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Middle School Fiction Series Ruby Redfort The Walk On Football Genius Child - MYSTERY, ACTION Feinstein - SPORTS, REALISTIC Green - SPORTS, REALISTIC Ruby Redfort is a 13-year-old genius code- Alex Myers wins a spot as a varsity quarterback, but Troy has a gift for predicting football plays cracker, daring detective, and gadget-laden may not get to play for two years since the first-string before they occur, and must prove himself to MIDDLE SCHOOL special agent. She and her sidekick butler, quarterback is not only a local hero, but also the son of the coach and players of the Atlanta Falcons Hitch, foil crimes and keep ice-cool in a the corrupt head coach. so he can guide them to victory. crisis. MID F FEINSTEIN MID F GREEN SERIES MID F CHILD Once Upon a Marigold Alex Rider: Stormbreaker Gregor the Overlander Ferris - FANTASY, HUMOR Horowitz - ACTION Collins - Chains FANTASY A young man with a mysterious past leaves Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continuing Gregor and his two-year-old sister fall into a strange the troll who raised him, meets an unhappy his recently-deceased uncle’s dangerous work as a spy Anderson - HISTORICAL FICTION underground world and trigger an epic battle involving princess he has loved from afar, and for Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6. After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while seeking to discovers a plot against her and her father. MID F HOROWITZ a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the fulfill an old prophecy. MID F FERRIS Revolutionary War. JF COLLINS MID F ANDERSON March The Last Dragonslayer Lewis - GRAPHIC NOVEL, NONFICTION The Fire Within Fforde - The Iron Trial FANTASY, HUMOR A vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ d’Lacey - FANTASY Jennifer runs an agency for underemployed magicians lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, Black - FANTASY When college student David Rain rents in a world where magic is fading away, but when reflecting on the highs and lows of the Warned away from magic all his life, Callum unwillingly a room in a boardinghouse full of clay visions of the death of the last dragon begin, all signs broader civil rights movement. becomes a student at the Magisterium, where he is dragons, he has no idea that they, along point to Jennifer as the dragonslayer. MID GC LEWIS and GN LEWIS forced to confront dark elements from his past. with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart MID F FFORDE JF BLACK his writing career. Legend JF D’LACEY Can You Say Catastrophe? Lu - Bodyguard SCIENCE FICTION, DYSTOPIAN Friedman - REALISTIC North America has split into two warring nations, and Bradford - ACTION The Breadwinner April Sinclair writes about her crush, a love triangle Day, a famous criminal, and June, the brilliant soldier Connor Reeves joins the Guardian young Ellis - REALISTIC involving her best friend, and her wild parents and hired to capture him, discover that they have a common bodyguard squad and is tasked with When the father of Parvana, a girl from Afghanistan, is sisters. enemy. protecting the U.S. president’s daughter from arrested by the Taliban, her family becomes desperate MID F FRIEDMAN MID F LU and YA LU being taken hostage by a terrorist sleeper cell. because women cannot work outside the home--until MID F BRADFORD Parvana conceives a plan. World War II: The Right Fight MID F ELLIS Once Lynch - Secrets of My Hollywood Life HISTORICAL FICTION Gleitzman - HISTORICAL FICTION Roman, Nick, Theo, and Hank join the U.S. military Calonita - REALISTIC Michael Vey After living in a Catholic orphanage for during World War II, and each experiences the war Longing to experience the life of a “normal” teenager, Evans - ACTION, SCIENCE FICTION nearly four years, a naive Jewish boy runs a little differently, from Europe to North Africa to the sixteen-year-old actress Kaitlin Burke assumes a false Michael, who has mysterious electric powers, joins with away and embarks on a journey across Pacific Theater. identity to attend a local high school. other teens like him to discover how they ended up with Nazi-occupied Poland to find his parents. MID F LYNCH MID F CALONITA their abilities. MID F GLEITZMAN MID F EVANS SYLO Skelton Creek Gone MacHale - ACTION, THRILLER Carman - MYSTERY, HORROR Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery Grant - SCIENCE FICTION, DYSTOPIAN When Tucker’s island home is occupied Although housebound following an accident, Ryan Feinstein - SPORTS, REALISTIC When everyone over the age of fourteen by SYLO, a secret branch of the Navy, he continues to investigate the strange occurrences in his After winning a basketball reporting contest, suddenly disappears, the remaining young sets out to uncover the truth behind their hometown of Skeleton Creek, recording his findings in a eighth graders Stevie and Susan are sent to people are thrown into a battle