Must-Read Books for Middle Readers (9-12 Years)

The pre-teen years are often the time when children fall in love with reading and develop more specific reading sensibilities. Our list of middle grade books and novels for 9 to 12-year-olds is the perfect stepping stone, the gateway your child needs to enter the astonishing world of books! Browse below:

Goal! Shot! Run!: Short Biographies Of Sportspersons

Goal, Shot, Run! is a collection of illustrated biographies of sportspeople from all over the world. From cricket to hockey, tennis to football and even the Olympics, it’s time to learn more about your favourite sports superstars, and maybe even discover some new ones!

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Inside India: Amazing Historical Places by FunOKPlease

The second in the Inside India series, join Indy and Dia on a super exciting and fun tour of India’s amazing historical places and discover unknown details about the famous monuments and sites you’ve already heard of. This activity book will help you navigate India’s rich and mind-boggling map of historical wonders through engaging activities.

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Inside India: Festivals and Celebrations presented by FunOKPlease

This activity book will help you navigate India’s colourful festival calendar through engaging activities like word searches, crossword puzzles, number games, recipes, art and craft and much more.

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Bloom by Nicola Skinner

A beautifully written, incredibly original and wickedly funny novel for readers of 10 and older – Bloom is for everyone who has ever felt like they didn’t fit in, and for anyone who has ever wanted a little more colour and wildness in their lives

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Sacked by Deepa Agarwal

A charming collection of folktales, retold in a lively, contemporary style by Deepa Agarwal. There’s humour, adventure and amazing flights of fantasy in these stories, and the quirky illustrations just add to the charm!

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The M Series: Magical Tales by Shashi Warrier

Many years ago, the Lord of All Magic, fed up with the intrusion of humans into the lives of magical beings, withdrew to a continent in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that he hid, by magical means, from the sight of all humans outside. As the two tales from the hidden continent show, life with magical creatures can never be dull…

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Inside India: Fascinating Food by FunOKPlease

Fascinating Food is the third book in the Inside India series. Join Indy and Dia on a mouth-watering, tummy-rumbling and fun tour of India’s culinary landscape. This activity book will take you through India’s various food delights through engaging activities.

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Mensa Train Your Brain: Mind-Melting Conundrums by Mensa

This book is full of marvellous, mind-melting puzzles for kids to enjoy. A true puzzler’s paradise, the book contains 96 pages of puzzles. It is split into three levels of difficulty – Level A is Super Brain, Level B is Mega Mind and Level C is Ultra Genius. The different types of puzzles included will test a wide range of puzzle solving skills.

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Mensa Train Your Brain: Perplexing Puzzles by Mensa

In another edition of the Mensa Train Your Brain series, kids will have fun putting their brain to the test and seeing how many puzzles they can work out correctly. As the cherry on top, the answers to all the puzzles are provided at the book of the book!

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Storm by Nicola Skinner

The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed Bloom.

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Mensa Train Your Brain: Brain-Scrambling Challenges by Mensa

The book contains a wide variety of different types of challenges, including numerical, logical and word puzzles, that will test all areas of puzzle solving. The best part? All answers to the tests can be found at the back of the book!

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Mensa Train Your Brain: Cranium Crunchers by Mensa

The book contains 96 puzzle-packed pages. It is split into three levels of difficulty, called Super Brain, Mega Mind and Ultra Genius. The levels get considerably harder as the book progresses and as kids improve their puzzle skills, and all answers can be found at the back of it.

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Starfell: Willow Moss and the Lost Day by Dominique Valente, illustrated by Sarah Warburton

The most spellbinding new children’s fantasy series of 2019, with beautiful black-and-white inside illustrations by Sarah Warburton. Perfect for fans of Cressida Cowell and Nevermoor.

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The Mystery Of The School On Fire: The SMS Detective Agency Series by Ravi Subramaniam

In this first mystery in the newly-launched SMS Detective Agency series by master storyteller and writer of bestselling thrillers, Ravi Subramanian, the SMS gang solves the perplexing case of how and why their school catches fire, not once but twice!

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The Adventures Of Padma and a Blue Dinosaur by Vaishali Shroff

In an exciting mix of non-fiction and fiction, this book contains curious facts and insights about dinosaurs discovered in India, including a colourful map of India indicating where dinosaurs have been discovered and illustrated fact sheets about them, inputs from renowned palaeontologists, and an interview with the Dinosaur Princess of India, Aaliya Sultana Babi.

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Starfell: Willow Moss and the Forgotten Tale by Dominique Valente, illustrated by Sarah Warburton

The anticipated second book in 2019’s breakout magical fantasy series, Starfell, starring misfit witch Willow Moss, whose magical ability seems broken.

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Dabbang Dadi by David Walliams

David Walliams’ hilarious Gangsta Granny is here in translation! If young Ben had known that his grandma had plotted to steal the Crown Jewels all her life – that she was a Dabang Dadi – he wouldn’t have thought she was the most boring grandma ever.

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Happy Holidays

The Kid Who Came From Space by Ross Welford

The stunning new 10+ story from the bestselling and award-winning author of Time Travelling with a Hamster, for anyone who loved the humour of Wall-E, the action of Star Wars and the deeply touching emotion of ET.

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The M Series: Monster Tales by Cornelia Funke

A furry red monster called Ruffleclaw moves in with a family of humans after he tires of eating bugs and living under the tool-shed! Read this charming monster tale from Cornelia Funke, the internationally renowned children’s author of the Inkheart trilogy and several other bestselling books and series.

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Sriman Badbu by David Walliams

David Walliams’ much-loved middle-grade novel, Mr Stink, now in Hindi. Come, join Chloe and Shriman Badbu on their adventures! When it looks like he might be driven out of town, Chloe decides to hide Mr Stink in the garden shed. Now Chloe’s got to make sure no one finds out her secret. And speaking of secrets, there just might be more to Mr Stink than meets the eye… or the nose.

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Stories Of Courage & Valour by Soundar Chitra

From popular Indian legends to tales from across the world, these are stories about extraordinary young men and women who fought for what they believed in, whether it was love, loyalty or fairness.

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Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis (Box Set)

This special box set of titles 1 to7 is filled with epic battles, fantastical creatures, perilous adventures and dangerous quests, as well as fiendish villains and unforgettable acts of love, bravery and betrayal.

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The 1,000-Year-Old Boy by Ross Welford

The astonishing, beautiful new story for all readers of 10 and over from the bestselling and Costa-shortlisted author of Time Travelling with a Hamster.

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