Middle Grade

Middle Grade is a genre of novels written specifically for children roughly between the ages of 8 and 12 years old. These books are designed to match the emotional, intellectual, and social experiences of kids in upper elementary to early middle school.

Licorice
This Is a Door
Wondrous
Dasia [Forever]
The Moonlit Spiral: A Graphic Novel
Starting Now
Like Glass
Front Desk: The Graphic Novel
Juana Fanta Needs a Hero
How to Walk a Dog
The Whole Wide World of Mabel Mulligan: A Graphic Novel
Children of Owl
Karen's New Year: A Graphic Novel (Baby-sitters Little Sister #13) (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix)
The Sea Witch Prophecy (Witchlings #5)
Mixed Signals: A Graphic Novel (Mixed Feelings #2) (2)
Fight or Flight (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #21)
The Wild Zone (Camp Half-Blood, #1)
Kristy and the Snobs: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #10)
Baby-sitters on Board! (The Baby-sitters Club Super Special Graphic Novels #1)
Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy #1 (Warriors Graphic Novel: The New Prophecy, #1)
No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #18)
Diper Överlöde (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #17)
Very Bad at Math (A Very Graphic Novel #1)
Odder
The Neverfear (Impossible Creatures #3)
Blood in the Water
Ground Zero
Spy School Goes East
Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, #1)
Alone (Alone #1)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienCharlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteIl giardino segreto by Frances Hodgson BurnettHarry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
50 Books Every Child Should Read
1,517 books — 1,242 voters
Crank by Ellen HopkinsImpulse by Ellen HopkinsIdentical by Ellen HopkinsGlass by Ellen HopkinsBurned by Ellen Hopkins
Novels in Verse
467 books — 809 voters

Little Blue Truck by Alice SchertleThe Giver by Lois LowryDogs vs Bears by Austin    DavisThe Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley SpiresOswald the Almost Famous Opossum by Sara Pascoe
Middle School Book List
1,122 books — 747 voters

Harry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Lightning Thief by Rick RiordanHoles by Louis Sachar
Top 100 Middle School Must-Reads
2,329 books — 3,840 voters

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3)
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4)
The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5)
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)
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