NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 3 week(s).

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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.

2) Wonder

Author

Palacio, R. J

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 462 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.

3) Refugee

Author

Gratz, Alan

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 276 week(s).

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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.

4) When we flew away: a novel of Anne Frank, before the diary

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Hoffman, Alice

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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In May 1940, Anne Frank is a young girl not quite eleven with all the ordinary problems of a little sister, but Amsterdam is about to be invaded by Nazis and after that everything changes.

5) The Sun and the Star

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Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 73 week(s).

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Nico, the son of Hades, and his boyfriend Will, the son of Apollo, travel to Tartarus, the deepest, darkest part of the Underworld, as they attempt to rescue an old friend.

6) Odder

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Applegate, Katherine

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. It has been on the list for 92 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"--

7) The Sherlock society

Author

Ponti, James

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 4 week(s).

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Twelve-year-old Alex Sherlock, his thirteen-year-old sister Zoe, and their friends Lina and Yadi decide to spend their summer in Miami investigating the many "cold cases" their grandfather accumulated during his years as a reporter--first up, Al Capone and a buried treasure.

8) Mouse and his dog

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Applegate, Katherine

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#9 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2024-10-13. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 2 week(s).

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In Dogtown, a shelter for real and robot dogs, Mouse helps his big-hearted but trouble-attracting best friend Buster find a forever home, and embarks on an adventure with Stewie, a misunderstood dog, and Smokey, a malfunctioning robot dog.