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For Middle Guys

A Series of Unfortunate Events
by Lemony Snicket

The Baseball Card Adventure Series
by Dan Gutman

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

Sideways Stories from Wayside School
by Louis Sachar
 
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
edited by Alvin Schwartz

Maze; Far North
by Will Hobbs

Bunnicula
by James Howe

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl

The Day My Butt Went Psycho
by Andy Griffiths

This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
by Gordon Korman

Maniac McGee
by Jerry Spinelli

Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days
by Stephen Manes

The Spiderwick Chronicles
by Holly Black

The Jumping Tree; Finding Our Way
by Rene Saldana Jr.

Harry Potter books
by J.K. Rowling

Tangerine
by Edward Bloor

The Beast
by Walter Dean Myers

October Sky
by Homer Hickam

Brian’s Winter; The River; Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

Nothing But The Truth; Poppy
by Avi

My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George

The Giver
by Lois Lowry

Skellig; Kit’s Wilderness
by David Almond

Artemis Fowl books
by Eoin Colfer

Smugglers, and Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence

The Alex Rider books
by Anthony Horowitz

Joey Pigza books

by Jack Gantos

Merlin books
by T.A. Barron

Tuck Everlasting

by Natalie Babbit

The Moves Make the Man
by
Bruce Brooks

Chicago
by Richard Peck

The Tripod Trilogy
by John Christopher

Frindle
by Andrew Clements

Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
by Bruce Coville

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

Among the Hidden
by Margaret Haddix

Unreal; Undone
by Paul Jennings

Island Boyz
by Graham Salisbury

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

Touching Spirit Bear
by Ben Mikaelsen

Silverwing; Sunwing; Firewing

by Ken Oppel

The Last Book in the Universe

by Rodman Philbrick

Cirque du Freak books

by Darren Shan

Eagle of the Ninth

by Rosemary Sutcliffe