Middle Grades Classroom Reads — Alabama AMLE

For the Classroom Library

Click on the images below to learn more about some of our favorite middle grades and young adult reads. As always, be sure to vet all books before placing them on your classroom shelves to ensure that they’re right for your readers. We tend to use School Library Journal reviews and Common Sense Media to guide our picks, and our school library media specialists are always reliable sources for book recs.

Children of Blood and Bone

Children of Blood and Bone

Internment

Booked

The Crossover

Rebound

Speak: The Graphic Novel

Speak: The Graphic Novel

The Benefits of Being an Octopus

The Benefits of Being an Octopus

The Selection

Aru Shah and the End of Time

Aru Shah and the End of Time

New Kid

The Marrow Thieves

The Marrow Thieves

Blended

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer

The Last Last-Day-of-Summer

Refugee

How We Got to Now

How We Got to Now

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

Hey Kiddo

March: Book One

March: Book One

Warcross

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

Merci Suarez Changes Gears

Merci Suarez Changes Gears

Dactyl Hill Squad

Dactyl Hill Squad

Ghost

Long Way Down

Ghost Boys

Amal Unbound

Orbiting Jupiter

Orbiting Jupiter

Bomb

Making Bombs for Hitler

Making Bombs for Hitler

The Bridge Home

The Bridge Home

Other Words for Home

Other Words for Home

My Year in the Middle

My Year in the Middle

Front Desk

I Am Malala

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