Middle Grade Books Read

As much as I love spending my time reading YA and adult murder mysteries, I'm teaching fourth grade now instead of middle school, and it's time to read and reread middle grade literature. Here's my keepin' track list:

Allen, Kate - The Line Tender, 2019 (4.5)

Alston, B. B. - Amari and the Night Brothers, 2021 (4)
Anderson, John David - Posted , 2017 (4.5)
Anderson, Laurie Halse - Chains, 2008 (or is it YA?) (4)
Applegate, Katherine - Home of the Brave, 2007 (4)
Avi - Crispin, Cross of Lead, 2002 (1)
Barnhill, Kelly - The Mostly True Story of Jack, 2011 (2)
Baskin, Nora Raleigh - Anything But Typical, 2009 (5)
Bauer, Joan - Stand Tall, 2001 (3)
Blackford, Cheryl - Lizzie and the Lost Baby, 2016 (1)
Blakemore, Megan Frazer - The Water Castle , 2013 (3.5)
Block, Francesca Lia - House of Dolls, 2010 (4)

Bow, Erin - Simon Sort of Says, 2023 (5)

Bowling, Dusti - Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus, 2017 (5)
Branford, Anna - Violet Mackerel's Brilliant Plot, 2010/2012 (5) (EARLY middle rdrs.)
Brockmeier, Kevin - City of Names, 2002 (3)
Bunker, Lisa - Zenobia July, 2019 (4)
Calhoun, Dia - After the River the Sun, 2013 (4)
Carmichael, Clay - Wild Things, 2009 (5)
Carter, Caela - My Life With the Liars 2016 (5)
Cheng, Andrea - The Year of the Book, 2012 (4)
..... Where Do You Stay? (4)

Choldenko, Gennifer

.....The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman, 2024 (4)

Clark, Cat - The Pants Project, 2017 (4.5)
Clements, Andrew -  The Map Trap, 2014 (4)
.....No Talking, 2007 (4)
.....The Jacket, 2002 (4)
Clinton, Cathryn - A Stone in My Hand, 2002
Colfer, Chris - The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell  , 2012 (3)
Condie, Allie - Summerlost , 2016 (4.5)
Connor, Leslie - Waiting for Normal, 2008 (5)
.....The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, 2018 (4)
Couloumbis, Audrey - Say Yes, 2002 (4)
Creech, Sharon - Hate That Cat, 2008, (5) Love That Dog, 2001 (5)
Curtis, Christopher Paul - Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, 1995 (4.5)
Day, Karen - A Million Miles from Boston, 2011 (4)
Deutsch, Barry - Hereville, 2010 (5)
Dionne, Erin - The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, 2010 (3.5)
diCamillo, Kate - Louisiana's Way Home, 2018 (5)

.....Raymie Nightingale, 2016 (4.5)
.....The Magician's Elephant, 2009 DNF (1)
Dowell, Frances O'Roark - Ten Miles Past Normal (2011) 4
.....Where I'd Like to Be, 2003 (4.5)
Draper, Sharon M. - Out of My Mind, 2010 (5)
Du Prau, Jeanne - City of Ember, 2003 (3.5)
Ellis, Deborah - No Ordinary Day, 2011 (4) READ CAUTION in review
.....Parvana's Journey, 2002
.....The Breadwinner, 2000
Erskine, Kathryn - Mockingbird, 2010 (5)
Fagan, Cary - The Big Swim, 2010 (2)

Faruqi, Reem - Unsettled, 2021 (5)

Fipps, Lisa - Starfish, 2021 (5) Verse
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn - The Year the Swallows Came Early, 2009 (5)
Fleischman, Sid - The Dream Stealer, 2009 (3)
Fletcher, Susan - Shadow Spinner, 1999

Freeman, Megan E . Alone, 2021 (5)
Furlong, Monica - Robin's Country, 1995 (3)
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Gingersnap, 2013 (3)
.....Pictures of Hollis Woods, 2002 (5)
Gino, Alex - GEORGE, 2015 (4)
Grabenstein, Chris - Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library, 2013 (1.5)
Graff, Keir - The Matchstick Castle, 2017 (2)

Gratz - Ground Zero, 2021 (5)
Green, Shari - Macy McMillan and the Rainbow Goddess, 2017 (4.5)
Gregory, Kristiana - Bronte's Book Club, 2008 (3.5)
Haydu, Corey Ann - Eventown, 2019 (3)
Hermes, Patricia - Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth's Jamestown Colonial Diary #1, 2000
Hesse, Karen - Brooklyn Bridge, 2008 (5)
Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot, 2000 (3)

Higuera, Donna Barba, - The Last Cuentista, 2021 (4)
Hirsch, Jeff - Sovereign, 2019 (1)
Holmes, Barbara Ware, Following Fake Man, 2001
Holmes, Sara Lewis - Operation Yes, 2009 DNF
Holt, K. A. - House Arrest, 2015 (5)
Holt, Kimberly Willis - Piper Reed, Navy Brat, (4) (5)
..........Blooming at the Texas Sunrise Motel
Horvath, Polly - Everything on a Waffle (4)
House, Silas & Neela Vaswani - Same Sun Here, 2011 (4)
Hurwitz, Michele Weber - The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days, 2014 (4)
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - Pay It Forward, 2014 (2)
Jacobson, Jennifer Richard - Small as an Elephant, 2011 (3)
..........Winnie Dancing on Her Own, 2001 (4)

King, A. S. - Attack of the Black Rectangles, 2022 (5)
Klise, Kate - Dying to Meet You (43 Old Cemetery Road #1) 2009 (4)
Kadahata, Cynthia - Half a World Away, 2014 (2.5)
Khan, Hena - Amina's Voice , 2017 (3)
Korman, Gordon - Schooled, 2007 (4)

