Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Intermediate Fiction
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
Connor, Leslie, author.
Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. "Eleven-year-old Perry was born and raised by his mo...
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)
"A biracial girl finally gets the chance to meet the African American side of her family"-...
The Crossover
Alexander, Kwame.
Also available on RB Digital and Overdrive. Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jord...
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie
Sonnenblick, Jordan.
Also available on Overdrive. When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-...
Fuzzy Mud
Sachar, Louis, 1954- author.
Also available on Overdrive. "Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and di...
Ghost
Reynolds, Jason, author.
Also available on Overdrive. Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school'...
A Handful of Stars
Lord, Cynthia, author.
Also available on Hoopla, RB Digital, and Overdrive. When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve...
Heat
Lupica, Mike.
Also available on Overdrive. Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services a...
The Imaginary
Harrold, A. F., 1975- author.
Rudger, an imaginary playmate, must find his friend Amanda before he fades away to nothing, while el...
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Selznick, Brian.
Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing...
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Gantos, Jack.
Also available on Overdrive. To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey...
The Lemonade War
Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-
Also available on Overdrive. Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the n...
The Lightning Queen
Resau, Laura, author.
Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, ...
A Long Way From Chicago : a Novel in Stories
Peck, Richard, 1934-
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression...
The Night Parade
Tanquary, Kathryn, author.
Also available on Hoopla. When thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto unintentionally invokes a death c...
One Crazy Summer
Williams-Garcia, Rita.
Also available on Hoopla, RB Digital, and Overdrive. In the summer of 1968, after traveling from...
The One and Only Ivan
Applegate, Katherine.
Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-...
Operation Bunny
Gardner, Sally.
"When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, it is up to her to battle a fairy-snatching witch ...
The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy
Birdsall, Jeanne.
Also available on Overdrive. While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountai...
Savvy
Law, Ingrid, 1970-
Also available on Overdrive. Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday...
The Secret Hum of a Daisy
Holczer, Tracy.
Also available on Overdrive. "After 12-year-old Grace's mother's sudden death, Gra...
A Snicker of Magic
Lloyd, Natalie.
Also available on Hoopla and Overdrive. The Pickles are new to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee, a tow...
Swindle
Korman, Gordon.
Also available on RB Digital and Overdrive. After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino con...
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
Also available on Hoopla. Twelve-year-old Chap Brayburn, ancient Sugar Man, and his raccoon-broth...
Unusual Chickens For The Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Jones, Kelly (Kelly Anne), 1976- author.
Also available on Overdrive. Through a series of letters, Sophie Brown, age twelve, tells of her...