Middle Grade Reads for the Insatiable

Midsummer’s Mayhem

By: Rajani LaRocca
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary fantasy retelling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream?Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad’s a renowned food writer, Mom’s a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It’s easy... Read more

Much Ado about Baseball

By: Rajani LaRocca
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari & Eddie Lopez
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

In this companion novel to Midsummer’s Mayhem, math and baseball combine with savory snacks to cause confusion and calamity in the town of Comity.Twelve-year-old Trish can solve tough math problems and throw a mean fastball. But because of her mom’s new job, she’s now facing a summer trying to make friends all over again in a new town. That... Read more

The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Jennifer Blom & Rob Dircks
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“Such a sweet and charming book! This is a wholesome middle grade book about the importance of books and community, with a charming cat, mice, and not-so-spooky ghosts. I listened to this book on audio through Libro.fm - it would be an excellent book for families to listen to together! Read more

The Windeby Puzzle

History and Story

By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Lois Lowry, Lauren Ezzo & Andrew Gibson
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to survive. In an utterly one-of-a-kind blend of fiction and history, a master storyteller explores the mystery and life of the 2,000-year-old Windeby bog body.Estrild is... Read more

The Parker Inheritance

By: Varian Johnson
Length: 10 hours

“Really, really enjoyed this book! I always love a good puzzle mystery and my heart melts for book-loving preteens. This book was great in that it not only had a fun buried treasure mystery but also friendship evolution between Candice and Brandon, Candice's reckoning with her parent's relationship, and racial tensions in the history as well as... Read more

Snow Treasure

By: Marie McSwigan
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

For 12-year-old Peter Lundstrom, the Norwegian winter of 1940 begins like any other. When he isn't in school, he spends the cold days outside, going sledding in the deep snow of his mountain village. But all around him, the adults are talking about the war that is raging through much of Europe. One day Uncle Victor warns that German soldiers... Read more

Echo

By: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Bramhall & David de Vries
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“The best use of the audio medium bar none! Echo follows the notes of a harmonica through the lives of several people, showing how something even as small as this instrument acts as a catalyst for each of them. The audio is so magical because it plays the music described in the book! Read more

Too Bright to See

By: Kyle Lukoff
Narrated by: Jax Jackson & Kyle Lukoff
Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

“This spooky and thoughtful book follows Bug, a soon to be middle schooler. How do you handle your uncle’s death when he’s still haunting your house, and when he seems to have a message for you? How can you “be you” when you don’t know what that means yet? Read more

The Saturdays

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Meet the Melendys!

Mona, the eldest, is thirteen. She has decided to become an actress and can recite poetry at the drop of a hat. Rush is twelve and a bit mischievous. Miranda is ten and a half. She loves dancing and painting pictures. Oliver is the youngest. At six, he is a calm and thoughtful person. They all live with their father, who is a... Read more

The Four-Story Mistake

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Following up on the classic children’s novel The Saturdays, Elizabeth Enright continues the engaging tale of the Melendys family—Mona, Rush, Randy, Oliver, Father, and Cuffy, the housekeeper—and their move from an old brownstone in New York City to a charming house in the country.

Called the Four-Story Mistake for its odd look and confused... Read more

Then There Were Five

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Come meet the four Melendy kids—Mona, Rush, Randy and Oliver!

With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anythin might happen to the Melendy kids left behind at the Four-Story Mistake. In the Melendy family, adventures are inevitable: Mr. Titus and the catfish; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's... Read more

Spiderweb For Two: A Melendy Maze

By: Elizabeth Enright
Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Come meet the four Melendy kids—Mona, Rush, Randy and Oliver!

Randy and Oliver Melendy awake one morning full of gloom. Their brothers and sisters are away, the house seems forlorn and empty, and even Cuffy, their adored housekeeper, can’t pick up their spirits. Will they have to face a long and lonely winter? But a surprise message in the... Read more

The Children of Green Knowe

By: L.M. Boston
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. There are three children: Toby, who rides the majestic horse Feste; his mischievous little sister, Linnet; and their brother, Alexander, who plays the flute. The... Read more

The River At Green Knowe

By: L.M. Boston
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this, the third book, Tolly and his grandmother are away (presumably in Cornwall). Two women have rented the house for the summer and ask three children to stay.... Read more

A Stranger At Green Knowe

By: L.M. Boston
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. In this volume, a strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the... Read more

An Enemy At Green Knowe

By: L.M. Boston
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. The fifth book in the series finally brings together our two main protagonists: the house's blood relative Tolly and the Chinese refugee Ping, both of whom have... Read more

The Stones of Green Knowe

By: L.M. Boston
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century. This is the sixth book in this classic series. While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden... Read more

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

Vanderbeekers: Book #1

By: Karina Yan Glaser
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they... Read more

The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden

Vanderbeekers: Book #2

By: Karina Yan Glaser
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Return to Harlem's "wildly entertaining" family in this funny, heartwarming sequel. When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer.... Read more

The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue

Vanderbeekers: Book #3

By: Karina Yan Glaser
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

NYT Bestselling series! Harlem's favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series, wherein the Vanderbeeker kids find themselves racing to save their mother's baking business from city closure. Illustrated with delightful black and white illustrations. For the Vanderbeeker kids of Harlem's 141st Street, spring break... Read more