June 2, 2026

Middle Grade Books That Hit Harder When You're the Parent Reading Them

Middle Grade Books That Hit Harder When You're the Parent Reading

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Cover of The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot

by Peter Brown

Now a DreamWorks movie available on Prime Video! This #1 New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from a Caldecott Honor winner tells an extraordinary story full of action and thought-provoking questions as a robot learns to survive—and live—in the wilderness. Can a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the island starts to feel like home--until, one day, the robot's mysterious past comes back to haunt her. From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed novel about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Cover of The Magician's Elephant

The Magician's Elephant

by Kate DiCamillo

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

Cover of Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh

by A.A. Milne

Includes: Winnie The Pooh (1926), Now We Are Six (1927), When We Were Very Young (1924) and A Gallery of Children (1925). This set comprises the complete set of original A.A. Milne stories and poems for children with expertly formatted pictures and text. Each chapter includes an audio link allowing you to read and/or listen along as you like with the added convenience of audio annotation. Enjoy this collection of Winnie the Pooh and his adventures with Christopher Robin along with many other A.A Milne children's poems and stories. Now, marking around 100 years since these books were originally released, this collection comprises an unprecedented and complete digital assembly of the famous Winnie the Pooh and A.A. Milne children's book works. Get started reading these books featuring Winnie the Pooh and other stories on your device today.

Cover of The BFG

The BFG

by Roald Dahl

'Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist.' On a dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant. Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant, the BFG, who only eats snozzcumbers and glugs frobscottle. But there are other giants in Giant Country. Fifty foot brutes who gallop far and wide every night to find human beans to eat. Can Sophie and her friend the BFG stop them?

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

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

by E.L. Konigsburg

Claudia and her brother Jamie run away from home and find a place to live in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, then find that they still have a couple of problems to deal with.

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