An 11-year-old Black boy joins the fight for civil rights in Shelia P. Moses’ new middle-grade novel, We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963.
Browsing: middle grade
A student decides to take action after discovering his school book has been censored in Amy Sarig King’s Attack of the Black Rectangles.
A Black girl learns she’s a witch and that her inner-city magic school is in danger of closing in A Taste of Magic, by J. Elle.
A girl goes back to the basics in hopes of rekindling her love of horses in Ride On, a middle-grade graphic novel by Faith Erin Hicks.
A teen jumps 10 years into the future in a twist on 13 Going on 30 in 12 to 22: POV You Wake Up in the Future! By Jen Calonita.
Hummingbird, by Natalie Lloyd, follows a girl who won’t let her bone disease get in the way of accomplishing her dreams.
A girl comes face to face with Norse gods when she learns her puppy is going to bring the end of the world in Greg van Eekhout’s Fenris & Mott.
A town is turned upside down when a traveling doctor arrives with a cure-all tonic in Caroline Starr Rose’s new MG novel, Miraculous.
The Ultimate Food Atlas from National Geographic Kids is exactly the sort of book I’d hand to any kid who is curious about the world.
A girl sets out to discover the past after being exiled to her grandfather’s remote Ireland farm in Jessie Ann Foley’s Breda’s Island.