Middle grade
Every middle grade author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Middle grade is written for younger readers, with real adventure and heart and nothing that talks down to them. The series here run first book to last.
Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American novelist whose fiction draws on the small-town Connecticut landscape where he grew up. Born and...
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Amber Smith
Amber Smith writes young adult and middle grade novels that explore themes of mental health, gendered violence, and LGBTQIA+ equality....
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Chanel Miller
Chanel Miller is an American writer and artist who brought her story to the world with Know My Name, a...
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a British writer who works across children's literature and adult fiction, with roots in poetry and...
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Jessica Townsend
What happens when a cursed girl is given a second chance? Jessica Townsend answered that question with Nevermoor: The Trials...
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Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty is an American author who writes mystery-thriller novels for young readers, most set against the lush and shadowy...
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Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead is an American author of children’s novels. She grew up in New York City, developing an early love...
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Xiran Jay Zhao
Xiran Jay Zhao is a Chinese-Canadian author and YouTuber who writes science fiction and fantasy shaped by their Hui Chinese...
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Jeanne Birdsall
Jeanne Birdsall is an American author best known for The Penderwicks series of books. She grew up outside of Philadelphia...
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Tiffany McDaniel
The heat shimmers off the Ohio landscape in Tiffany McDaniel's fiction, where Cherokee heritage and small-town America collide in stories...
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Jordan Ifueko
Jordan Ifueko is a Nigerian-American author who writes YA fantasy novels and has also written for Disney-Marvel comics. Her writing...
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Jenny Lee
Jenny Lee is an author and television writer who made her young adult debut with Anna K: A Love Story,...
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Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Catherine Gilbert Murdock is an American author who writes young adult novels, best known for her Dairy Queen series. She...
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Lara Williamson
Lara Williamson is a children's author who brings a magazine editor's eye for emotion and detail to her middle-grade fiction....
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Julie C. Dao
Julie C. Dao is a Vietnamese-American fantasy writer who reimagines classic tales through a lens that centers underrepresented voices and...
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Jerel Law
Jerel Law is an American author and pastor who writes young adult fantasy novels with a focus on faith and...
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Chris Bachelder
Chris Bachelder is an American author of fiction whose work arrives with a sharp, satirical edge that cuts through the...
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Blake Charlton
Blake Charlton is an American novelist who writes science fiction and fantasy while practicing as a physician, balancing the precision...
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Andrew Eliopulos
Andrew Eliopulos is an American author and editor of middle-grade and YA fiction. He made his debut as a novelist...
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Harriet Whitehorn
Harriet Whitehorn is a British author who writes children's mystery novels, best known for her Violet series. She made her...
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Kate A. Boorman
Kate A. Boorman writes speculative fiction novels and made her debut in 2014 with the novel Winterkill. She was born...
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Amy Makechnie
Amy Makechnie is an American author who writes novels for young readers. She made her debut in 2018 with The...
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Jon Berkeley
Jon Berkeley is an Irish author and illustrator who writes children's fiction after spending twenty years working as a freelance...
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Christopher Swiedler
Christopher Swiedler is an American author who made his debut in 2020 with In The Red, stepping into the literary...
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Micah Good
Micah Good is an American author of YA novels who began writing in middle school. She won a Watty Award...
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