10 Exciting Middle Grade Fiction Novels
If your looking for some new reads to pull your kids away from their electronics this summer, take a look at some of these fun reads.
Cole Randolph was just trying to have a fun time with his friends on Halloween (and maybe get to know Jenna Hunt a little better). But when a spooky haunted house turns out to be a portal to something much creepier, Cole finds himself on an adventure on a whole different level.
After Cole sees his friends whisked away to some mysterious place underneath the haunted house, he dives in after them—and ends up in The Outskirts.
The Outskirts are made up of five kingdoms that lie between wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. It’s an in-between place. Some people are born there. Some find their way there from our world, or from other worlds.
And once you come to the Outskirts, it’s very hard to leave.
With the magic of the Outskirts starting to unravel, it’s up to Cole and an unusual girl named Mira to rescue his friends, set things right in the Outskirts, and hopefully find his way back home…before his existence is forgotten.
After Cole sees his friends whisked away to some mysterious place underneath the haunted house, he dives in after them—and ends up in The Outskirts.
The Outskirts are made up of five kingdoms that lie between wakefulness and dreaming, reality and imagination, life and death. It’s an in-between place. Some people are born there. Some find their way there from our world, or from other worlds.
And once you come to the Outskirts, it’s very hard to leave.
With the magic of the Outskirts starting to unravel, it’s up to Cole and an unusual girl named Mira to rescue his friends, set things right in the Outskirts, and hopefully find his way back home…before his existence is forgotten.
Sometimes zombies don't know they're dead until they look in the mirror!
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In the space of three days, Rogan loses his royal privilege, his country, and his mother.
Now knowing that his father, the King of Kanrine, orchestrated his mother’s execution, Rogan is left stranded in his mother’s homeland. Sickened by the idea of returning home to face his mother’s killers, Rogan lowers himself to washing and sweeping for a local healer to survive. He’s now a drudge, a mongrel, a nobody with airs. His one friend is Bryna, the poverty-stricken daughter of the city’s former baron, who has her own reasons for skirting the notice of the city’s occupying soldiers.
Before Rogan can decide his next move, the mysterious death of a soldier pulls him and Bryna into a web of politics, murder, and magic. The two of them must race to separate truth from lies as the authorities’ investigations quickly turn personal…and deadly.
Told from the alternating perspectives of a conqueror’s son and a conquered lord’s daughter, THE EMPIRE’S ORPHANS follows two twelve-year-olds in a country simmering with national, racial, and class tension.
What if everything you knew about your father was a lie?
Andromeda “Rommy” Cavendish doesn’t really have a home, unless you count the exclusive boarding school where she stays year round. With her mother dead and her father out to sea most of the time, Rommy counts down the days to her father’s two visits every year - on her birthday and Christmas.
Every year, she hopes this will be the summer her father takes her with him on his travels, but he always says she is too young and it is too dangerous.
But this summer is going to be different. Rommy’s going with him on his travels. He just doesn’t know it yet.
As the newest and youngest member of her school’s fencing team, danger is her new best friend. There’s no way her father can say no.
But he never shows up for his visit.
Worried that something awful has happened, Rommy dresses as a boy and sneaks out of her school, traveling through nineteenth century London only to find more questions than answers. To find her father she’ll have to travel to the magical island of Neverland where heroes are villains, and her father might be the biggest villain of them all.
If you like fairy tale twists, magical adventures and spunky heroines, you’ll love Hook’s Daughter: The Untold Tale of a Pirate Princess, first in the middle-grade fantasy adventure trilogy The Pirate Princess Chronicles.
Pick up Hook’s Daughter and start your adventure today!
When her father fails to return home from a business trip, Madison and her family set out to find him. But then? Her entire family vanishes. This sparks a shocking revelation from Madison’s godmother. Madison is one of the Chosen Ones, one of three young girls secreted inside the human realm at birth. They were born to fulfill a prophecy. The time has come. There are those who seek to destroy them so they can rule the realms. Only one question remains as they prepare for battle, a question posed by an ancient realm of trees... Would you sacrifice your life for those you love?
Saving Tir na nOg is a middle grade fantasy novel steeped in Irish mythology. "A dazzling read for all ages," 5 Stars -- Liz Konkel, Readers' Favorite
Wizards, Heroes, and shape-changing Amorphae have hidden in plain sight among ordinary Humans for eons. But, when two Heroes seek to use an innocent Humanchild to circumvent their own daughter's fate, a magical backlash occurs and the boy accidentally becomes a Wizard.
Meet Farley Bumblestook! Born with the unique ability (once attributed to ancient Shamans) to commune with the Spirits of Earth itself, Farley is the not-so-ordinary Human boy-next-door. Through no fault of his own, his life becomes entangled in the power struggles between factions of magical folk, and he is drawn into a Quest filled with danger and discovery.
Protect their community or protect their discovery?
For eighth graders Chace, Harley, Will, and Cherise, that’s a life-changing question after they find a dragon’s egg while hunting for thundereggs on the beach. Toss in summer jobs, family struggles, and a National Security Agent, and their summer vacation just became complicated.
Can they find a solution that won’t leave their hearts broken or their community in flames?
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She went searching for her birth mother and found another world …from
which no one can escape.Yumiko Corr never knew her birth mother. She
loves her adoptive parents, but she can’t help wondering who she really
is and where she belongs. While searching for her mother in Tokyo,
Yumiko and her parents are swept into another world, where nothing
exists but an enormous island. An island filled with mythological
creatures that aren’t supposed to be real.
But the island is ruled by a spoiled boy, King Rodney, who has taken
control of the creatures through some strange magic. He refuses to let
anyone leave, including Yumiko and her parents!
Can Yumiko find a way off the island and back home, for herself and the
other imprisoned creatures?
Discover your destiny.
Fans of C.S. Lewis, Rick Riordan, and J.K. Rowling now have a new
fantasy world where they can escape! A world brimming with mermaids,
minotaurs, centaurs, and a sea serpent! Explore the beauty and danger of
the mysterious Island of Myste! Includes a Sneak Preview of Book 2:
Terror on the Island of Myste!
The Island of Myste
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Love this book! Couldn't put it down. Cannot wait for the second book!” V. Bruderer
A shadow of shame has fallen over the once proud Maxwell family, and only their faithful son Ajax, can restore honor to their name. He is tasked with guarding a mysterious portal, the existence of which only a few people outside the King are aware. A prophecy warns of a danger to come, as the new keeper, Ajax fears he will let everyone down.
When the Prince of Rastella comes to visit the portal for the first time, accompanied by Ajax’s childhood friend Nivara, disaster strikes! In an accident, the Prince falls into the portal and Ajax knows that it’s up to him to venture in and get him back.
With the knowledge that nobody who has entered it has ever returned, Ajax and Nivara leap through the portal to try to save the Prince. He discovers a world full of magic and fantastic creatures, in an adventure that will test him to his limits, and leave him wondering if he will ever get home.
If you like Brandon Mull, you’ll love The Portal Keeper!
Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy, raised in a hidden cave and enlisted, against their will, to end the terrible war.
But not every dragonet wants a destiny. And when the select five escape their underground captors to look for their original homes, what has been unleashed on the dragon world may be far more than the revolutionary planners intended . . .
