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Ages 11–13

Best books for ages 11–13

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The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane

Russell Freedman

Ages 10–14

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

Ages 9–12

The School for Good and Evil

The School for Good and Evil

Ages 10–14

The Lunar Chronicles: Cinder

Ages 12–16

The Wild Robot

Ages 8–12

The False Prince (The Ascendance Series, Book 1)

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Ages 11–15

Ages 12–16

One Crazy Summer

One Crazy Summer

Rita Williams-Garcia

Ages 9–12

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

Siena Cherson Siegel

Ages 8–12

Bone: Out from Boneville

Ages 9–14

Out of the Dust

Out of the Dust

Ages 11–14

Rosa Parks: My Story

Ages 10–14

A Monster Calls

A Monster Calls

Ages 12–16

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

Ages 12–18

Who Could That Be at This Hour? (All the Wrong Questions, No. 1)

Ages 9–12

The Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

Ages 12–18

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club

Ages 12–18

The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum

Candace Fleming

Ages 10–14

The Arrival

Ages 10–99

The Chronicles of Prydain: The Book of Three

Lloyd Alexander

Ages 9–13

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

Ages 9–12

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

Ages 12–16

Catherine, Called Birdy

Catherine, Called Birdy

Ages 12–15

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ages 10–14

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