30 Books for Middle Schoolers and Tweens
Want to give your child the best gift possible? Give them a book! It’s hard enough finding presents for kids these days, so why not get one they’ll cherish from start read-through right up until adulthood. Here are some of our favorite new and classic middle school novels that can be enjoyed by both children aged 10 - 14 years old as well adults.
- Anne of Green Gables, Author: L.M. Montgomery
- Bridge to Terabithia, Author: Katherine Paterson
- El Deafo, Author: Cece Bell
- Out of My Mind, Author: Sharon M. Draper
- The War that Saved My Life, Author: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Author: John Boyne
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Author: Wilson Rawls
- A Wrinkle in Time, Author: Madeleine L’Engle
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Author: Sherman Alexie
- Esperanza Rising, Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Wonder, Author: R.J. Palacio
- The Giver, Author: Lois Lowry
- Counting by 7s, Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Wishtree, Author: Katherine Applegate
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Author: Eleanor Coerr
- Brown Girl Dreaming, Author: Jacqueline Woodson
- Tuck Everlasting, Author: Natalie Babbitt
- Little Women, Author: Louisa May Alcott
- The Secret Garden, Author: Louisa May Alcott
- The Thing About Jellyfish, Author: Ali Benjamin
- The Hundred Dresses, Author: Eleanor Estes
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Author: E.L. Konigsburg
- Fish in a Tree, Author: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The One and Only Ivan, Author: Katherine Applegate
- The House on Mango Street, Author: Sandra Cisneros
- George, Author: Alex Gin0
- The Birchbark House, Author: Louise Erdrich
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Author: Betty Smith
- The Illustrated Harry Potter Books, Author: J.K. Rowling
- Wolf Hollow, Author: Lauren Wolk