....................Unplugged, 2021 (5)
LaFleur, Suzanne - Listening for Lucca, 2013 (3)

La Marche, Pat - Priscilla, Princess of the Park, 2020 (4)

LaRocca, Rajani - Red, White, and Whole, 2021 (5) VERSE
Latham, Irene - Leaving Gee's Bend, 2010 (4)
Law, Ingrid - Savvy, 2009 (3.5)
Levine, Gail Carson - Dave at Night, 1999

Levithan, David - The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S.
Lin, Grace - The Year of the Dog, 2006 (4)
Lord, Cynthia - Touch Blue, 2010 (4.5)
......Half a Chance (2014 (4)
Lopez, Diana - Confetti Girl, 2009 (4)
Lowry, Lois - Gooney Bird Greene, 2002 (4)
.....The Gooney Bird Collection, 2009 (4)
Lubar, David - Punished! 2006 (4)
MacLachlan, Patricia - Word After Word After Word, 2010 (4)
.....Waiting for the Magic, 2011 (5)
.....The Poet's Dog (4)
Marks, Janae - From the Desk of Zoe Washington (4)
Martin, Ann M. - A Corner of the Universe, 2002 (3.5)
Mass, Wendy - 11 Birthdays, 2009 (4)
.....Every Soul a Star, 2008 (5)
.....Space Taxi: Archie Takes Flight (1) really too young for middle grade titles, but not sure where else it would belong?
McMann, Lisa - The Unwanteds, 2011 (3.5)
Mead, Alice, Year of No Rain, 2003 (4.5)
.....Girl of Kosovo, 2001
Mills, Claudia - How Oliver Olson Changed the World, 2009 (5)
Moss, Marissa - Amelia Hits the Road, 1997
Nickerson, Sarah - How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, 2002 (3.5)
Orlev, Uri - Song of the Whales, 2010 (1)
Park, Linda Sue - A Long Walk to Water, 2010 (4.5)
Partridge, Elizabeth - Dogtag Summer, 2011 (4.5)
Paterson, Katherine - Day of the Pelican, 2009 (3)
.....The Same Stuff as Stars, 2002 (3)
Patt, Beverly - Best Friends Forever, 2010 (5)
Paulsen, Gary - Lawn Boy, 2007 (4.5)
......Amazing Life of Birds, 2006 (3.5)
Pennypacker, Sara - Summer of the Gypsy Moths, 2012 (5)
Pinkney, Andrea Davis - Dear America: With the Might of Angels, The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley Virginia, 1954, 2011 (5)
Polacio, P. J. - Wonder , 2012 (5)
Potter, Ellen - Piper Green and the Fairy Tree #1, 2015 (5) (Beginning Chapter book
Ray, Delia - Here Lies Linc, 2011 (4)
Rhoads, Dorothy - The Corn Grows Ripe, 1956 (3.5+)
Rhodes, Jewell Parker - Ninth Ward, 2010 (3)
....................................Towers Falling, 2016 (4.5) 9/11
Riordan, Rick - The 39 Clues Book 1- Maze of Bones, 2008 (2)
Rollins, James - Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow, 2009 (4)
Rose, Caroline Starr - May B. a Novel, 2012 (3/Liked it)
Ryan, Pam Munoz - Esperanza Rising (4)
Salerni, Dianne K. - The Eighth Day, (4)
Schlitz, Laura Amy - The Night Fairy, 2010 (4)
..........Princess Cora and the Crocodile, 2017 (4)
Selznick, Brian - Wonderstruck, 2011 (3-Liked it)
Shovan, Laura - The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary (4) VERSE
Sloan, Holly Greenberg - Counting by 7s, 2013 (5)
.....................To Night Owl From Dogfish (with Meg Wolitzer) 2019 (5)
Smith, Alexander McCall - Akimbo and the Crocodile Man, 1993 (2.5)
Spinelli, Jerry - The Warden's Daughter, 2017 (4)
..........Eggs, 2007 (3.5/5)
..........Loser, 2002 (4.5)
..........Stargirl, 2000 (4)
Springer, Nancy - The Case of the Missing Marquess, 2006 (4)
Staples, Suzanne Fisher - Under the Persimmon Tree, 2005 (4)
Stead, Rebecca - When You Reach Me, 2009 (4)
Stolz, Joelle - The Shadows of Ghadames, 1999/2004 (5)
Sturm, James - Satchel Paige, 2007 (4)
Timberlake, Amy - One Came Home, 2013 (2)
Tolan, Stephanie S. - Surviving the Applewhites, 2002 (5)
Tucker, Laura - All the Greys on Greene Street, 2019 (4.5)
Warga, Jasmine - Other Words for Home, 2019 (3)
Waugh, Sylvia - Space Race, 2000

Wendell, Mindy Nichols - Light and Air, 2024 (4)
Whelan, Gloria - Listening for Lions, 2005 (4)
..........Small Acts of Amazing Courage, 2011 (3.5)
..........Angel on the Square, 2001 (3.5/4)
White, Ruth - You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does), 2011 (4)
..........A Month of Sundays, 2011 (4+)
Williams-Garcia - One Crazy Summer, 2010 (3.5)
Wolitzer, Meg - To Night Owl From Dogfish (With Holly Goldberg Sloan) 2019 (5)
Wolk, Lauren - Wolf Hollow , 2016 (5)
Woodson, Jacqueline - Harbor Me, 2018 (3)
Yang, Kelly - Front Desk, 2018 (4.5)
Yohalem, Eve - Escape Under the Forever Sky, 2009 (4.5)
Zimmer, Tracie Vaughn - Reaching for Sun, 2007 (4)