between presence and the mysterious deaths journal. cover the Final Four tournament, where they those who have “The Power” and those who occuring around town. MID F CARMAN discover that a talented player is being do not. MID F MACHALE and YA MACHALE blackmailed into throwing the final game. YA GRANT www.gpld.org MID F FEINSTEIN The Novice The Mark of the Thief Steelheart Lockwood & Co: Matharu - FANTASY Nielsen - FANTASY, Sanderson - SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION The Screaming Staircase Fletcher learns he can summon demons, and HISTORICAL FICTION Ten years after David’s father was killed by an Epic, Stroud - HORROR travels to an academy to study to become a Nic, a slave, obtains an ancient amulet filled a man with superhuman powers, he joins the Lucy, Lockwood, and George operate the Battlemage in a war against the Orcs. with magic once reserved for the Gods, and Reckoners–the only people who are trying to kill Psychic Detection Agency, a teen-run MID F MATHARU and YA MATHARU becomes the center of a conspiracy to the Epics and end their tyranny. company that battles an epidemic of ghosts overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome. MID F SANDERSON and YA SANDERSON in London. The Haunting of Sunshine Girl MID F NIELSEN MID F STROUD McKenzie - HORROR The Alchemyst: Secrets of the When Sunshine Griffith and her mom move to Airborn Immortal Nicholas Flamel Girl Online Ridgemont, Washington, Sunshine discovers ghosts Oppel - SCIENCE FICTION, STEAMPUNK Scott - FANTASY Sugg - REALISTIC, ROMANCE in the house and a hidden birthright that might be the Matt, a cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a Twins Sophie and Josh are caught up in the Under the alias Girl Online, Penny blogs about a trip only way to save her mother. wealthy young traveler, search for the existence of deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival to New York, where she falls in love with a gorgeous, MID F MCKENZIE and YA MCKENZIE mysterious winged creatures living hundreds of feet alchemists over the possession of a book guitar-strumming boy with a secret that threatens to above the Earth’s surface. holding the secrets of alchemy and ruin Penny’s cover. The Apothecary MID F OPPEL everlasting life. MID F SUGG MID F SCOTT Meloy - FANTASY, HISTORICAL FICTION A fourteen-year-old American girl’s life unexpectedly Maximum Ride: The Angel Wings of Fire transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and Experiment The Grimm Legacy Sutherland - FANTASY gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear Patterson - SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION Shulman - FANTASY, FAIRY TALE Five young dragons are raised in secret to fulfill a war. After mutant Erasers abduct the youngest Elizabeth gains access to the Grimm Collection prophecy that they will end the generations-long war MID F MELOY of their group, the “bird kids,“ who are the of magical objects, and is drawn into a series of among the seven dragon tribes. result of genetic experiments, give chase frightening adventures involving mythical creatures JF SUTHERLAND Cinder and struggle to understand their origins and stolen goods. and purpose. MID F SHULMAN Meyer - SCIENCE FICTION H.I.V.E. MID F PATTERSON and YA PATTERSON Futuristic sci-fi retellings of classic fairy tales Walden - ACTION The Schwa Was Here including cyborgs, androids, an evil queen Swept away to a hidden academy for training budding of the moon, and a lot of adventure and Liar Liar Shusterman - HUMOR, REALISTIC evil geniuses, Otto, Wing, Laura, and Shelby plot to romance. Paulsen - HUMOR, REALISTIC FICTION FICTION beat the odds and escape the prison known as H.I.V.E. YA MEYER Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy JF WALDEN easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his befriends the Schwa, an “invisible-ish” boy Cherub: The Recruit friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end who is tired of blending into his Uglies his lies forever. surroundings and going unnoticed Muchamore - ACTION Westerfeld - SCIENCE FICTION, MID F PAULSEN by nearly everyone. James is recruited into CHERUB, a secret division of MI5 MID F SHUSTERMAN DYSTOPIAN made up of teenage spies, and embarks on training Just before they are to become “Pretties,” and his first mission. Life As We Knew It Geek Girl whose only job is to have a great time, YA MUCHAMORE Pfeffer - SURVIVAL, SCIENCE FICTION Tally’s best friend runs away and Tally must Smale - HUMOR Through journal entries, sixteen-year-old Miranda find her and turn her in, or never become Beyonders: A World Without describes her family’s struggle to survive after a When she is accidentally discovered by a modeling pretty at all. Heroes meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide death and agent, fifteen-year-old Harriet jumps at the chance to MID F WESTERFELD and YA WESTERFELD devastation.
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