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A Brush with Magic
by Flora Ahn
During her first trip to Korea, 12-year-old Yumi discovers a magical ink brush in her grandfather's attic which inadvertently summons a dokkaebi, a creature from Korean fairy tales, and embarks on an adventure through Seoul while navigating newfound powers and the consequences of her magic.
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Grow up, Luchy Zapata
by Alexandra Alessandri
Starting the sixth grade with her two BFFs, Cami and Mateo, Luchy is excited until Cami makes new ''cool'' friends who are mean and think Luchy and Mateo are too immature to be around, prompting Luchy to help Cami remember how special their friendship is.
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J vs. K
by Kwame Alexander
Two 10-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.
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The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts
by Alex Bell
Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment.
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Reasons to Look at the Night Sky
by Danielle Daniel
Eleven-year-old Luna knows everything there is to know about space and dreams of one day becoming an astronaut, but she begins to see the world differently when a substitute teacher enters her orbit.
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The Super-Secret Mission to the Center of the Moon (Pie)
by Melissa De la Cruz
Edwin Edgefield and the rest of his alien-on-earth crew are ready to learn all they can about their home planet. Unfortunately, that planet has been destroyed, and the one person who can help them find out where they came from—Maureen (yuck)—has no intention of helping.
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The Green Kingdom
by Cornelia Funke
Twelve-year-old Caspia hates big cities so she isn't thrilled that her parents are taking her to Brooklyn for the summer. But everything changes when Caspia discovers a bundle of letters written by a blind girl many years ago. Each letter contains a 'green' riddle, with clues leading to a different plant. As Caspia sets out to solve the riddles, she meets friends she could never have imagined and finds that sometimes you can put down roots where you least expect it.
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Ain't It Funny
by Margaret Gurevich
When her father moves out to pursue his stand-up comedy dreams, 11-year-old Maya, with her anxiety and germaphobia at an all-time high, decides to perform in the school talent show to prove to her parents that comedy has a place in ALL their lives.
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Lion of the Sky
by Ritu Hemnani
In this historical novel-in-verse, 12-year-old Raj and his family are forced to flee their home after the British Partition of India. After suffering devastating losses, he must summon the courage to survive the brutal upheaval of both his country and his heart.
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The First State of Being
by Erin Entrada Kelly
When a teenage boy appears out of nowhere in 1999, claiming he's the world's first time-traveler and has a book outlining the events of the next 20 years, 12-year-old Michael wants to get his hands on the book and must decide how far he's willing to go to do so.
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Code Name Kingfisher
by Liz Kessler
While helping her father empty her beloved grandmother's house, 13-year-old Liv finds an old chest that reveals Oma's involvement in the Dutch resistance during WWII and learns what it means to be brave and go above and beyond to offer someone else a life of dignity, happiness, and freedom.
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Faker
by Gordon Korman
Trey knows the drill: His dad gets him into a school full of kids with rich parents. Trey makes friends, and his dad makes connections. Soon, there's the con, where Trey's dad suckers the other parents into investing in one of his schemes. Once the money's in the bank, Trey, his sister, and their dad are on the run... until they set up somewhere else and start again. Trey is starting to get tired of running... and lying... and never having a friend for longer than a few months. But how do you get your family to stop lying when your lives depend on it?
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Sona and the Golden Beasts
by Rajani LaRocca
Discovering an orphaned wolf pup she believes is related to the five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Hunter has been killing one by one, Sona embarks on an epic adventure during which she realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts, and the future of Devia, is in her hands.
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The Secret Library
by Kekla Magoon
Finding a mysterious letter from her late Grandpa, Dally is led straight to a library of secrets where each book is a portal to a precise moment in time, and she must find the courage to write her own life story as she “checks out” adventure after adventure.
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Jojo vs. Middle School
by Joy McCullough
Despite her careful planning, 11-year-old Jojo's first day of middle school unravels after an outfit mishap caused by her cat-fluencer stepdad's new kitten. As she tries hiding her embarrassment, she finds solace in new friends.
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Maple's Theory of Fun
by Kate McMillan
When her best friend, Sunny, accuses her of being unfun and starts hanging out with a new group of friends, science-minded sixth grader Maple McNutt decides to become fun by doing some risky and groundbreaking research to save their friendship of 7.2 years.
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It Happened to Anna
by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Haunted all her life by a vengeful ghost, Sadie goes to a new school after the ghost kills her best friend, where a mysterious girl, whom the ghost doesn't bother, wants Sadie all to herself—and will do anything to make sure it stays that way.
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The Trouble with Heroes
by Kate Messner
Finn Connelly is nothing like his hero dad, a firefighter who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, Finn's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber. Her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer: she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing -- he has to bring along the dead woman's dog.
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The Playmakers
by Chad Morris
After being cut from the middle school basketball team, 12-year-old Jax forms his own team with an unlikely group of students who want to prove themselves to the whole school.
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Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody
by Patrick Ness
When the principal makes them hall monitors, lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia question what it means to be a hero. The school has become a war zone due to a bully who doubles as an international supervillain in this clever reptilian take on surviving middle school.
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Out of the Valley of Horses
by Wendy Orr
Living in the valley of horses, her family's safe haven, Honey discovers when her father becomes ill that there's a magic which prevents them from ever leaving and must discover a way to escape the valley to find help from a world she only knows through stories.
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The Sherlock Society
by James Ponti
Starting a detective agency instead of spending the summer babysitting, mowing lawns, or cleaning, siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock team up with their retired reporter grandfather to solve cold cases. One case involves a long-lost treasure supposedly hidden near the Everglades that is linked to famed gangster Al Capone.
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The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls
by Judith Rossell
Maggie, an orphan, is sent to the dreary Midwatch Institute, which is actually a secret training ground for young girls learning skills to fight crime. She and her new friends learn useful lessons, uncover a city mystery, and work together to solve it.
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It Came from the Trees
by Ally Russell
Jenna, determined to save her best friend Reese, who was taken by a creature unlike anything she's ever seen, joins a new local scout troop and ventures into the woods. There, the unthinkable happens, and they must band together to fight the monster and survive the night.
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The Underdogs of Upson Downs
by Craig Silvey
When a greedy landowner threatens her family's farm, Annie Shearer enters Runt, her super-fast dog, into the Agility Course Grand Championship in London. There's only one hitch: Runt will only obey her commands if nobody else is watching.
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Opal Watson: Private Eye
by Brittany Thurman
Twelve-year-old African American Opal investigates the disturbances in her apartment building that are interfering with the vital renovations.
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Majestica
by Sarah Tolcser
A maid-in-training at Majestica, a resort and nature preserve where visitors come face-to-face with rare magical flora and fauna, Hattie must join the owner's haughty niece on the park's famous wilderness train excursion. When the expedition goes horribly wrong, they must stick together to survive.
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A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall
by Jasmine Warga
When he encounters a floating girl who resembles the girl in a stolen painting, Rami becomes determined to solve the mystery. He teams up with a classmate and a turtle named Agatha to look for clues.
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Wish Monster
by J. A. White
From the acclaimed author of Nightbooks comes another spine-chilling middle grade horror novel about a pair of friends who discover a cave-dwelling creature that can make any wish come true—including bringing the dead back to life.
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Farrah Noorzad and the Ring of Fate
by Deeba Zargapur
When a birthday wish gone wrong traps her father in a magical ring, 12-year-old Farrah discovers she's half-jinn and her father is one of the seven great jinn kings. She must find a way to navigate the mysteries and dangers of her new world to set things right.
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Elmhurst Public Library 125 S Prospect Ave. Elmhurst, Illinois 60126 (630) 279-8696
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