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... More

Woods, Brenda (Brenda A.)

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

Alexander, Kwame.

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

Sonnenblick, Jordan.

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

Sachar, Louis, 1954- author.

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

Reynolds, Jason, author.

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

Lord, Cynthia, author.

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

Lupica, Mike.

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

Harrold, A. F., 1975- author.

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

Selznick, Brian.

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

Gantos, Jack.

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

Davies, Jacqueline, 1962-

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

Resau, Laura, author.

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

Peck, Richard, 1934-

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

Tanquary, Kathryn, author.

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

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

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

Applegate, Katherine.

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

Gardner, Sally.

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

Birdsall, Jeanne.

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

Law, Ingrid, 1970-

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

Holczer, Tracy.

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

Lloyd, Natalie.

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

Korman, Gordon.

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

Appelt, Kathi, 1954-

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

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

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