Great Middle School Fiction


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Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer
Jenna helps Mrs. Gladstone cope with escalating problems that result from the merger of Gladstone Shoes with Shoe Warehouse Corporation, while managing a new employee with a shoplifting record.

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Moose is forced to move, give up baseball, and take care of his autistic sister after his father takes a job at Alcatraz prison.

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer
When Meg and her partner, Belch, attempt to rob an elderly man, things go horribly wrong. After an explosion, Meg's spirit is flung into limbo, and a race begins between good and evil to win Meg's soul.

The Blue Girl by Charles de Lint
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life.

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.

Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s share a close friendship, and despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.

Messenger by Lois Lowry
Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, must conceal an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
The Great Miao, master of the Jade Circus, offers Haoyou the amazing chance to escape his family's poverty by becoming a kite rider.

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Mat and Kate team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminister Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
When Turner and Lizzie discover a plot to evict poor families from an island founded by slaves, it is up to them to stop it.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Tally is excited to turn sixteen and she can't wait for the life-altering operation that will turn her from an ugly into a pretty. Sequel is Pretties.

April 18, 2006