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.
Browsing: Historical
An American gymnast experiences Nazi Germany firsthand during the 1936 Berlin Olympics in War Games, by Alan Gratz.
Follow three children through three different time periods as each sets out in search of refuge in Alan Gratz’s Refugee: The Graphic Novel.
Learn about the witch trials of 1692 in Did You Hear What Happened in Salem? by Katie Kennedy and Nick Thornborrow.
A sister and brother face one of the most dangerous storms in American history in Where Only Storms Grow, by Alyssa Colman.
A teen uncovers a family secret when she is evacuated to America at the start of World War II in The Blossoming Summer, by Anna Rose Johnson.
An orphan suddenly finds herself at an exclusive boarding school for young women in The Secrets of Lovelace Academy, by Marie Benedict and Courtney Sheinmel.
A girl struggles to survive amid a smallpox epidemic, the public’s fear of inoculation and the Revolutionary War in Rebellion 1776, by Laurie Halse Anderson.
The Six —Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts, by Loren Grush and Rebecca Stefoff, explores America’s first women in space.
Meet three women who followed their scientific dreams in Green Promises: Girls Who Loved the Earth, by Jeannine Atkins.