Middle-Grade Fiction

(Reviews by Kelly Herold, Big A little a)

• Chris Abouzeid. Anatopsis
• Louise Arnold. Golden & Grey: An Unremarkable Boy and a Rather Remarkable Ghost
• Avi. Strange Happenings
• Julianna Baggott (N.E.Bode). The Nobodies
• Anjali Banerjee. Looking for Bapu (Review by Alice Herold)
• Annie Barrows (ill. Sophie Blacnell). Ivy and Bean (Review by Alice Herold)
• Jeanne Birdsall. The Penderwicks (Review by 10-year-old Anna)
• Frank Cottrell Boyce. Framed
• L. Brittney. Nathan Fox: Dangerous Times
• Susan Taylor Brown. Hugging the Rock
• Elizabeth Doyle Carey. The Callahan Cousins: Home Sweet Home
• Esmé Raji Codell. Vive la Paris
• Eoin Colfer. Half Moon Investigations
• Audrey Couloumbis. The Misadventures of Maude March
• Anna Dale. Dawn Undercover
• Helen Dunmore. Ingo
• Helen Dunmore. The Tide Knot
• Joshua Elder (ill. by Erich Owen). Mail Order Ninja (Graphic Novel)
• Christine Ford. Scout
• Cassandra Golds. Clair-de-Lune
• Judy Goldschmidt. The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez
• Adam Gopnik. The King in the Window
• Lisa Graff. The Thing About Georgie
• Nick Green. Cat Kin
• Sue Halpern. Introducing Sasha Abramowitz
• Frances Hardinge. Fly By Night
• Jennifer L. Holm (ill. Matthew Holm). Babymouse
• Jennifer L. Holm (ill. Matthew Holm). Babymouse: Beach Babe
• Jennifer L. Holm (ill. Matthew Holm). Babymouse: Heartbreaker
• Jennifer L. Holm (ill. Matthew Holm). Babymouse: Rock Star
• Jennifer L. Holm. Penny From Heaven
• Polly Horvath. The Vacation
• Emily Jenkins (ill. Paul O. Zelinsky). Toys Go Out
• Barbara Kerley. Greetings from Planet Earth
• Ellen Klages. The Green Glass Sea
• Derek Landy. Skulduggery Pleasant
• Lois Lowry. The Giver
• Mike Lupica. Heat
• Kerry Madden. Louisiana's Song
• Henning Mankell. A Bridge to the Stars
• Wendy Mass. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life (Review by Alice Herold)
• Jean-Claude Mourlevat (translated by Y. Maudet). The Pull of the Ocean (Reviewed by Alice Herold)
• Geraldine Mc Caughrean. Smile (reviewed by Alice Herold)
• Hilary Mc Kay. Caddy Ever After
• Hilary Mc Kay. Permanent Rose
• Patricia McKissack (ill. by Brian Pickney). The Dark Thirty
• Brian Meehl. Out of Patience
• Kai Meyer. The Water Mirror
• Kirsten Miller. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City
• Margaret Morgan. Wuffy the Wonder Dog
• R.K. Mortenson. Landon Snow and the Auctor's Riddle
• Linda Newbery. At the Firefly Gate
• Linda Sue Park. Project Mulberry
• Susan Patron. The Higher Power of Lucky.
• Ridley Pearson. The Kingdom Keepers
• Mitali Perkins. Rickshaw Girl
• Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief
• Rick Riordan. The Sea of Monsters
• Rick Riordan. The Titan's Curse
• J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (The Good)
• J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (The Bad: Spoilers)
• J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Questions)
• Marilyn Sachs. Lost in America
• Laura Amy Schlitz. A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
• Greg Leitich Smith. Tofu and T. Rex
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Magic Nation Thing
• Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, editors. Big Fat Little Lit
• Tonia Stangherlin. T-Bird and the Island of Lost Cats
• Jeff Stone. The Five Ancestors:Monkey
• Susan Straight. The Friskative Dog(Reviewed by Alice Herold)
• Kate Thomson. The New Policeman
• Cat Weatherill. Barkbelly (Reviewed by Alice Herold)
• Howard Whitehouse (ill. Bill Slavin). The Strictest School in the World
• Liz Wu (ill. Matt Phelan). Rosa Farm
• Lisa Yee. So Totally Emily Ebers (Review by 11-year-old Anna)
• Lisa Yee. Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
• Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple. Trollbridge: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale