Diverse Middle Grade

Juvenile fiction titles with diverse characters and themes. Recommended for grade 4 and above.

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Book cover for "Five things about Ava Andrews"
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5 stars
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"Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesn't talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition. Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Ava's Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about...
Book cover for "Honestly Elliott"
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3 stars
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Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
Book cover for "Insignificant events in the life of a cactus"
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4.6 stars
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New friends and a mystery help Aden, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.

4. Linked

Book cover for "Linked"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
Book cover for "The remarkable journey of Coyote Sunrise"
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Series:
Coyote Sunrise volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Book cover for "Stand up, Yumi Chung!"
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4 stars
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When eleven-year-old Yumi Chung stumbles into a kids' comedy camp she is mistaken for another student, so she decides to play the part.
Book cover for "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street"
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Series:
Vanderbeekers volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
Description:
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.