The Secret Letters [Mysteries of Trash & Treasure]by Margaret Peterson HaddixIntermediate Tegen/HarperCollins 400 pp.9/22 9780062838520 $17.99e-book ed. 978006283854 $12.99Colin, an only child, and Nevaeh, the youngest of five, are both reluctantly working at their families’ businesses for the summer. At Possession Curation, Colin is tempted to rescue items his ultra-minimalist...
Twelfth by Janet KeyIntermediate, Middle School Little, Brown 368 pp. g5/22 978-0-316-66931-3 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-66934-4 $9.99Theater camp is not how introverted twelve-year-old Maren Sands had planned to spend her summer. Nevertheless, she finds herself following in her sister Hadley’s path at Camp Goodman. Maren generally avoids the stage, but...
Consider the Octopus by Nora Raleigh Baskin and Gae PolisnerIntermediate Godwin/Holt 272 pp. g4/22 978-1-250-79351-5 $16.99e-book ed. 978-1-250-79352-2 $9.99Jeremy’s mom tasks him with inviting famous scientists to a symposium on her sea-bound research ship, which is testing out a tool for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. He...
Breda’s Island by Jessie Ann FoleyIntermediate, Middle School Quill Tree/HarperCollins 256 pp. g7/22 978-0-06-320772-1 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-06-320775-2 $10.99Breda didn’t believe her single mother would really send her from Chicago to Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula for the summer if she got caught stealing again, but her theft of a classmate’s gym...
A Perfect Mistake by Melanie ConklinIntermediate Little, Brown 288 pp. g7/22 978-0-316-66858-3 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-316-66860-6 $9.99Max is not in a good place at the beginning of sixth grade: his ADHD makes school a challenge; a recent growth spurt causes people to think he’s an adult instead of an eleven-year-old;...
Zia Erases the World by Bree BartonIntermediate Viking 256 pp. g4/22 978-0-593-35099-7 $16.99e-book ed. 978-0-593-35100-0 $9.99Sixth grader Zia Angelis is living with depression—the Shadoom, to Zia, who is fond of inventing portmanteau words. She doesn’t know how to explain what she’s feeling to her supportive mother, to her one-time friends,...
Wreck at Ada’s Reef [Swallowtail Legacy]by Michael D. BeilIntermediate Pixel + Ink 320 pp. g2/22 978-1-64595-048-6 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-64595-102-5 $10.99Lark Heron-Finch is back at her family’s house on Lake Erie’s Swallowtail Island for the first time since her mother’s death. With her younger sister, stepfather, and three stepbrothers also there,...
Breathing Underwater by Sarah Allen Intermediate, Middle School Farrar 224 pp. g 3/21 978-0-374-31325-8 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-374-31326-5 $9.99 Thirteen-year-old Olivia has a plan for the cross-country RV trip she and her older sister, Ruth, are taking with their mother’s cousin and his wife: re-create — in reverse — the...
The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga Middle School Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins 288 pp. g 5/21 978-0-06-295667-5 $16.99 e-book ed. 978-0-06-295669-9 $9.99 A dual-perspective novel follows two girls in the aftermath of a school shooting. Almost a year after her older sister was killed in that shooting by a classmate,...