Middle Grade Fiction

Anything But Typical
Neil Armstrong is My Uncle
Born to Fly
Strawberry Hill
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters
The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z
The Purloined Boy (DNF)
My Life in Pink and Green
The Conch Bearer
A Finder's Magic
The Beef Princess of Practical County
Rules
Faith, Hope and Ivy June
Ariel's Journey (DNF)
Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
Little House in the Big Woods
Dreamdark: Silksinger
When You Reach Me
The Adventures of Charley Darwin
Darkwood
Shug
11 Birthdays
The Sisters Grimm: The Everafter War
Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
The Talented Clementine
Forever Rose (reread)
Clementine
Whales on Stilts!
Magickeepers: The Eternal Hourglass
The Year the Swallows Came Early
Ranger's Apprentice: The Burning Bridge
The Ordinary Princess
Doc Wilde and The Frogs of Doom
The Amaranth Enchantment
The Last Olympian
The Lucky Ones (DNF)
The Farwalker's Quest
Nim's Island
Inkdeath (DNF)
Caddy Ever After
Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan
Permanent Rose
To Catch a Mermaid
The Trouble Begins at 8
The Book of Nonsense (DNF)
The Graveyard Book
The Adventures of Boone Barnaby
Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles
The Dragonfly Pool
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Skeleton Creek
Indigo's Star
Chains
The Underneath
Saffy's Angel
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Leanin' Dog
Skulduggery Pleasant
Wild Magic
Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors

2008:
Yellow Star
Diamond of Drury Lane
Bringing the Boy Home
Shooting the Moon
The Boy Who Dared
Anna Smudge: Professional Shrink
The Girl Who Could Fly
Thank You, Lucky Stars
My Cousin, the Alien
A Thousand Never Evers
Alvin Ho
Chancey of the Maury River
Little Audrey
Steinbeck's Ghost
My Fair Godmother
The London Eye Mystery
Little Leap Forward
Every Soul a Star
Savvy and Daisy Dawson is on Her Way!
No Cream Puffs
The Walls of Cartagena
Clementine's Letters and Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Writing Thank-you Notes
Eleven and The Trouble With Rules
Masterpiece
The Island of Mad Scientists
Forever Rose
Radiant Girl
Ellie McDoodle: New Kid in School
Tennyson
Jimmy's Stars
The Gollywhopper Games
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Dragon Flight
Diamond Willow
42 Miles
Coraline
Just So Stories
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Millicent Min Girl Genius
The Exiles in Love
The Exiles
The Sisters Grimm: Tales from the Hood
Jee's Bones
The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
the mysterious edge of the heroic world
Ever
The Sisters Grimm: Magic and Other Misdemeanors
Out of the Wild
Airman
The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Into the Wild
So B. It
The Sisters Grimm: The Problem Child
The Willoughbys
The Life and Crimes of Bernetta Wallflower
A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects
The Scarlet Stockings
Candyfloss
Dragon Slippers
The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives
Pandora Gets Jealous
The Fire of Ares
Matilda
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little

2007:
Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Remembering Mrs. Rossi
Peter Pan
Gilda Joyce Psychic Investigator
The White Giraffe
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Miss Spitfire
Elijah of Buxton
The Secret of Castle Cant
Eggs
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Birchbark House
The Titan's Curse
Warrior Girl
The Secret Garden
Caddie Woodlawn
The Sea of Monsters
The Search for Delicious
The Higher Power of Lucky
The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle
Fairest
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Eight Cousins
Treasure Island
Victory

2006:
The Trees Kneel at Christmas
Small Steps
Chasing Vermeer
Peter and the Starcatchers
The Lightening Thief
Black Beauty
Ida B
Princess Academy
The Penderwicks
Inkspell
The Cuckoo Tree

2005:
Inkheart
I Was a Rat!
The Princess, the Crone and the Dung-Cart Knight
Ballet Shoes
Mandy
Becoming Naomi Leon
The Year of the Hangman
Half Magic
Boston Jane: Wilderness Days and Boston Jane: The Claim
Parvana's Journey
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Ashes of Roses
The Breadwinner
Boston Jane: An Adventure
Mary, Bloody Mary and Doomed Queen Anne
Once Upon a Marigold
Quest for a Maid
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and me, Elizabeth
Fish
The Moorchild
Dealing with Dragons
Messenger
Everything on a Waffle
Passager, Hobby, Merlin


Newbery Medal (1922 to 1980)
Newbery Medal (1980 to Present)

Potpourri: The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963, The Wish List, The Thief Lord, The Islander

Boy Books: Indian in the Cupboard, Artemis Fowl (1 and 2), Point Blank, Stormbreak, The Hobbit

Girl Books: Anne of Green Gables, All-of-a-Kind Family, Understood Betsy, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Because of Winn Dixie, Esperanza Rising,

Women Writers: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Catherine Called Birdy, Rodzina, Chasing Redbird, Dave at Night, Two Princesses of Bamarre, Enchanted Castle, The Railway Children, Five Children and It

Other Good Middle Grade books: The Blue Sword, Bridge to Terebithia, Harry Potter (1-3), The Dark is Rising Series, The BFG, Ella Enchanted

Ones you couldn't pay me to re-read (probably): National Velvet, The Witches, Skeleton Key, The Tail of Emily Windsnap, The Wish, Story Girl, Fair Weather, Dream Soul