A chess prodigy struggles to tell his mom he wants to quit the game in All the Ways to Go, a middle-grade novel by Jessie Janowitz.
Browsing: ages 8 & up
A girl’s pesky little brother inspires her to fight climate change in Gracie Under Waves, by Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park.
A seventh-grade Syrian American boy navigates middle school in Kareem Between, a novel by Shifa Saltagi Safadi.
Two girls wonder if an unusual weather phenomenon has anything to do with the upheaval in their lives in The Witching Wind, by Natalie Lloyd.
Four kids and a grandfather set out to solve a decades-old mystery in The Sherlock Society, the first book in a new middle-grade series by James Ponti.
A girl discovers she’s not the only one at her new school who can see ghosts in The Secret Dead Club, by Karen Strong.
Orphan siblings continue to race around the world in search for family history in the 39 Clues: One False Note, by Gordon Korman and Hannah Templer.
A Vietnamese American girl travels through Vietnam in search of an ancient magical crossbow in The Crossbow of Destiny, by Brandon Hoang.
A Muslim teen as she joins an all-girls, hijab-wearing basketball team in We Are Big Time, a graphic novel by Hena Khan and Safiya Zerrougui.
Two kids try to survive in the aftermath of a tsunami in Wild Wave, the third book in Rodman Philbrick’s The Wild series.