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Best middle grade books

Description: Best books for middle grade readers (i.e. ages 8-12)

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40,073 members

1,586 reviews

4.2

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

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Charlotte's Web

36,123 members

1,023 reviews

4.2

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

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

133,741 members

2,055 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

39,399 members

960 reviews

4

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

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The Chronicles of Narnia

35,548 members

318 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

27,064 members

479 reviews

4

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

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Pippi Longstocking

by Astrid Lindgren

10,521 members

160 reviews

4

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

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Ramona the Pest

by Beverly Cleary

7,691 members

111 reviews

4

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

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by Louis Sachar

23,171 members

949 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

16,185 members

278 reviews

4.2

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

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Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

21,699 members

608 reviews

4

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

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

24,970 members

450 reviews

4.1

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

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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

35,259 members

554 reviews

4.1

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

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The Westing Game

by Ellen Raskin

12,380 members

338 reviews

4.1

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

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The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

17,452 members

425 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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The Graveyard Book

22,186 members

1,263 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

10,667 members

206 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

9,660 members

664 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

31,645 members

1,246 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

29,370 members

559 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

2,918 members

53 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,362 members

1,189 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

15,565 members

227 reviews

4.1

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

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by Gary Paulsen

17,554 members

579 reviews

3.8

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

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

42,965 members

518 reviews

3.9

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

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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

11,403 members

174 reviews

3.9

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

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The Wee Free Men

by Terry Pratchett

10,783 members

258 reviews

4.2

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

28

The Mysterious Benedict Society

by Trenton Lee Stewart

8,822 members

280 reviews

4

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

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by Richard Adams

24,887 members

471 reviews

4.2

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

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The Mysterious Howling

by Maryrose Wood

1,709 members

117 reviews

3.9

4 Members: foggidawn, keristars, keeneam, AnHofmann

31

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

by Kate DiCamillo

14,331 members

546 reviews

4.1

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

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22,104 members

478 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

1,179 members

26 reviews

4

4 Members: skullduggery, SylviaC, jacqueline065, ManWithAnAgenda

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My Side of the Mountain

by Jean Craighead George

11,779 members

147 reviews

4

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

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His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

14,234 members

202 reviews

½ 4.3

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

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19,793 members

417 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: Soupdragon, skullduggery, keeneam, ahef1963

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by Edward Eager

4,248 members

87 reviews

4

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

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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

by Jeanne Birdsall

5,512 members

192 reviews

4.1

3 Members: foggidawn, MDGentleReader, cej1027

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Harriet the Spy

by Louise Fitzhugh

6,982 members

121 reviews

4

4 Members: foggidawn, keristars, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,216 members

287 reviews

4.1

4 Members: dara85, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Last Apprentice (Revenge of the Witch)

by Joseph Delaney

2,897 members

112 reviews

3.9

3 Members: skullduggery, jacqueline065, susiesharp

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by Megan Whalen Turner

5,184 members

210 reviews

4

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

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The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

23,723 members

330 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

11,146 members

170 reviews

4.2

4 Members: skullduggery, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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6,747 members

179 reviews

3.8

3 Members: skullduggery, susiesharp, Anjali.Negi

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Charlotte Sometimes

by Penelope Farmer

869 members

23 reviews

4

2 Members: Soupdragon, SylviaC

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by Sara Pennypacker

4,009 members

164 reviews

4.2

3 Members: foggidawn, keeneam, cej1027

48

Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Ryrie Brink

7,798 members

58 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, MDGentleReader

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by Jerry Spinelli

9,250 members

233 reviews

4

3 Members: skullduggery, keeneam, ManWithAnAgenda

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

21,959 members

423 reviews

3.9

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

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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

3,445 members

84 reviews

4.1

3 Members: SylviaC, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

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A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin

15,957 members

375 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, Anjali.Negi, ManWithAnAgenda

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James and the Giant Peach

19,710 members

361 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,055 members

430 reviews

3.8

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Helen Cresswell

323 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

44,317 members

1,328 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

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by Markus Zusak

44,846 members

2,125 reviews

½ 4.4

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

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3,985 members

358 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: skullduggery, cej1027

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by Michelle Paver

2,457 members

75 reviews

4

2 Members: Soupdragon, skullduggery

60

Skulduggery Pleasant

3,070 members

133 reviews

4

2 Members: bestem, skullduggery

61

by Carol Ryrie Brink

959 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

62

The Night Diary

by Veera Hiranandani

907 members

39 reviews

4.2

Member: PeggyDean

63

Kat, Incorrigible

by Stephanie Burgis

466 members

54 reviews

4

Member: keristars

64

Babe: The Gallant Pig

by Dick King-Smith

2,310 members

31 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

65

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

by Terry Pratchett

7,042 members

134 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

66

Because of Winn-Dixie

by Kate DiCamillo

15,237 members

562 reviews

4.1

2 Members: dara85, cej1027

67

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

32,881 members

325 reviews

3.9

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

68

The City of Ember

by Jeanne DuPrau

10,702 members

412 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

69

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

by Robert Louis Stevenson

457 members

3 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

70

The House at Pooh Corner

8,447 members

77 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

71

by J. M. Barrie

18,924 members

326 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

72

14,945 members

198 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

73

Boy: Tales of Childhood

7,763 members

133 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, Anjali.Negi

74

The Wednesday Wars

by Gary D. Schmidt

4,079 members

213 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: foggidawn, skullduggery

75

To Kill a Mockingbird

78,461 members

1,433 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

76

Finding the Fox

91 members

3 reviews

4

Member: Soupdragon

77

The Four-Story Mistake

by Elizabeth Enright

1,125 members

19 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: MDGentleReader

78

The Snow Spider

848 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Soupdragon

79

The Machine Gunners

by Robert Westall

557 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

80

by Peggy Brooke

163 members

1 review

3.1

Member: dara85

81

The Journey Home

by Isabelle Holland

187 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

82

by R. J. Palacio

14,107 members

1,247 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: dara85

83

by Zizou Corder

1,319 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: Soupdragon

84

20,146 members

692 reviews

4

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda,Anjali.Negi

85

The Secret School

by Avi

2,565 members

29 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

86

1,175 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Moomin_Mama

87

Five on a Treasure Island

2,236 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: skullduggery

88

The Silver Sword

by Ian Serraillier

2,678 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

89

The Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliff

3,189 members

62 reviews

4

Member: dara85

90

by Jennifer Roy

966 members

46 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

91

Danny the Champion of the World

7,755 members

80 reviews

4

Member: Anjali.Negi

92

The Seeing Summer

by Jeannette Eyerly

34 members

1 review

4

Member: dara85

93

by Michael Morpurgo

3,725 members

123 reviews

4

Member: Anjali.Negi

94

Breaking Stalin's Nose

by Eugene Yelchin

1,326 members

98 reviews

3.9

Member: foggidawn

95

Swallows and Amazons

by Arthur Ransome

3,873 members

83 reviews

4.1

Member: cej1027

96

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

2,181 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

97

by Louisa May Alcott

26,442 members

399 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

98

The Lantern Bearers

by Rosemary Sutcliff

1,314 members

23 reviews

4.2

Member: cej1027

99

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

49,582 members

745 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

100

Emil and the Detectives

by Erich Kästner

1,820 members

35 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

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