PUZZLE SLEUTH UNDERCOVER: MORE MIND-BENDING MURDER PUZZLE MYSTERIES, by Paul Westmoreland, Ten Speed Young Readers, Jan. 27, 2026, Paperback, $9.99 (ages…
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A Year Without Home novel in verse about a Hmong girl losing and finding home in the aftermath of the Vietnam War by V. T. Bidania.
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of middle grade books that make great gifts. The following are middle grade books published in 2025.
In Sole Survivor, Norman Ollestad tells the story of how as a sixth-grader he survived a deadly mountainside plane crash during a snowstorm.
This Way to Happy, by Alison Green Myers, explores loss, friendship and family dynamics against the backdrop of a family-owned amusement park.
A middle-schooler writes herself a fake love letter in hopes of fitting in with new friends in Dear Jackie, a graphic novel by Jessixa Bagley and Aaron Bagley.
Three generations of Black girls connected across time and space through a wormhole in their school locker in Candace, the Universe, and Everything, by Sherri L. Smith.
An 11-year-old ends up attending sixth grade at a college after his dad accepts a job as a professor in Schooled, a middle-grade novel by Jamie Sumner.
A girl who feels like her life is spiraling takes up dumpster diving and learns a few things along the way in Dive, by John David Anderson.
A boy and his cousins awaken a monster on the island of Puerto Rico in The Island of Forgotten Gods, by Victor Piñeiro.