Popular authors bring the past to life through historical fiction. The following middle-grade books touch on D-Day, the rise of the Nazi regime and a Civil War Britain.
Browsing: ages 9 & up
The Chasing Vermeer series features mysteries, puzzles, adventure and works of art.
A summer visit to Martha’s Vineyard goes sideways when a popular teen is murdered in Blood in the Water, by Tiffany D. Jackson.
Curious Cases: True Crime for Kids is exactly the type of book that mystery fans will be drawn to.
Flunked, the first book in Jen Calonita’s best-selling Fairy Tale Reform School series, gets a enticing look with a new paperback edition from Sourcebooks Young Readers.
A boy is held accountable for his actions and finds a path to healing along the way in The Trouble with Heroes, by Kate Messner.
A young woman leaves behind the safety of her home in search of adventure in Afia in the Land of Wonders, a middle-grade novel by Mia Araujo.
A spoiled cousin could upend the lives of three undocumented siblings in Outsider Kids, in the sequel to Parachute Kids, by Betty C. Tang.
Two kids from different times become pen pals in Right Back at You, a middle-grade novel by Carolyn Mackler.
A Miami girl is forced to move in with her aunt in Wyoming following her mother’s death in The Trouble with Sunshine, by Yamile Saied Méndez.