Middle grade is the sweet spot for books, and as the school year ends, it’s time to stock up on books for summer reading.
Browsing: ages 10 & up
Author Kevin Crossley-Holland and illustrator Chris Riddell transport readers through time to Camelot in Arthur, The Always King.
Learn all about the United States Postal Service in Who’s Got Mail? The History of Mail in America, by Linda Barrett Osborne.
A girl with OCD accidentally lands a leading role in the summer musical in Shannon in the Spotlight, a middle-grade novel by Kalena Miller.
An orphan finds herself mixed up in magic and mystery at the Chicago’s World Fair in Come See the Fair, by Gavriel Savit.
Former NASA astronaut Terry Virts answers kids’ biggest questions about space travel in The Astronaut’s Guide to Leaving the Planet.
Paper Daughters of Chinatown follows the rescue of immigrant women and girls in San Francisco in the late 1890s.
A young girl sets out on an epic journey as the plague sweeps across 14th century Europe in Wild Bird, by Diane Zahler.
Siblings set out to save their father and get caught between battling sorcerers in Children of the Black Glass, by Anthony Peckham.
A 13-year-old boy discovers his grandmother’s painful past in Katherine Marsh’s The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine.