Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: Middle School Recommended Reads
Artemis Fowl
Colfer, Eoin.
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and dem... More
Turn It Up!
Calonita, Jen, author.
The Nightingales are in a serious funk. Bradley Academy's all-girl a cappella group used to be... More
The Crossover
Alexander, Kwame.
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the ... More
Making Bombs for Hitler
Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk, author.
In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sist... More
The Prisoner of Cell 25
Evans, Richard Paul.
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid... More
Airborn
Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaper... More
The Lightning Thief
Venditti, Robert, adaptor.
After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old P... More
The False Prince
Nielsen, Jennifer A.
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be se... More
Apple in the Middle
Quigley, Dawn, author.
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racia... More
American Born Chinese
Yang, Gene Luen.
Story 1: "All Jin Wing wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he sud... More
House Arrest
Holt, K. A., author.
Young Timothy is sentenced to house arrest after impulsively stealing a wallet, and he is forced to... More
The Screaming Staircase
Stroud, Jonathan, author.
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood and Co. step in ... For more than fifty years... More
The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
Yee, F. C., author.
Sixteen-year-old Genie's focus on getting into a top-tier college is destroyed when an enigmat... More
Piecing Me Together
Watson, Renée, author.
Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mo... More
Scythe
Shusterman, Neal.
In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned... More
Out of My Mind
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy... More
Front Desk
Yang, Kelly, author.
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents... More
New Kid
Craft, Jerry, author, illustrator.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of... More
The Maze Runner
Dashner, James, 1972-
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work w... More
Ghost
Reynolds, Jason, author.
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school ... More
Leviathan
Westerfeld, Scott.
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Pow... More
Goodbye Stranger
Stead, Rebecca, author.
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best fri... More
Death Cloud
Lane, Andrew. 1963-
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "u... More
I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
Carter, Ally, author.
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is shelter... More
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous
Bragg, Georgia.
A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding ... More
Lincoln's Grave Robbers
Sheinkin, Steve.
Describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of ... More
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Alifirenka, Caitlin, author.
It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere... More
Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
Sheinkin, Steve, author.
The 1929 Air Derby was the first women's air race across the U.S. Meet the trailblazers: Ameli... More
42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
Rappaport, Doreen, author.
An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier ... More