Jennifer Chan is Not Alone by Tae Keller

Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn’t seem to apply. Jennifer doesn’t care about the laws of middle school … Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer’s journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run … and face the truth within herself.

Falling Short by Ernesto Cisneros

Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.

The Last Kids on Earth #8: The Last Kids on Earth and the Forbidden Fortress by Max Brallier

Picking up after Quint and Dirk’s Hero Quest, the Last Kids are happily reunited–but quickly faced with a monstrous new mission. Inside an other-dimensional fortress, the evil Thrull, alongside a vile new villain, is carrying out a sinister plan. Jack, Quint, June and Dirk must make their own plans to infiltrate the stronghold before Thrull gets any closer to completing the mysterious Tower, a structure that could ultimately spell doom for this dimension.

In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.

In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents’ divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.

11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan—named for his hero, the real-life astronomer. All he wants is to launch his golden iPod into space the way Carl Sagan (the man, not the dog) launched his Golden Record on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977.

After Tyler’s father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers.

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family’s power was hidden around the world, in the form of 39 clues? What if you were given a choice – take a million dollars and walk away … or get the first clue? If you’re Amy and Dan Cahill, you take the clue – and begin a very dangerous race.

Milo is bored, bored, bored. He’s too bored to do anything. When a mysterious tollbooth appears in his bedroom Milo picks up his toy car, pays the toll and drives it on through… to another world! In this magical new world Milo meets all kinds of creatures who are anything but dull. Setting out his exciting and dangerous journey Milo doesn’t have time to be bored anymore.

Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life — until Soviet officers invade her home and tear her family apart. Separated from her father and forced onto a crowded train, Lina, her mother, and her young brother make their way to a Siberian work camp, where they are forced to fight for their lives.

Esperanza has a wonderful life, with all the treasures a girl could want, fancy dresses, servants, a grand estate. Esperanza is destined to be the mistress of it all when a tragedy strikes and her father dies. Forced to flee to California with her mother Esperanza’s new life couldn’t be more different from the one she left behind in Mexico. The challenge of hard work and poverty are one thing, but Esperanza’s toughest task is letting go of the past and facing up to her new future in America.

Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story. Raina can’t wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren’t quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she’s also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn’t improve much over the years. But when a baby brother enters the picture, and later, when something doesn’t seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.

When Babe is little he’s taken in by Farmer Hogget’s sheepdog, Fly. Babe adores his foster mom and wants only to follow in her footsteps and be the best sheepdog there is. There’s just one problem, Babe is a pig. Just how is a pig going to become the best sheepdog ever?

Ten year old Opal adopts a big, ugly, lovable dog named Winn-Dixie after he’s abandoned at a local store. Winn-Dixie helps Opal make new friends in the strange new town her and her father have just moved to. More importantly, because of Winn-Dixie Opal finds a way to talk to her father and find out more about the mother she hasn’t seen since she was three years old.