Even if you aren't in middle school, take some time to check out one of these too good to miss titles for a fun and exciting read.
Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: find one thing you're really good at, and become the best at it. With his best friend, Chelsea, by his side, Rahul is ready to crush this challenge. But what if he discovers he isn't the best at anything?
Twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
Prosper is the only unexceptional Redding in his old and storied family history—that is, until he discovers the demon living inside him. Turns out Prosper's great-great-great-great-great-something grandfather made—and then broke—a contract with a malefactor, a demon who exchanges fortune for eternal servitude. The fiend has reawakened with one purpose: to destroy the family whose success he ensured and who then betrayed him.
Eva Evergreen is determined to earn the rank of Novice Witch before her 13th birthday. If she doesn't, she'll lose her magic forever. The only problem? Eva only has a pinch of magic. When she lands in the tranquil coastal town of Auteri, the residents expect a powerful witch, not a semi-magical girl. So Eva comes up with a plan: set up a magical repair shop to aid Auteri and prove she's worthy.
Malú reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang—violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
Alice Queensmeadow, with the help of her friend Oliver, travels through the dangerous, magical land of Furthermore in order to rescue her missing father and prove her own magical abilities.
Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on to save the town before it's too late.
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane—which is considered bad luck—Caroline falls in love with another girl, and together, they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
Crossing paths at an inn, 13th-century travelers impart the tales of a monastery oblate, a Jewish refugee, and a psychic peasant girl with a loyal greyhound, the three of whom join forces on a chase through France to escape persecution.
Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born. When he was young, he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer and turned into a teapot, which kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing—until one day he meets Maggie, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all of the other dragons.
Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magical school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. When a dangerous criminal escapes prison, supposedly with a Conjuror's aid, Ella becomes the target of suspicion. With the help of her friends and her own growing powers, Ella must find a way to clear her family's name and track down her mentor before it's too late.
Irish orphans Molly and Kip travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon, the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
When a child goes missing from the Orphan House in the town of Stone-in-the-Glen, the mayor suggests the kindly Ogress is responsible, but the orphans don't believe that, and they try to make their deluded neighbors see the real villain among them.
Jude never thought she'd be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati with relatives. But this life also brings unexpected surprises; there are new friends, a whole new family, and a school musical that Jude might just try out for. Maybe America, too, is a place where Jude can be seen as she really is.
The plucky and talented Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co. After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous end, Lucy, Anthony, and their colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combe Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England.
Caleb Franklin and his big brother, Bobby Gene, spend an extraordinary summer with their new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, a foster boy from the city.
After 11-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces.
Harper doesn't trust her new home from the moment she steps inside, and the rumors are that the Raine family's new house is haunted. Harper isn't sure she believes those rumors, until her younger brother, Michael, starts acting strangely. She knows that the memories she's blocking will help make sense of her brother's behavior and the strange and threatening sensations she feels in this house, but will she be able to put the pieces together in time?
Told from separate viewpoints, Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world.
Jolina can't take Claudine's bullying any longer! Though Jolina knows she's still in training to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love potion, and it conquers Claudine's hateful nature. In fact, Claudine doesn't just stop bullying Jolina—now she wants to be Jolina's BFF, and does everything and anything Jolina asks. But magic comes with a cost, and bad intentions beget bad returns.
In 19th-century England, after her father's disappearance Nan Sparrow works as a "climbing boy" aiding chimney sweeps, but when her most treasured possessions end up in a fireplace, she unwittingly creates a golem.
When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily traps a tiger and makes a deal with him to heal Halmoni.
Tucked away in a government facility nicknamed the Playroom, six not-quite-human kids learn to control their strange and unpredictable abilities. Life is good, hidden from the prying eyes of a judgmental world. Until a security breach forces them out of their home and into the path of the Collector, a mysterious being with leech-like powers.
Goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped.
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when 16 kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters—and their own inner demons—on one last quest before school starts again.
Join the Dungeon Critters, a tight-knit squad of animal companions, on a wild adventure investigating a sinister botanical conspiracy among the furry nobility. As they risk their lives traveling through haunted dungeons, swamps, and high society balls, they also come closer together as friends.
After witnessing a violent attack at school, Manuel struggles with anxiety but his cell phone camera helps him find anchors when he dissociates, and an unexpected friendship opens up new possibilities.
Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same: just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help, and they must decide whether they are each willing to expose their own secrets to help?
Aware of the racial tumult in the years after the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain blissfully focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan, reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.
Jordan's days as the star player for her school's basketball team ended when an accident left her paralyzed. Now, she's still the team captain, but her competition days seem to be behind her, until an encounter with a mysterious elephant, who she names Marshmallow, helps Jordan discover a new sport. Will water polo be the way for Jordan to continue her athletic dreams?
The reclusive Lord Whimsy plans to stop an old rival from uncovering the truth of a disappearance and blind Safia finds herself experiencing an adventure and parts of the world she had only dreamed about.
Nayra has constant pressure from her strict family, ruthless bullying from her classmates, and exhausting friendship demands from Rami, the only other Muslim girl at school. Just when she's considering transferring schools to escape it all, a mysterious djinn named Marjan appears. As a djinn—a mythical being in Islamic folklore—Marjan uses their powers and wisdom to help Nayra navigate her overwhelming life.
After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
Vonceil Taggart, willing to risk everything to set things right, leaves her family's Oklahoma farm in 1919 seeking the salt witch who cast a spell that turned their spring to saltwater.
Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees—until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears.