The Secret of the Painted Statue by Angela D Moss is 'A Middle-Grade Baltimore Mystery Caper.' Morgan Draca wants her seventh grade to be the best ever, and her way of doing it is to make her Edgar Allan Poe assignment the best in the...

If you enjoyed reading Summer of L.U.C.K., you will enjoy this sequel, Ready or Not (Summer of L.U.C.K. Trilogy) by Laura Segal Stegman with illustrations by Victoria Marble. Justin Pennington is back along with his friends Darby McAllister and Naz Nezri at Camp Inch along...

Revenge is a dish served sweet in The Final Ingredient, written by Scott Charles. Tammy is a 12-year-old with a big dream to become a famous chef. She is desperate to impress her new classmates and be recognized like the popular girl group, The Circle...

Shine, My Amazing Girl centers on the lives of several girls at a school, as the author, Emma Meyer, outlines their difficulties and the way they meet each challenge. Caroline tries to find a new social group after her brother has a skateboarding accident. She...

Happy Horrible Halloween by Valerie Allen is a sweet book about a girl who comes home feeling extremely upset and horrified about something that happened at school. Aubree confides in her grandma about what happened. She tells her grandma that her teacher declared it a...

Jett Jamison and the Secret Storm by Kimberly Behre Kenna is the story of Jett, a traumatized sixth-grader who is tired of the noises inside and around her. She desperately seeks peace, but nothing seems to work out for this troubled girl. Her life takes...

Crabbit Chops! by J.M. McClatchie, with illustrations by Jade Lawley, tells the tale of Michelle, a crab who struggles to fit in and have some fun. No matter what she does, she stands out, much to her humiliation and the amusement of some seagulls observing...

In Midnight on Fireworks Island by Christopher N. Ciko, Joseph Johnson, known as Joey, was arrested for vandalism, banned from public school, and sentenced to the Rockweiler Academy of Correction. It is a correctional facility for kids too young to be in the main prison...

Middle School Pandemonium by Pamela Riley is a middle-grade story that follows the journey of Casey Murphy, an eleven-year-old Floridan boy. Things begin to go wrong for him in 2020 with a canceled trip to Brazil, but little does he know at this point that...

The Eerie Brothers and The Witches of Autumn is a supernatural story for preteens by Sheldon Higdon. Twelve-year-old twin brothers, Horace and Edgar Eerie, are grieving their mother’s death. When weird things happen to them during detention, they discover they are witches with unusual abilities....