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Middle Grade Summer Adventures!

School's out! When the St. Louis heat pushes you indoors, when you're resting up from adventures of your own, or if you are simply looking for suggestions to fill those long summer days - check out one of these middle grade summer adventures!

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  • When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
    Book, 2022New York : Scholastic Press, c2022.
  • This summer, Kaia and her friends are part of a creative arts camp, where they're working on a short movie to enter in a contest. The movie is inspired by the Filipino folktales that her beloved Tatang, her great-grandfather, tells. Tatang lives…
    Book, 2020New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2020.
  • Mango is invited to star in Yo, Romeo! in New York City, but must struggle to balance the opportunity of a lifetime with homesickness, insecurity, and staying close to her best friend long-distance.
    Book, 2020New York : Sterling Children's Books, [2020]
  • Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun. Until a mysterious man named…
    Book, 2019Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2019.
  • Twelve-year-old Claire, already fed up with her father's fantastical stories, is outraged when he sells their house and moves her and her little brother into a converted van for an adventure.
    Book, 2020New York : Amulet Books, c2020.
  • Twelve-year-old Lilla wants to make everyone happy, so when her best friend Vivi dares her to start telling the truth as part of their Summer of Brave, Lilla hesitates because if she says out loud what she really wants, her whole life might crash…
    Book, 2021Chicago : Albert Whitman & Company, c2021.
  • In this classic summer tale ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
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  • Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time, until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due…
    Book, 2020New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2020.
  • When ten-year-olds Shirley and Jamila meet, Jamila is simply hoping for a friend in her new neighborhood but Shirley is a detective and together they seek a missing gecko.
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2020.
  • Thirteen-year-old Bina faces her first summer without her best friend, Austin, who has left for soccer camp.
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2018.