A girl learns that the real world is not as perfect as the stories she’s grown up with in Library Girl, a middle-grade novel by Polly Horvath.
Browsing: ages 9 & up
A girl earns her place — sort of — at Air Academy only to find nothing is quite as it seems in Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up, by Taylor Tyng.
A girl struggles to find the magic lost when a hurricane forces her away from her home in Murray Out of Water, by Taylor Tracy.
A 12-year-old tries to lift their dad’s spirits with a trip to his childhood home in Puzzleheart, a middle-grade novel by Jenn Reese.
A Jewish girl finds herself hiding in a French Catholic boarding school during WWII in The Night War, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
A girl’s goal to write a fantasy novel triggers writer’s block and anxiety in Unstuck, a new middle-grade book by Barbara Dee.
A girl struggles to keep her family together in Shark Teeth, a new middle-grade novel by Sherri Winston.
Gather together as a family and learn more about U.S. history, geography and culture with Brain Quest Smart Cards America and Brain Quest Smart Cards for the Card.
Each year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great gifts. These are middle-grade books published in and/or reviewed in 2023.
Learn how people throughout time explained what happens after death in An Atlas of Afterlives: Discover Underworlds, Otherworlds and Heavenly Realms, by Emily Hawkins and Manasawee Rojanaphan.