Grades 6–8, 2023–24

After her parents' death, Rose tries to find a home with various relatives, including her wealthy aunts, her eccentric uncle, and her many cousins.

As his family struggles financially, Jackson deals with hardship with the help of his imaginary friend, a giant cat named Crenshaw.

Maks, a newsboy living in New York City in the late 19th century, tries to prove his sister's innocence after she is accused of theft.

Twelve-year-old Tree tries to come to terms with his parents' divorce by spending time with his grandfather, a war veteran.

In this novel, a boy imprisoned in a concentration camp and the son of a Nazi commandant develop an unlikely friendship.

While trying to track down her missing mother, thirteen-year-old Salamanca entertains her grandparents with strange stories about a girl named Phoebe Winterbottom.

During the Great Depression, a ten-year-old boy hits the road in search of the father he has never known.

Ted and Kat watch their cousin Salim board the London Eye, a famous Ferris wheel. When the ride ends, Salim is nowhere to be found — but Ted and Kat are determined to solve the mystery.

In this memoir, poet Margarita Engle recounts her childhood in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War.

Ellie, an eleven-year-old girl from Texas, learns to stand up for herself and confront bullies who tease her about her weight.

In this sequel to My Side of the Mountain, Sam Gribley's sister Alice joins her brother in the Catskill Mountains. But when Alice disappears and Sam's beloved falcon is taken away, he must fight to get them back.

In this dystopian novel, famine and overpopulation has led to a strict Population Law that limits families to two children. Luke, an illegal third child, must spend his life in hiding — but when he meets Jen, another third child, he becomes involved in a dangerous plan to challenge the Population Law.

May Amelia Jackson grows up on the American frontier at the end of the 19th century.

In this first book of the Samurai Detective series set in 18th-century Japan, Konoike Seikei, a tea merchant’s son dreaming of becoming a noble warrior-poet, helps a judge solve the mystery of a missing jewel.

When almost-eight-year-old Georgie Burgess wins a rosebush from a Florida grocery store, he seeks to give it the tender-loving home that he has never known.

Growing up on Cape Cod, Delsie tries to weather stormy relationships with friends and family.

Iris is a 12-year-old girl who is deaf; when she learns about Blue 55, a whale that sings at a frequency other whales can't understand, she vows to find a way to communicate with him.

An apathetic teacher is assigned to a class of unruly misfits — with surprising results.

In this work of historical fiction, a young mapmaker recounts his adventures among the Spanish conquistadors exploring the Americas.

A Single Shard tells the story of a homeless orphan who helps a potter earn a royal commission in 12th-century Korea. Master these words that Linda Sue Park shaped into a Newbery Medal winner.

Rafe Khatchadorian and his friend Leonardo come up with a game in which they earn points for breaking middle school rules. But a school bully discovers their journal full of the game's details and threatens to turn them in.

In this first book of The Reckoners series, eighteen-year-old David Charleston looks for weaknesses in the supernaturally powerful Epics so that he can avenge the murder of his father and restore freedom to the city that used to be Chicago.

On a hike in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, thirteen-year-old Erin Rowe makes a new friend when they both get lost and must rely on each other to survive.

Willow Chance is an offbeat genius whose life is thrown off course when her adoptive parents die in a tragic accident.

When Melanie, April, and Marshall discover an abandoned yard, they think it's the perfect place to play games based on their shared love of ancient Egypt. But the children aren't prepared to deal with a creepy antiques dealer, mysterious oracles, and a shocking murder.

This collection of short stories, which draws on the author's own childhood, focuses on Latino and Latina children growing up in California.

With a name that translates into Stout Heart, fifteen-year-old Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the Polynesian island of Hikueru, is determined to conquer his fear of the sea.

Using trial manuscripts, archival materials, and interviews following President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Swanson details the wild twelve-day chase to capture John Wilkes Booth.

In this prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, a biracial young man tries to find his place in post-Civil War America.

After being kicked out of a series of schools, Jake is sent to a home school run by the unconventional Applewhite family.

In this prequel to The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet life until a group of dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf enlist him in their quest for a dragon's treasure.

In this first book of the mystery series, seventh-grader Samantha Jo Keyes looks through her binoculars and sees a burglary at the Heavenly Hotel.

Oyuna of the Kerait tribe recounts how she pursued her dream of racing across the Mongolian steppes as a youth despite being crippled by a horse.

Frannie navigates changing relationships with friends and family in this novel set in the early 1970s.