Mech: Heart and Soul is a middle-grade book by Ken Deeprose. Orin is a young teenager who is intelligent enough to work in a tech-savvy department in Cambria, the Depot. The Mechs, large robots that have artificial intelligence, have been developed to defend the Cambrians...

Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained: Volume 2 by Patricia Miller will provide you with spooky elements, bizarre mysteries, and a touch of romance. The book consists of four novellas. In The Spiral Staircase, a mother and daughter seek to explain a mystifying dream that haunts...

Mansa’s Little Reminders by A. D. Williams and Kendal Fordham and illustrated by Taylor Bou is the story of Mark, a child with a big imagination who daydreamed a lot. While some people found this fascinating, others were irritated by his penchant for zoning out....

Message from Hermes by C.B. Liverpool tells the enchanting story of twelve-year-old Vanessa. As she is on her way home, a shiny, bronze helmet with wings falls from the sky. The helmet glows and emits soft music. Vanessa's friend Jen tells her that a man...

When Nestor’s best popular friend got sick and had to be absent from school for several days, Nestor’s social status improved immensely. For once he was the popular kid and not bound to the negative reputation he had been cultivating since third grade. Things were...

Mystery, Myth, and Mayhem by Ben Woodard is a captivating collection of short stories for middle graders. In this book, adventure, ghosts, time travel, friendships, human-animal communication, and other thrilling features converge to create gripping stories. In the third story, The Ghostly Math Teacher, Harry...

The Mega Awesome Notebook by Kevin Minor is an awesome graphic novel about an equally awesome graphic novel. It tells the story of a teenage cartoonist whose drawings come to life through a radioactive cloud of awesomeness after he accidentally microwaves his notebook at breakfast....

In Monster Boy: Lair of the Grelgoroth by Ruth Fox, Zach Morgenstern is the only child of his loving parents. He hangs out with his best friend, Ryder, and wants to be noticed by Ida Wentworth, a pretty classmate. He is not particularly good at...

Megan's First Crush: Megan's World, Book 6 is an animal-companion novel for children and preteens written by Pamela Foland. Megan was excited to be going back to school. She would be in eighth grade, the last year before high school, and she was especially looking...

Who knew that birds sat on top of the genealogical tree of life? They reign in Mrs. PJ Wigglesworth: The Dancing Spy, a children’s adventure by M.W. Dutton. Penelope Wigglesworth is a shy, clumsy Atlantic Puffin who yearns to be a dancer. After accepting an...