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Jennifer Holm

The Third Mushroom

Ellie’s grandpa Melvin is a world-renowned scientist… in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy. Grandpa may not exactly fit in at middle school, but he certainly keeps things interesting. When he and Ellie team up for the county science fair, no one realizes just how groundbreaking their experiment will be. The formula for eternal youth may be within their reach!
Jeff Kinney

The Third Wheel

A lot can happen when friends go to a Valentine’s Day dance together — and it’s not always expected! Greg’s diary entries and line drawings again present the angst of middle school and familiar problems of growing up.
Laurence Yep

The Tiger's Apprentice: Book One

Tom is his Chinese grandmother’s somewhat reluctant apprentice in magical arts, but after she dies while defending a mysterious coral rose from evil foes, the eighth grader finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous world where Chinese myth is a reality.
The Tiger at Midnight
Swati Teerdhala

The Tiger at Midnight

Genre:
Fantasy, Fiction
Age Level:
YA

Epic heart-pounding fantasy set in an alternate ancient India where a rebel assassin and a reluctant soldier find forbidden love as they battle to save their lands.

Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse
Rick Riordan

The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians)

Genre:
Fantasy, Fiction
Age Level:
Middle Grade

Kronos is at again and Olympus is threatened by an ancient monster. Percy and his friends must find the kidnapped Artemis — the only god who could hunt down the monster.

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez
Adrianna Cuevas

The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez

Genre:
Fairy Tales, Folktales and Myths, Fantasy
Age Level:
Middle Grade

All Nestor Lopez wants is to live in one place for more than a few months and have dinner with his dad. He definitely doesn’t want anyone to find out his deepest secret: that he can talk to animals. But when the animals in his new town start disappearing, Nestor’s grandmother becomes the prime suspect after she is spotted in the woods where they were last seen. As Nestor investigates the source of the disappearances, he learns that they are being seized by a tule vieja—a witch who can absorb an animal’s powers by biting it during a solar eclipse. And the next eclipse is just around the corner… Now it’s up to Nestor’s extraordinary ability and his new friends to catch the tule vieja—and save a place he might just call home. 

 

Claudia Mills

The Totally Made-Up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish

Age Level:
Middle Grade
As 5th grade Amanda is going through the stress of her parents’ separation, she’s given an interesting school assignment: to write a diary as if she were a Civil War character. Amanda’s personal story intertwines with the historical journal of “Polly,” providing an interesting opportunity to compare and contrast.
Avi

The Traitors' Gate

When his father is suspected of espionage, John Huffam tries to support his family any way he can. 14-year-old John leaves school to earn money, and tries to find time to unravel the mystery surrounding his father.