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Middle Grade Books for Boys

CLASSICS

Cleary, Beverly. Henry Huggins
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild
McCloskey, Robert. Homer Price
Rawls, Winston. Where the Red Fern Grows
Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver
Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage
Steinbeck, John. The Red Pony
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wojciechowska, Maia. Shadow of a Bull

FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION

Brown, Peter. The Wild Robot (series)
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl (YA-MS) (series)
Collins, Suzanne. Gregor the Overlander (series)
Colville, Bruce. The Monster’s Ring
Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Cosmic
Funke, Cornelia. Dragon Rider
Gaiman, Neil. The Graveyard Book
Haddon, Mark. Boom! (or 70,000 Light Years)
Hamilton, Richard. Cal and the Amazing Anti-Gravity Machine
Jacques, Brian. Redwall (series)
Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth
Law, Ingrid. Scumble (series)
Lowry, Lois. The Giver (YA-MS) (series)
O’Brien, Robert. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Pullman, Philip. I Was a Rat!
Teague, Mark. The Doom Machine: A Novel
White, T.H. The Sword in the Stone
Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Castle in the Attic

HISTORICAL

The Gawgon and the Boy by Lloyd Alexander
Crispin: The Cross of Lead (series) by Avi
Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney
Brooklyn, Bugsy, and Me by Lynea Bowdish
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Great Brain by John Fitzgerald
Salt by Helen Frost
Worth by A. LaFaye
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Dulcimer Boy by Tor Seidler
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin

HUMOR

Auch, Mary Jane. I Was a Third Grade Science Project
Blume, Judy. Double Fudge
Cottrell Boyce, Frank. Millions
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money
Gantos, Jack. Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue
Goscinny, René. Nicholas
Gutman, Dan. The Homework Machine
Korman, Gordon. The 6th Grade Nickname Game
Levy, Dana Alison. The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher (series)
Lowry, Lois. All About Sam (series)
Paulsen, Gary. The Schernoff Discoveries
Rockwell, Thomas. How to Eat Fried Worms
Sachar, Louis. Sideways Stories From Wayside School (series)
Sheinkin, Steve. Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler

MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE

The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas by David Almond
The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
Summer at Forsaken Lake by Michael Beil
The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tunnel of Hugsy Goode by Eleanor Estes
Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms by Lissa Evans
The Giant Rat of Sumatra by Sid Fleischman
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson
A Dog for Life by L.S. Matthews
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (YA-F)
The Lightning Thief (series) by Rick Riordan
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Mysterious Benedict Society (series) by Trenton Lee Stewart

NONFICTION

The Amazing Mr. Franklin, or, The Boy Who Read Everything by Ruth Ashby (92 FRA)
Barbarians! by Steven Kroll (940.1 K)
Beyond: A Solar System Voyage by Michael Benson (523.2 B)
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl (92 DAH)
The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden (031.02 I)
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr by Judith St. George (973.4 S)
Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman (92 HOU)
Exploratopia by Pat Murphy (507 M)
George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas B. Allen (92 WAS)
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine by Sally M. Walker (973.75 W)
Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering by Martin W. Sandler (388 S)
Traitor, The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz (92 ARN)
Treasury of Greek Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes & Monsters by Donna Jo Napoli (292 N)
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson (796.3 N)

REALISTIC FICTION

Lunch Money by Andrew Clements
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (series) by Jack Gantos
The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay
Edward's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
Bird Springs by Carolyn Marsden
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear by Lensey Namioka
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Small Adventures of Popeye and Elvis by Barbara O’Connor
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman by Meg Wolitzer

SPORTS

Owen Foote, Soccer Star by Stephanie Greene
Honus & Me by Dan Gutman 
Two Hot Dogs with Everything by Paul Haven 
The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon Korman
Travel Team by Mike Lupica (YA-F)
Skinnybones by Barbara Park
The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee