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Middle Grade Books About Libraries

We all love libraries! Here are some middle grade reads about books and libraries.

Boston Public Library

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  • "With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored-- until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever…
    UnknownOld Saybrook, Conn. : Tantor Media ; [Prince Frederick, Md.] : [Distributed by] RBdigital, 2020, p2020.
  • Thirteen-year-old Jamie Bunn made a mistake at the end of the school year. A big one. And every kid in her middle school knows all about it. Now she has to spend her summer vacation volunteering at the local library-as punishment. What a…
    eBookHarperCollins, 2019
  • When Kyle learns that the world's most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town's new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he's determined to be there! But the tricky part isn't getting into…
    eBookRandom House Children's Books, 2013
  • For twelve-year-old Emily, the best thing about moving to San Francisco is that it's the home city of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, book publisher and creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger (a game where books are hidden in…
    eBookHenry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2015
  • Something monstrous has been found in the magic world of Wonderland and it wants to get out. Lewis Carroll created a curious and fantastical world in his classic book Alice in Wonderland, but he secretly recorded the true story of his…
    eBookShadow Mountain Publishing, 2020
  • Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
    eBookTriangle Interactive, LLC, 2019
  • When Appleton Elementary's new school board president, Ivana Beprawpa, uses her position to line her own pockets, student sleuths Sara and May, supported by passionate librarian Rita B. Danjerous, seek the truth. Told through letters,…
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, [2020]
  • Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That—along with everything else—changed the day she met her first fairy When Alice's father goes down in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with her uncle Geryon—an uncle she's never heard…
    eBookPenguin Young Readers Group, 2014
  • When twelve-year-old June Harper's parents discover what they deem an inappropriate library book, they take strict parenting to a whole new level. And everything June loves about Dogwood Middle School unravels: librarian Ms. Bradshaw is…
    eBookRandom House Children's Books, 2018