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Best middle grade books

Description: Best books for middle grade readers (i.e. ages 8-12)
Members: 23 participating members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, cej1027, skullduggery, foggidawn, susiesharp, Anjali.Negi, SylviaC, dara85, keeneam, Moomin_Mama, Soupdragon, keristars, bestem, MDGentleReader, hailelib, PeggyDean, lahochstetler, jacqueline065, AnHofmann, LeiraBooks, _Zoe_

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38,401 members

1,557 reviews

4.2

10 Members: _Zoe_, foggidawn, keristars, bestem, skullduggery, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

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Charlotte's Web

34,888 members

1,006 reviews

4.2

10 Members: dara85, foggidawn, lahochstetler, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)

by J. K. Rowling

128,830 members

2,019 reviews

½ 4.3

10 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, Soupdragon, skullduggery, SylviaC, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi,keristars ,ManWithAnAgenda

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A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

37,873 members

934 reviews

4

10 Members: dara85, foggidawn, keristars, skullduggery, SylviaC, MDGentleReader, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Chronicles of Narnia

34,443 members

300 reviews

½ 4.3

11 Members: foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, Soupdragon, skullduggery, SylviaC, susiesharp, MDGentleReader, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda,keristars ,keeneam

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

25,828 members

474 reviews

4

8 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, Soupdragon, skullduggery, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,035 members

157 reviews

4

9 Members: dara85, foggidawn, lahochstetler, skullduggery, SylviaC, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Ramona the Pest

by Beverly Cleary

7,344 members

108 reviews

4

8 Members: foggidawn, keristars, lahochstetler, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963

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by Louis Sachar

22,444 members

941 reviews

4.1

9 Members: foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, bestem, skullduggery, keeneam, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

by E. L. Konigsburg

15,557 members

271 reviews

4.2

8 Members: foggidawn, keristars, PeggyDean, keeneam, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, LeiraBooks

11

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

20,705 members

599 reviews

4

8 Members: foggidawn, bestem, skullduggery, keeneam, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

12

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

24,070 members

436 reviews

4.1

8 Members: dara85, skullduggery, SylviaC, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

33,616 members

539 reviews

4.1

8 Members: foggidawn, bestem, skullduggery, SylviaC, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

14

The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

11,816 members

330 reviews

4.1

8 Members: foggidawn, keristars, skullduggery, SylviaC, keeneam, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

16,800 members

419 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: keristars, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, SylviaC, keeneam, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Graveyard Book

21,352 members

1,238 reviews

4.2

7 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery, PeggyDean, susiesharp, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Light in the Attic: Poems and Drawings

by Shel Silverstein

10,351 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, skullduggery, SylviaC, cej1027, ahef1963

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

9,353 members

658 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, skullduggery, susiesharp, cej1027, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda,keristars

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The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

29,532 members

1,217 reviews

4.1

7 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, skullduggery, SylviaC, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

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Anne of Green Gables

by L. M. Montgomery

28,172 members

535 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery, SylviaC, cej1027, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi

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The Dark is Rising Sequence

by Susan Cooper

2,846 members

51 reviews

½ 4.3

7 Members: Soupdragon, skullduggery, SylviaC, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

90,844 members

1,160 reviews

½ 4.3

8 Members: hailelib, foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, SylviaC, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,keristars ,Anjali.Negi

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Little House on the Prairie

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

14,882 members

221 reviews

4.1

6 Members: dara85, foggidawn, bestem, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963

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by Gary Paulsen

16,710 members

563 reviews

3.8

6 Members: skullduggery, keeneam, susiesharp, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

41,626 members

509 reviews

3.9

6 Members: skullduggery, susiesharp, MDGentleReader, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,keristars

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

10,922 members

169 reviews

3.9

6 Members: foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, bestem, skullduggery, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Wee Free Men

by Terry Pratchett

10,449 members

254 reviews

4.2

6 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery, susiesharp, MDGentleReader, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

8,341 members

270 reviews

4

5 Members: skullduggery, keeneam, MDGentleReader, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Richard Adams

24,058 members

463 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hailelib, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Mysterious Howling

by Maryrose Wood

1,643 members

112 reviews

3.9

4 Members: foggidawn, keristars, keeneam, AnHofmann

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The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread

by Kate DiCamillo

13,706 members

539 reviews

4.1

5 Members: foggidawn, Moomin_Mama, skullduggery, PeggyDean, cej1027

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21,133 members

463 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: keristars, skullduggery, SylviaC, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Girl with the Silver Eyes

by Willo Davis Roberts

1,150 members

25 reviews

4

4 Members: skullduggery, SylviaC, jacqueline065, ManWithAnAgenda

34

My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,221 members

139 reviews

4

5 Members: foggidawn, keeneam, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

35

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

13,883 members

201 reviews

½ 4.3

6 Members: bestem, skullduggery, susiesharp, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda,_Zoe_

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19,149 members

408 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Soupdragon, skullduggery, keeneam, ahef1963

