Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Elementary School Stories
Booked
Alexander, Kwame, author.
Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles... More
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
Anderson, John David, 1975- author.
Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the r... More
Posted
Anderson, John David, 1975- author.
In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right wo... More
The Worst Class Trip Ever
Barry, Dave, author.
When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington... More
Gertie's Leap to Greatness
Beasley, Kate, author.
"Gertie is a girl on a mission to be the best fifth grader ever in order to show her estranged ... More
The World According to Humphrey
Birney, Betty G.
Humphrey, pet hamster at Longfellow School, learns that he has an important role to play in helping ... More
The Pants Project
Clarke, Cat, author.
Technically, Olivia is not a girl, even though he was born as a girl. He's transgender. Liv kno... More
Extra Credit
Clements, Andrew, 1949-
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, a... More
Reel Life Starring Us
Greenwald, Lisa.
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially whe... More
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Greenwald, Tom. 1962-
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes ... More
The Fourteenth Goldfish
Holm, Jennifer L., author.
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turne... More
The Great Greene Heist
Johnson, Varian, author.
Jackson Greene has a reputation as a prankster at Maplewood Middle School, but after the last disast... More
Unidentified Suburban Object
Jung, Mike, author.
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspect... More
Ungifted / Gordon Korman.
Korman, Gordon.
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Di... More
All the Answers
Messner, Kate.
Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a mat... More
The Best Man
Peck, Richard, 1934- author.
"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, a... More
Fuzzy Mud
Sachar, Louis, 1954- author.
"Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud ... More
Dream on, Amber
Shevah, Emma, author.
Amber's Japanese father left when she was little, and her sister Bella was just a baby, so now ... More
The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
Sonnenblick, Jordan, author.
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father becaus... More
Goodbye Stranger
Stead, Rebecca, author.
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best frie... More
Murder is Bad Manners
Stevens, Robin, 1988- author.
At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells struggl... More
Save Me a Seat
Weeks, Sarah, author.
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe... More
Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom
Vivat, Booki, author, illustrator.
Nervous about middle school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what th... More
The Mcventures of Me, Morgan McFactoid : Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Waxman, Mark S.
Thirteen-year old, fact-spouting Morgan McCracken finds himself on the run with his girl crush from ... More