Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: Intermediate Fiction

Connor, Leslie, author.

Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. "Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mo...

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"-...

Alexander, Kwame.

Also available on RB Digital and Overdrive. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jord...

Sonnenblick, Jordan.

Also available on Overdrive. When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-...

Sachar, Louis, 1954- author.

Also available on Overdrive. "Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and di...

Reynolds, Jason, author.

Also available on Overdrive. Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school'...

Lord, Cynthia, author.

Also available on Hoopla, RB Digital, and Overdrive. When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve...

Lupica, Mike.

Also available on Overdrive. Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services a...

Harrold, A. F., 1975- author.

Rudger, an imaginary playmate, must find his friend Amanda before he fades away to nothing, while el...

Selznick, Brian.

Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing...

Gantos, Jack.

Also available on Overdrive. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey...

Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-

Also available on Overdrive. Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the n...

Resau, Laura, author.

Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, ...

Peck, Richard, 1934-

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression...

Tanquary, Kathryn, author.

Also available on Hoopla. When thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto unintentionally invokes a death c...

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Also available on Hoopla, RB Digital, and Overdrive. In the summer of 1968, after traveling from...

Applegate, Katherine.

Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-...

Gardner, Sally.

"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch ...

Birdsall, Jeanne.

Also available on Overdrive. While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountai...

Law, Ingrid, 1970-

Also available on Overdrive. Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday...

Holczer, Tracy.

Also available on Overdrive. "After 12-year-old Grace's mother's sudden death, Gra...

Lloyd, Natalie.

Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a tow...

Korman, Gordon.

Also available on RB Digital and Overdrive. After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino con...

Appelt, Kathi, 1954-

Also available on Hoopla. Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-broth...

Jones, Kelly (Kelly Anne), 1976- author.

Also available on Overdrive. Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her...