Dragons Beware!
10 best books like Dragons Beware! (Jorge Aguirre): Mighty Jack, The Return of Zita the Spacegirl, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, Be Prepared, The Cardboard Kingdom, All's Faire in Middle School, Swing it, Sunny, Compass South, The Stone Heart, The Sand Warrior
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day...
The Return of Zita the Spacegirl
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1596438762 |
Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.
Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she...
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1626722668 |
Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone — carried into another realm by an ogre.
When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy’s captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power...
A gripping and hilarious middle-grade summer camp memoir from the author of Anya's Ghost.
All Vera wants to do is fit in—but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera’s single...
| Author | Chad Sell |
| ISBN | 1524719374 |
Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.
In...
| Author | Victoria Jamieson |
| ISBN | 0525429980 |
The author of Roller Girl is back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.
Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as...
Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.
Not only is the whole middle school thing confusing...
| Author | Hope Larson |
| ISBN | 0374300437 |
It’s 1860 in New York City. When 12-year-old twins Alexander and Cleopatra’s father disappears, they join the Black Hook Gang and are caught by the police pulling off a heist. They agree to reveal the identity of the gang in exchange for tickets to New Orleans. But once there, Alex is shanghaied to...
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1626721599 |
Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself.
To complicate...
| Author | Mark Siegel |
| ISBN | 1101935863 |
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there's more to themselves and more to their worlds than meets the eye. . .
The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter...
| Author | Rob Harrell |
| ISBN | 1603090754 |
In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism.
Each town, that is...except for one.
Unfortunately, for the people...
| Author | Mike Maihack |
| ISBN | 0606370250 |
Cleopatra's space adventure in the REALLY far future continues!
When a mysterious thief steals the ancient sword Cleo recovered in Cleopatra In Space, Book One: Target Practice, Cleo is determined to get it back, but her teachers at Yasiro Academy forbid her from risking her life. Stuck at...
| Author | Ben Clanton |
| ISBN | 1101918713 |
if i'm being honest, this doesn't really stand up to my other five star ratings, even my five star ratings specific to other children's picture books.
but sometimes it's just about what you need at a particular time, and this book brought a goofy smile to my face when i really really...
The Stratford Zoo Midnight Revue Presents Macbeth
| Author | Ian Lendler |
| ISBN | 1596439157 |
The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo... until the gates shut at night. That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart. Also fangs, feathers,...
Hilda and the Stone Forest
| Author | Luke Pearson |
| ISBN | 1909263745 |
Hilda may be grounded, but that won’t stop her from heading off on another daring adventure! But everything is thrown off course when her mother catches her and is dragged along for the ride. Furious with each other, the bickering pair find themselves lost in the land of the trolls, forced to embark...
