Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Under the London Sky by Anna Woltz

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  Imagine your city being bombed for months and spending every night huddled in a crowded subway station, sleeping among strangers and not k...
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

One Word, Six Letters by Adib Khorram

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  One homophobic slur is what it takes to change the lives of two ninth grade boys. One of the boys is Dayton who takes a dare and shouts a ...
Sunday, June 07, 2026

Beasts by Ingvild Bjerkeland

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  It is so hard to find horror books for middle schoolers and young teens. This one really grabs you with its short chapters and chilling pl...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King by Harry Travaldwyn

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  If you like witty banter or musical theatre or or a sweet, awkward rom com, this is the book for you. Patrick is a 16-year-old British boy...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

A Scar Like a River by Lisa Graff

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  Fallon has a long scar on her face and a deep secret that she has kept since she was very young. She's now 13 years old and enjoying h...

This Could All Go Bad by Spencer Hall

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  This is a rare find--a book with 14-year-old boy protagonists that is FUNNY. Jensen and his best friends Maleek and Cooper are graduating ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Thanks A Lot, Universe by Chad Lucas

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  Brian has a lot of family problems, including his father abandoning him and his younger brother at the same time his mother attempts suici...

Candace, the Universe, and Everything by Sherri L. Smith

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  I love that this book is about an 8th grade girl as it is hard to find books about 14 year olds in today's publishing environment. I a...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The Moon without Stars by Chanel Miller

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  Luna begins this book as a solidly bookish seventh grader who spends most of her time with her best friend Scott. When circumstances lead ...

Five Survive by Holly Jackson

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  Six older teenagers in an RV on a long road trip get stranded in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere. There's no internet...

Gaslit by Megan Davidhizar

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Ella volunteers to babysit for her nephew on New Year's Eve. When she arrives at her aunt's house she finds the door open and bodies...

King of Nothing by Nathanael Lesser

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  Anton is a tough kid at his school, part of a group of boys that intimidates both students and teachers. His father being in prison has ea...
Monday, March 09, 2026

Devious Prey by Scott Reintgen

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  An airship crash lands on an unknown island. A teenage smuggler brings a dragoness aboard the ship, and when it escapes on the island it s...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

Mountain of Fire by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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  Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 in spectacular fashion. And even though people had plenty of warning that something big was happening, sc...

Whale Eyes by James Robinson

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  This memoir about seeing and being seen is like no other book for middle schoolers. James Robinson has strabismus, a condition often mis-l...