Fiction > Middle Grade
As readers transition from younger books towards books for more mature readers it can be hard to find the right thing. Middle grade books are most suited to readers aged 11-15 and are a gentler transition toward young adult fiction.
Themes around friendship, community, family, social situations and even world-wide issues are dealt with through relatable characters. Readers are often looking to read about the experiences of those slightly older than them as they enter their tween and early teenage years and start to figure out their personal ideas and positions as a more independent individual. Reading offers a chance to learn from the experiences, successes and mistakes of others, to think through a different perspective and reflect on how they would face a similar situation. This enables the building of empathy and understanding, towards others and ourselves.
Rooftoppers: 10th Anniversary Edition by Katherine Rundell
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade
Everyone tells Sophie that she was orphaned in a shipwreck - found floating in a cello case on the English Channel on her first birthday. But Sophie is convinced her mother also survived. When the Welfare Agency threatens to separate her from her guardian and send her to an orphanage, Sophie takes matt ...Show more
What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Reading Guide 2023
Sometimes it only takes a stranger in a dark place... to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season. In 2019, Neil Gaiman asked his Twitter followers: What reminds you of warmth? Over 1,000 responses later, Neil began to weave replies from across the world into a poem in ai ...Show more
Cuckoo's Flight by Wendy Orr
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
When Clio's town in Bronze Age Crete is threatened by seafaring raiders, she faces the greatest sacrifice of all. Can Clio, her herd of horses and a new young friend find a way to change their destinies? Another wonderfully engaging historical middle fiction adventure from the author of Dragonfly Song a ...Show more
Ming and Ada Spark the Digital Age (The Girls Who Changed the World, #4) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Series: The\Girls Who Changed the World Ser.
The fourth book in the best-selling Jackie French historical series that places girls centre stage. Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. History's sister, the mysterious Herstory, believes that the more you know about the past, the better you can understand the ...Show more
Golden Gate by James Ponti
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Series: City Spies Ser.
In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls. After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Pa ...Show more
The History of Mischief by Rebecca Higgie
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Reading Level: very good
When Jessie and her older sister Kay find a book called The History of Mischief,hidden beneath the floorboards in their grandmother's house, they uncover asecret world. The History chronicles how, since antiquity, mischief-makers haveclandestinely shaped the past - from an Athenian slave to a Polish sal ...Show more
Detention by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Reading Level: 8 Kids Middle Readers
A daring escape. A school lockdown. A thrilling chase. What would you risk to save a life?Share thisSima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one.When they make their escape, a guard ra ...Show more
Cop and Robber by Tristan Bancks
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade
If your mum was a cop and your dad was a crim who needed your help to commit a crime, would you do it to save him? At what cost? Nash Hall's dad is a criminal who just can't seem to go straight. He wants Nash to help him commit a robbery. A big one. The trouble is, Nash's mum is a cop. And the robbery ...Show more
The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate DiCamillo
$24.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Reading Guide 2023
From master storyteller Kate DiCamillo comes an original fairy tale, enchantingly illustrated, in which five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning and high spirits. Once, there was a king. And a wolf. And a girl with a shepherd’s crook. And a boy with a bow and arro ...Show more
The Wild Robot Protects (#3 Wild Robot) by Peter Brown
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Series: The Wild Robot
The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations.Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inh ...Show more
The Book of Answers (Ateban Cipher #2) by A. L. Tait
$14.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Series: The\Ateban Cipher Ser.
An orphan in exile. A band of rebel girls. And a prince whose throne has been stolen. Come on a journey full of danger, intrigue, adventure and incredible secrets. 'The Ateban Cipher,' Lucien continued, 'is also known as the Book of Answers.' 'Answers to what?' Eddie asked. Lucien sighed. 'Everything. I ...Show more
Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Grade | Reading Level: Younger Readers
This coming-of-age story by multiple-award-winner Meg McKinlay is about loss and grief, dealing with change and fighting to hold on to what you can, while letting go of what you can't. It's 1979 and the sky is falling. Skylab, that is. Somewhere high above Frankie Avery, one of the world's first space s ...Show more