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by Edward Eager

4,094 members

84 reviews

4

5 Members: bestem, skullduggery, PeggyDean, susiesharp, cej1027,Anjali.Negi

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The Penderwicks

by Jeanne Birdsall

5,229 members

184 reviews

4.1

3 Members: foggidawn, MDGentleReader, cej1027

39

Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

6,762 members

119 reviews

4.1

4 Members: foggidawn, keristars, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

40

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

15,510 members

274 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

41

The Last Apprentice (Revenge of the Witch)

by Joseph Delaney

2,762 members

107 reviews

3.9

3 Members: skullduggery, jacqueline065, susiesharp

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by Megan Whalen Turner

4,967 members

203 reviews

4

4 Members: foggidawn, bestem, skullduggery, ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

22,761 members

325 reviews

4.1

4 Members: skullduggery, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

by Robert C. O'Brien

10,682 members

165 reviews

4.2

4 Members: skullduggery, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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6,476 members

174 reviews

3.8

3 Members: skullduggery, susiesharp, Anjali.Negi

46

Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer

845 members

22 reviews

4

2 Members: Soupdragon, SylviaC

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by Sara Pennypacker

3,789 members

163 reviews

4.2

3 Members: foggidawn, keeneam, cej1027

48

Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Ryrie Brink

7,483 members

57 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, MDGentleReader

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by Jerry Spinelli

8,932 members

234 reviews

4

3 Members: skullduggery, keeneam, ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

20,902 members

409 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

51

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

3,317 members

77 reviews

4.1

3 Members: SylviaC, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,310 members

356 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

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James and the Giant Peach

18,910 members

352 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

32,484 members

425 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Helen Cresswell

312 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery, ahef1963

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

43,336 members

1,307 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Markus Zusak

43,168 members

2,107 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: skullduggery, susiesharp, ahef1963, Anjali.Negi,foggidawn ,Moomin_Mama

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3,867 members

352 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: skullduggery, cej1027

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by Michelle Paver

2,356 members

76 reviews

4

2 Members: Soupdragon, skullduggery

60

Skulduggery Pleasant

2,936 members

131 reviews

4

2 Members: bestem, skullduggery

61

by Carol Ryrie Brink

918 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

62

The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

817 members

34 reviews

4.1

Member: PeggyDean

63

Kat, Incorrigible

by Stephanie Burgis

452 members

52 reviews

4

Member: keristars

64

The sheep-pig (Republished aa: Babe : the gallant pig)

by Dick King-Smith

2,209 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

by Terry Pratchett

6,851 members

126 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

14,540 members

549 reviews

4.2

2 Members: dara85, cej1027

67

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

31,574 members

319 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

10,299 members

403 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

437 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh)

8,070 members

75 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by J. M. Barrie

18,011 members

313 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

72

14,357 members

190 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

Boy: Tales of Childhood

7,411 members

134 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, Anjali.Negi

74

The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt

3,902 members

206 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery

75

To Kill a Mockingbird

76,236 members

1,435 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

76

Finding the Fox

89 members

3 reviews

4

Member: Soupdragon

77

The Four-Story Mistake

by Elizabeth Enright

1,084 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

78

The Snow Spider

821 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Soupdragon

79

The Machine Gunners

by Robert Westall

530 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Peggy Brooke

157 members

1 review

3.1

Member: dara85

81

The Journey Home

by Isabelle Holland

183 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

82

by R. J. Palacio

13,398 members

1,212 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: dara85

83

by Zizou Corder

1,266 members

28 reviews

3.8

Member: Soupdragon

84

19,360 members

672 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

85

The Secret School

by Avi

2,465 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

86

1,143 members

21 reviews

3.8

Member: Moomin_Mama

87

Five on a Treasure Island

2,127 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: skullduggery

88

The Silver Sword

by Ian Serraillier

2,589 members

40 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

89

The Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliff

3,032 members

62 reviews

4

Member: dara85

90

Danny the Champion of the World

7,382 members

77 reviews

4

Member: Anjali.Negi

91

by Michael Morpurgo

3,584 members

121 reviews

4

Member: Anjali.Negi

92

Breaking Stalin's Nose

by Eugene Yelchin

1,254 members

96 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

93

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,684 members

82 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

94

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,122 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ahef1963

95

by Louisa May Alcott

25,380 members

394 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

96

The Lantern Bearers

by Rosemary Sutcliff

1,249 members

21 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

97

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

48,048 members

730 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

98

Emil and the Detectives

by Erich Kästner

1,737 members

33 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

99

The Field Guide

by Tony DiTerlizzi

4,741 members

106 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

100

8,026 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

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