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Ages 8–10

Best books for ages 8–10

Middle-grade adventures and classics.

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The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell

Ages 9–12

Ages 9–9

Lincoln: A Photobiography

Ages 9–12

Ages 8–9

Bone: Out from Boneville

Jeff Smith

Ages 9–14

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The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

Ages 9–12

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The War That Saved My Life

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Ages 9–12

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The Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan

Ages 10–14

Ages 10–14

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis

Ages 9–12

Ages 9–13

The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy

Jeanne Birdsall

Ages 8–12

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

E.L. Konigsburg

Ages 9–12

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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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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne

Ages 10–15

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Boy: Tales of Childhood

Roald Dahl

Ages 10–14

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The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Ages 10–14

Ages 8–12

Ages 10–14

Ages 10–14

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Ages 10–14

Ages 10–14

Ages 10–14

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Peter Sís

Ages 10–14

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