NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover

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#1 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 1. It has been on the list for 491 week(s).

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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his clasassmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

2) Impossible creatures

Author

Rundell, Katherine

Series

Impossible creatures volume 1

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#2 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 34 week(s).

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Christopher discovers the Archipelago, a world where mythological creatures were secreted away by magic long ago, but those creatures are now dying, and it is up to Christopher and Mal, a girl from the Archipelago, to save both of their worlds.

3) The Trouble With Heroes

Author

Messner, Kate

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#3 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 1 week(s).

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An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!

Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.
One summer.
46 mountain peaks.
A second chance to make things right.
Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two...

4) The complete cookbook for young chefs

Series

Young Chefs

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#4 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 247 week(s).

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"For the first time ever, America's Test Kitchen is bringing their scientific know-how, rigorous testing, and hands-on learning to KIDS in the kitchen! Using kid-tested and approved recipes, America's Test Kitchen has created THE cookbook every kid chef needs on their shelf. Whether you're cooking for yourself, your friends, or your family, The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs has delicious recipes that will wow!"--Publisher's description.

5) River of spirits

Author

Targosz, Shana

Series

Underwild volume 1

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#5 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 3. It has been on the list for 6 week(s).

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"Senka lives between the realm of the Living and the realm of the Dead. As ward to Charon, the Ferryer of the Underworld, Senka assists in ferrying recently departed souls across the river and into their afterlife. Although Charon has taught her many Rules about life in the Underworld, there is much he avoids telling her. Though she doesn't understand why the Rules are so important, she listens--she must heed them in order to become an official Ferryer,...

6) The cursed campground

Series

FGTeev campfire tales volume 1

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#6 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 8 week(s).

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"It is a dark and stormy night, and the FGTeeV family is headed out to the woods for some old-fashioned, unplugged together time. But all is not as it seems at the cabin Duddy rented... strange mysteries are afoot. BIG-afoot. Yep, the craziness all starts when Duddz accidentally summons Bigfoot to the campground. Before they know what's going on, vampires, mummies, sea monsters, and more are all hot on their tails! Will Moomy, Duddy, Lexi, Mike, Chase,...

7) Odder

Author

Applegate, Katherine

Series

Playaway Kids

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#7 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 102 week(s).

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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"-- Provided by publisher

8) Heroes: a novel of Pearl Harbor

Author

Gratz, Alan

Series

Thorndike Press youth large print middle reader

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#8 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. It has been on the list for 56 week(s).

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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...

9) Resist: a story of D-Day

Author

Gratz, Alan

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#10 on the Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover list for 2025-05-18. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 9 week(s).

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"When French-Algerian Samira's mother is arrested by the Nazis, Samira must go on a journey through Nazi-occupied France to save her before it is too late...on the same day as D-Day"-- Provided by publisher.