NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover | Haltom City Public Library

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 492 week(s).

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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.

2) The gate, the girl, and the dragon

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Lin, Grace

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Stone spirit Ji is stuck in the People's world, but with the help of his new friends Lulu and Worm, he hopes to find a way back home through the Old City Gate before it disappears forever.

3) Impossible creatures

Author

Rundell, Katherine

Series

Impossible creatures volume 1

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 35 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, Playaway

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Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.

4) J vs. K

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Alexander, Kwame

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Two ten-year-olds must decide whether they should join forces to create an unbeatable duo that is sure to win their school's annual creative storytelling contest"-- Provided by publisher.

5) A hero's guide to summer vacation

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Cartaya, Pablo

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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Reality proves more epic than fantasy in this family road trip story starring a reluctant young hero and his curmudgeonly grandfather. Gonzalo Alberto Sánchez García has never considered himself the hero of his own story. He’s an observer, quietly snapshotting landscapes and drawing the creatures he imagines emerging from them. Forced to spend the summer with his estranged grandfather, Alberto William García—the very famous reclusive author—Gonzalo...

6) River of spirits

Author

Targosz, Shana

Series

Underwild volume 1

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 5. It has been on the list for 7 week(s).

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Book, Book on CD

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Senka lives between the realm of the Living and the realm of the Dead. As ward to Charon, the Ferryer of the Underworld, Senka assists in ferrying recently departed souls across the river and into their afterlife. Although Charon has taught her many Rules about life in the Underworld, there is much he avoids telling her. Though she doesn't understand why the Rules are so important, she listens--she must heed them in order to become an official Ferryer,...

7) Refugee

Author

Gratz, Alan

Series

Thorndike Press large print striving reader collection

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 284 week(s).

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Book, eAudiobook, Large Print, Playaway

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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.

8) The trouble with heroes

Author

Messner, Kate

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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Publisher Annotation: Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual...

9) Odder

Author

Applegate, Katherine

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 103 week(s).

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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"-- Provided by publisher

10) Return to sender

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Brosgol, Vera

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-25. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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"Be careful what you wish for… After everything they’ve been through, Oliver and his mom finally have a place to call home. But Oliver’s fresh start feels more like a dead-end at his fancy new private school, where kids fly in on helicopters, wear the latest and most expensive sneakers, and go on luxury vacations. Oliver is only there because his mom’s the school custodian. Oliver wishes his life could be easier. And then one day, after...