Get your middle grader reading!
These three novels are impactful and engaging.
Eighth grade poet, Moses Jackson, learns his family structure will be changing, and his anger leads him to make a bad decision. He is forced to move to a new school where he encounters racism for the first time.
Peter Lucas lives on an island so small it doesn’t even appear on most maps. Ever since his brother’s accident left him in a coma, Peter has carried a heavy secret—he believes it’s all his fault. When his guilt drives him to take a risky trip to the mainland, he and his friends come up with a daring plan to sneak aboard the ferry.
Thirteen-year-old Mika Larson knows something is wrong with her mother, but she doesn’t ask questions until a public episode changes everything. When Mom is hospitalized with schizophrenia, Mika is forced to live with her estranged father, a man whom she hasn't seen in two years.