, Bess convinces her parents to evacuate her and her younger brother, Louis, to Canada aboard the SS City of Benares. On the fifth day at sea, everyone starts to relax, but trouble is right behind them. That night, a Nazi Uboat torpedoes the Benares. As their luxury liner starts to sink, Bess and her new friend Beth rush to abandon ship aboard their assigned lifeboat.
JCURR, L
LindsayCurrie TheMysteryof LockedRooms
From the author of Scritch Scratch comes an action-packed mystery novel about three friends who team up to find a hidden treasure in an abandoned 1950's funhouse.
JBAPT, T
TraceyBaptiste Boy2.0
When thirteen-year-old Coal discovers he can turn invisible, he searches for answers about his past with the help of his friends and his new foster family.
JURSU, A
NotQuitea Ghost
AnneUrsu
Violet’s new attic bedroom is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper covered with a faded tangle of twisting vines and sickly flowers. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill—and does not get better, leading her to believe she may not be alone in the room at all.
PabloCartaya
Baseball is Elena Rueda's entire life: She may be the only girl on her team, but she's the best player and everyone knows it. Except Elena has stopped having fun, and it's time to leave the sport behind. The problem is, Elena has no idea who she is without a bat in her hand.
JessicaStremer
NicholasDay TheMonaLisa
A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world—and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all.
A captivating overview of the clever ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature. KaileiPew
What do swim fins, Popsicles®, InfectionDetecting Stitches, and the Braille alphabet have in common? They were all invented by kids! Full of fun and inspiring stories about real kid inventors who proved that even the youngest people can change the world.
The story follows Jane from her first realization of the unfairness that limited the lives, livelihoods, and health of disadvantaged people in the late 1800s to her becoming one of the most beloved-and most disliked-women of her day. GillArbuthnott
Earth's oceans cover 70 percent of its surface. Yet the ocean is the most unexplored region of our planet. From Shore to Ocean Floor is the story of how humans went from building the first boats to discovering the secrets of the deep.
