Favorite MG Books

Here’s a list of my favorite books for middle-grade readers. Please check back occasionally for new additions. Feel free to Contact Me to send me your book recommendations.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Because of Winn-Dixie by Katie DiCamillo

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

Dash by Kirby Larson

Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Find Serendipity by Angelica Banks

A Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. (Terry) Nelson

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson

Holes by Louis Sachar

How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O’Connor

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai and Patricia McCormick

Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhai Lai 

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger

The Kite Flyers by Linda Sue Park

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers Edition) by Misty Copeland

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Love, Aubrey by Suzanne LaFleur

Matilda by Roald Dahl

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

A Night Divided by Jennifer A Neilsen

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

The One and Only Ivan by Katharine Applegate

One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

Out of My Mind by Susan M Draper

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Refugee by Alan Gratz

Restart by Gordon Korman

Savvy by Ingrid Law

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Stella by Starlight by Susan M Draper

The Tale of Despereaux  by Kate DiCamillo

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning by Danette Haworth

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Words on Fire by Jennifer A Nielsen

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle