Middle Grade | Santa Barbara Public Library

1) Middle Grade: Non-Fiction That "Feels" Like a Story

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Take a deep dive into a true story about history, an amazing person, or scientific discoveries.

2) Middle Grade: Scary Stories

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Chills and thrills for ages 9-12

3) Middle Grade: Survival & Natural Disasters

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Embark into fiction that places humans facing real or imagined cataclysmic events. Travel with them as their stories of mental and physical survival unfold. Includes some non-fiction and a few picture books about true events that will engage "older" readers.

4) Middle Grade: Adventure

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Books that inspire the spirit of adventure. Meant for ages 9-12.

5) Middle Grade: Graphic Novels

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Graphic novels perfect for ages 9-12. Graphic novels are a form of reading that encourage children to assess color, facial expressions, and pair vocabulary words with a visual image of the word used in a statement. It challenges the reader to further explore plot structure and character development over multiple books or in a single stand alone story.