A playful mix of adventure, imagination and first big reads
Explore our most popular english children's and middle grade books, ranked by community activity, ratings and reading interest.
Great for families, classrooms and younger fantasy fans If you are looking for adventures, fantasy and stories for younger readers, this category is a strong place to browse next.
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J. K. Rowling
On his eleventh birthday Harry Potter learns that he is a wizard and that his parents did not die in a car crash. At Hogwarts he finds frien... (Automatically generated book description)
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Joanne K. Rowling
Harry fourth year: Hogwarts hosts the Triwizard Tournament and Harry is drawn as a fourth champion despite being too young. The volume in wh... (Automatically generated book description)
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Markus Zusak
Death narrates the story of Liesel, growing up with foster parents in wartime Germany, stealing books and learning to read, while a Jewish m... (Automatically generated book description)
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Raina Telgemeier
Callie loves theatre but cannot sing, so she takes on set design for the school musical. Between scenery, rehearsals and two brothers new to... (Automatically generated book description)
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Neal Shusterman
After a civil war over abortion, a compromise holds: parents may have teenagers between thirteen and eighteen taken apart so that every piec... (Automatically generated book description)
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Terry Pratchett
Tiffany Aching dances with the Wintersmith out of sheer high spirits, and the Wintersmith falls in love. As the world refuses to thaw, the y... (Automatically generated book description)
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Carlo Collodi
A piece of wood becomes a puppet and wants to be a boy of flesh and blood. The Collodi original is markedly harsher than its later adaptatio... (Automatically generated book description)
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Carlo Collodi
A piece of wood becomes a puppet and wants to be a boy of flesh and blood. The Collodi original is markedly harsher than its later adaptatio... (Automatically generated book description)
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M. Martin Ann
Claudia is to be tutored all summer by her strict sister Janine while their grandmother falls ill. A full-colour graphic adaptation of a Bab... (Automatically generated book description)
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Cornelia Funke
Meggie and Mo are read into the book that Capricorn came from, and find themselves in a world whose rules its own author no longer controls.... (Automatically generated book description)
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Jonathan Stroud
In a London where ghosts kill, the investigators are children, because only they can perceive the apparitions. Lockwood and Co. are the smal... (Automatically generated book description)
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Rick Riordan
Third in the Trials of Apollo: the fallen god and Meg search for the next oracle, this time in a burning maze beneath southern California. R... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lincoln Peirce
A volume in the Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce, focused on sport and competition. Nate is a sixth-grader who reliably overestimates himse... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lincoln Peirce
The first Big Nate novel by Lincoln Peirce: Nate gets a fortune cookie promising him greatness, and the school day goes thoroughly wrong fro... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lincoln Peirce
A volume in the Big Nate series by Lincoln Peirce. Nate has to take extra tuition and lands with the one teacher he gets along with least. (Automatically generated book description)
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Kate DiCamillo
Rob keeps his grief for his mother locked away until he finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the motel. Kate DiCamillo writes very sparel... (Automatically generated book description)
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Eoin Colfer
Conor grows up on the Saltee Islands dreaming of flight until a coup lands him in prison as a child. From there he plans something nobody th... (Automatically generated book description)
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Rachel Cohn
Nick asks a stranger to be his girlfriend for five minutes, and out of that comes a night across New York. Rachel Cohn and David Levithan wr... (Automatically generated book description)
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Soman Chainani
The fifth School for Good and Evil novel by Soman Chainani: Agatha and Sophie face a new order in the woods, with a Snake having taken power... (Automatically generated book description)
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Huntley Fitzpatrick
Samantha has watched the loud family next door for years, the one her mother despises, and starts something with one of the sons. A young ad... (Automatically generated book description)
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Nina LaCour
Emi works as a set designer in film and finds a letter in an estate sale that leads her to a young woman. Nina LaCour joins the craft of fil... (Automatically generated book description)
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Cassandra Clare
The second of The Eldest Curses: Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood travel to Shanghai where a lost book surfaces. Cassandra Clare in the world ... (Automatically generated book description)
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Amy Engel
In a city after the war, marriages are assigned, and Ivy is to marry the son of the president, and kill him. The first of a young adult dyst... (Automatically generated book description)
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Henry H. Neff
Max McDaniels finds a painting in a museum that brings him to a hidden school. The first of the Tapestry series by Henry H. Neff, set betwee... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lewis Carroll
A collected edition of the works of Lewis Carroll with the original John Tenniel illustrations: both Alice books, The Hunting of the Snark a... (Automatically generated book description)
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Eoin Colfer
A graphic adaptation of the first Artemis Fowl novel: a twelve-year-old criminal kidnaps a fairy to get at the gold of the underground peopl... (Automatically generated book description)
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Lisa McMann
The grand finale of the Unwanteds series. Alex and Aaron Stowe face the deadliest enemy Quill and Artimé have ever known. (Automatically generated book description)
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Marilyn Burns
A triangle is dissatisfied with itself and keeps asking the shapeshifter for another side. A picture book that teaches geometry along the wa... (Automatically generated book description)
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Ally Carter
The second Embassy Row novel: Grace lives on the embassy grounds of a fictional Mediterranean city and edges closer to a conspiracy that inv... (Automatically generated book description)
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Stuart Gibbs
Ben Ripley, twelve years old and a pupil at a secret spy school, is to expose a double agent on a ski trip. Stuart Gibbs for young readers, ... (Automatically generated book description)
