https://pithybooks.com/tags/middle-grade/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “middle grade”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:10 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/the-red-pyramid/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-red-pyramid/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world. https://pithybooks.com/books/artemis-fowl/ https://pithybooks.com/books/artemis-fowl/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Twelve-year-old crime heir Artemis Fowl kidnaps fairy officer Holly Short for gold, triggering a siege at Fowl Manor with time-stops, trolls, and a shifting ransom. https://pithybooks.com/books/number-the-stars/ https://pithybooks.com/books/number-the-stars/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-graveyard-book/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-graveyard-book/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-mark-of-athena/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-mark-of-athena/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven demigods sail for Rome where Annabeth must follow the Mark to the Athena Parthenos alone. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-son-of-neptune/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-son-of-neptune/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Amnesiac Percy wakes at Camp Jupiter and quests to Alaska with Hazel and Frank to free Thanatos. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-battle-of-the-labyrinth/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-battle-of-the-labyrinth/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Percy and Annabeth enter the shifting Labyrinth with Rachel Dare to stop Luke and Kronos from invading Camp Half-Blood. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-olympian/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-last-olympian/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Percy Jackson turns sixteen as Kronos marches on Manhattan, forcing Camp Half-Blood into a final stand for Olympus beside Annabeth as the old prophecy demands his choice. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-sea-of-monsters/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-sea-of-monsters/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Percy returns for a second summer as Camp Half-Blood loses its borders, Tyson is claimed as his brother, and the Golden Fleece waits past the Sea of Monsters. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-titans-curse/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-titans-curse/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Percy joins a winter quest to save Annabeth and Artemis with Thalia, Grover, Bianca and Zoe, facing Atlas and Luke under a hard Oracle prophecy on Mount Othrys. Fully retold here. https://pithybooks.com/books/holes/ https://pithybooks.com/books/holes/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stanley Yelnats digs holes at Camp Green Lake while a broken promise, a buried outlaw, and a boy named Zero close in around him. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lightning-thief/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-lightning-thief/ Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief retold: Percy Jackson, Camp Half-Blood, the stolen bolt, and the road trip to the Underworld.