Children's Fiction about Starting Middle School

The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern

Frazzled by Booki Vivat

Awkward by Svetlana Chmakova

Beyond the Laughing Sky by Michelle Cuevas

• Pub Date: 2014
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Science, Research, Outcasts
• Nashville was hatched from an egg and looks like part bird, part boy. 

The Way to Bea by Kat Yeh

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also: Words, In Verse, Only Child 
• As Bea starts middle school (7th grade) things are strained with her best friend. 

You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Divorce, Multiple Narrators, Word Lovers
• Ben's parents tell him they are getting divorced, and Charlotte's dad is in the hospital.