Tag: middle grade

67 books with this tag.

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Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech · 1994

Sal rides west with her grandparents telling Phoebe's story while facing her own mother's absence in Idaho.

2,554-word summary · 11 min read

The Serpent's Shadow

Rick Riordan · 2012

Carter and Sadie Kane have three days to bind Apophis by his shadow before the serpent rises and unmakes the world.

2,941-word summary · 13 min read

Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper · 2010

Eleven-year-old Melody Brooks has cerebral palsy and cannot speak, but she remembers everything and fights to be heard in fifth grade.

2,298-word summary · 10 min read

Fablehaven

Brandon Mull · 2006

Kendra and Seth spend the summer with their grandfather and learn his woods hide Fablehaven, a preserve for fairies, satyrs and darker things.

2,949-word summary · 13 min read

The Throne of Fire

Rick Riordan · 2011

Carter and Sadie Kane have five days to wake the sun god Ra before the serpent Apophis breaks free and eats the world.

2,867-word summary · 13 min read

Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 2010

Raina Telgemeier retells her years of dental work and middle school friendship shifts in this 2010 graphic memoir.

2,969-word summary · 13 min read

The Red Pyramid

Rick Riordan · 2010

Siblings Carter and Sadie Kane wake the Egyptian gods and must stop Set from destroying the world.

2,682-word summary · 12 min read

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman · 2008

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.

2,786-word summary · 12 min read

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry · 1989

Ten year old Annemarie helps her Jewish best friend escape occupied Copenhagen.

2,032-word summary · 9 min read

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer · 2001

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…

2,692-word summary · 12 min read

The Titan's Curse

Rick Riordan · 2007

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…

2,229-word summary · 10 min read

The Sea of Monsters

Rick Riordan · 2006

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.

2,056-word summary · 9 min read

The Last Olympian

Rick Riordan · 2009

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…

2,564-word summary · 11 min read

Holes

Louis Sachar · 1998

Stanley Yelnats digs holes at Camp Green Lake while a broken promise, a buried outlaw, and a boy named Zero close in around him.

2,456-word summary · 11 min read