I recently got back into reading middle grade books because they're usually a quick read. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for good ones to read. I also read a lot of young adult fiction and I'm always looking for recommendations for them too.

I must recommend an old childhood favorite: Redwall. They're young adult chapter books, set in the Middle Ages, very anthropomorphized. They're a couple hundred pages a piece, maybe 400 at the most, good for lugging around and a fun read.

, thanks for the recommendation. I've never heard of them so I'll check them out.

I hope you enjoy them. c:

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is a really good retelling of The Jungle Book.

Also, if you haven't read anything by him already though I honestly doubt you haven't, Rick Riordan is a goldmine for preteen books except maybe for the end of the Egyptian series.... not my fav!

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series is entertaining too!

I thought Neil Gaiman only wrote for adults, I'll have to check him out.

My favorite recent middle grade book has to be The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby. It's the first of a series and the rest of the series hasn't been published yet, so if waiting isn't your thing this is a terrible rec, but I loooooved the steampunk New York atmosphere and Westing Game-esque puzzle. Also just fabulous writing -- another book by the same author, Bone Gap, is another of my favs (this one is YA). Also anything Laini Taylor has written is fantastic. My fav is her current series that starts with Strange the Dreamer (the next installment comes out like next month or November or something soon-ish) but her previous series Daughter of Smoke and Bone is great too. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, SIX OF CROWS BY LEIGH BARDUGO HOW WAS THAT NOT FIRST, okay I really mostly have YA recommendations. I definitely should read more middle grade as someone studying to be a children's librarian lol.

I didn't get nearly as deep into them as my two best friends did in middle school, but I have fond memories of the Warriors book series. The ones about the cats who live in clans in the woods. I've heard there's a movie in the works, so they might bear revisiting. There are a ton of different series and sidestories now, but I just read the first six.

I loved warriors as a kid. I'm afraid to reread them in case they don't hold up to what I remember.

My favorite books while in middle school were Animorphs, and they still are pretty much my favorite books. That's about some middle-schoolers who get entrusted with this alien power to turn into animals, and they have to use this power to fight another species of alien that's invading Earth. It's really 90's and the editing/writing gets sloppy at the midpoint of the series, but I think the ending is worth it. It's not hard to find them free to download.

Alongside that I pretty much have to recommend the GONE series by Michael Grant (who also wrote some Animorphs). It's young adult reading but it's real dark and will take all your emotions and slam them in the teeth. It's about some kids in a town- all the adults disappear, they can't leave the town, and some of them develop powers. They have to learn to survive, and not kill each other.

The girl who owned a city. I read it in the 4th grade ( long long ago) and I have always loved it

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