Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. Here are middle grade books published in 2021.
Browsing: Middle Grade
Return to the world of the Ranger’s Apprentice in the fifth installment of John Flanagan’s The Royal Ranger series, Escape from Falaise.
Genzaburo Yoshino’s How Do You Live? follows a teenage boy as he navigates friendship and the loss of his father.
The following are just some of the middle-grade books that came out recently that I was unable to review, but are worth checking out.
A lonely doll helps a girl adjust to family changes in Book Buddies: Ivy Lost and Found, by Cynthia Lord and Stephanie Graegin.
A boy must save his family business and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver in The Secret of the Magic Pearl.
A young Jane Austen sets out to uncover a diamond thief in the mystery Jane Austen Investigates: The Burglar’s Ball, by Julia Golding.
A girl who struggles with reading must repeat the fifth grade in Kate McGovern’s debut middle-grade novel, Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen.
A young British spy finds herself in the heart of the Nazi government in Kathryn Lasky’s new upper middle-grade novel, Faceless.
Jennifer A. Nielsen returns to the kingdom of Carthya in the fifth and final book in her Ascendance series, The Shattered Castle.