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Ages 11–13

Best books for ages 11–13

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Ages 10–99

Ages 13–17

Case Closed, Vol. 1: The Mouri Kogoro Files

Gosho Aoyama

Ages 12–16

Caution

Strong violence

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler

James Cross Giblin

Ages 12–16

Safe

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

Ages 10–14

Safe

The Search for WondLa

Tony DiTerlizzi

Ages 10–14

Caution

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Avi

Ages 11–15

Caution

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary E. Pearson

Ages 13–17

Safe

Nothing But the Truth

Avi

Ages 12–15

Safe

Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Ages 10–14

Ages 13–17

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin

Roseanne A. Brown

Ages 13–17

Safe

An Enchantment of Ravens

Margaret Rogerson

Ages 13–17

Safe

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

Phillip Hoose

Ages 12–18

Safe

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

Candace Fleming

Ages 10–14

Safe

The Hero and the Crown

Ages 12–18

Ages 13–18

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia

Esther Hautzig

Ages 12–16

Safe

Heartstopper: Volume 1

Alice Oseman

Ages 13–18

Caution

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Ages 12–16

Ages 12–16

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

John Grisham

Ages 10–14

Caution

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., Book 1)

Jonathan Stroud

Ages 11–15

Safe

The Queen's Thief: The Thief

Megan Whalen Turner

Ages 11–15

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