Wanted: Compelling Middle Grade Fiction!
October 28, 2015 12:09 AM Subscribe
I've just read When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead. What an amazing book! Thanks to my ever-growing collection of nieces and nephews, I've enjoyed lots of middle grade fiction. It's been a few years years since I've picked up a good MG novel, though. Does anyone have any recent recommendations in a similar category or style? I'm looking for sophisticated middle grade fiction with strong crossover appeal.
Best answer: I recently finished The Thing About Jellyfish and it is so incredibly good. Warning: MAJOR tearjerker.
posted by Metroid Baby at 3:52 AM on October 28, 2015
posted by Metroid Baby at 3:52 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup is relatively unknown and terribly underrated IMO
posted by mikepop at 4:26 AM on October 28, 2015
The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
The Book of Story Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup is relatively unknown and terribly underrated IMO
posted by mikepop at 4:26 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: Chasing Vermeer Series by Blue Balliet
Maile Meloy's Apothecary series
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy
The other two Stead books that I have read are good, but not as good as WYRM: Liar and Spy and Goodbye Stranger.
posted by soelo at 7:33 AM on October 28, 2015
Maile Meloy's Apothecary series
Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy
The other two Stead books that I have read are good, but not as good as WYRM: Liar and Spy and Goodbye Stranger.
posted by soelo at 7:33 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter
The Gideon Series by Linda Buckley-Archer
The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
The Keepers Trilogy by Lian Tanner
Savvy, Scumble and Switch by Ingrid Law
posted by soelo at 7:38 AM on October 28, 2015
The Gideon Series by Linda Buckley-Archer
The Aviary by Kathleen O'Dell
The Keepers Trilogy by Lian Tanner
Savvy, Scumble and Switch by Ingrid Law
posted by soelo at 7:38 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: The Wells and Wong books by Robin Stevens.
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon.
posted by jeather at 8:44 AM on October 28, 2015
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon.
posted by jeather at 8:44 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan and A Nearer Moon by Melanie Crowder are two of my favorite MGs of late.
posted by weeyin at 9:40 AM on October 28, 2015
posted by weeyin at 9:40 AM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: Anything by Kate DiCamillo, but particularly Flora & Ulysses. Also anything by Jonathan Auxier. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library. Wonder. Rain Reign. Leisl & Po.
posted by Barnifer at 5:46 PM on October 28, 2015
posted by Barnifer at 5:46 PM on October 28, 2015
Best answer: another worthy Newbery winner: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
everything by Cynthia Kadohata (Half a World Away is my favorite)
posted by thetortoise at 11:50 AM on October 29, 2015
everything by Cynthia Kadohata (Half a World Away is my favorite)
posted by thetortoise at 11:50 AM on October 29, 2015
Response by poster: Thank you ALL. I really appreciate your suggestions. I used my points and bought them all. These all seem so amazing and exactly what I'm looking for. Hello, month of December!
posted by orangutan at 2:41 PM on October 29, 2015
posted by orangutan at 2:41 PM on October 29, 2015
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Greenglass House by Kate Milford
The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente (and sequels)
posted by girlhacker at 12:34 AM on October 28, 2015