Summer Reading 2021: Middle School

Mimi is not thrilled to be spending her summer in Pakistan. Secretly, she wishes to find her long-absent father. The cook’s daughter, Sakina, still hasn’t told her parents that she’ll be accepted to school only if she can improve her English. Although the girls seem totally incompatible at first, Sakina and Mimi realize that they each need the other to get what they want most.
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When Tatang decides that it is time to return to his homeland in the Philippines, Kaia will do anything to convince him not to go.
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This uplifting story about an orphan girl features strong female characters, an adorable dog, and the girl who comes to love him.
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Felicity is sick of always beginning a new school as her mother wanders from place to place. But then their van lands in Midnight Gulch, where once there was magic. Felicity believes it's still there, hiding. (Commonsense Media)
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Eleven-year-old Rigel Harman loves her life in off-the-grid Alaska. But then her parents divorce, and Rigel and her sisters have to move with their mom to the Connecticut suburbs and attend a suburban middle school.
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Lidie finds that moving to another country is a big challenge. Pai and Rafael still think of her as the little girl. But Lidie's determined to befriend, and ride, the spirited filly her father has just bought: Wild Girl.
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In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country.
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At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories... stretching back centuries... are beautiful...and terrifying.
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American movies haven’t quite prepared Jude for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern.”
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It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to the U.S. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila meets a man who won the state lottery, and they rescue a circus elephant named Veda.
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Growing up in Las Vegas with her fun-loving mother, Carley has learned to be tough. But she never expected a betrayal that would land her in a foster care. When she's placed with the Murphys, a lively family with three boys, she's blindsided. Do happy families really exist?
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Efrén worries about his parents; although he’s American-born, his parents are undocumented. His worst nightmare comes true one day when Amá doesn’t return from work and is deported across the border to Tijuana, México. Can he reunite his family?
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Afterr two years in a refugee camp, twelve-year-old Noura is traumatized, but determined to make the best of her new life in Florida. Her classmate Jordyn signs on to help her get settled. As the girls navigate a turbulent world in their middle school and beyond, their growing friendship helps sustain them, as do a lot of helpful adults. (Commonsense Media)
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Perfect for fans of Rain Reign, this middle-grade novel is about a boy with an OCD issue and his move to a reservation to live with his biological mother.
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