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NYTimes Best Sellers: Children's Middle Grade Hardcover

New York Times API Dev Portal, opens in a new windowAuthoritatively ranked lists of books sold in the United States. Find more lists of chart-topping books on our New York Times Best Seller Lists page.

Most links below are to print books; check Overdrive for eBooks. Book covers provided by Syndetics depending on availability.

Find Wonder in LINKcat
#1
507 weeks on the list
by R.J. Palacio | Knopf

A boy with a facial deformity starts school. (Ages 8 to 12)

Find Refugee in LINKcat
#2
298 weeks on the list
by Alan Gratz | Scholastic

Three children in three different conflicts look for safe haven. (Ages 9 to 12)

Find Impossible Creatures in LINKcat
#3
50 weeks on the list
by Katherine Rundell | Knopf

A young boy is enlisted to save a place where magical creatures reside. (Ages 10 and up)

Find Odder in LINKcat
#4
118 weeks on the list
by Katherine Applegate | Feiwel & Friends

After a shark attack, Odder recuperates at the aquarium with the scientists who raised her. (Ages 8 to 12)

Find The Misfits: A Royal Conundrum in LINKcat
#5
26 weeks on the list
by Lisa Yee | Random House

Olive is sent to Reforming Arts School and teams up with a group of crime-fighting outcasts. (Ages 8 to 12)

Find Blood In The Water in LINKcat
#6
8 weeks on the list
by Tiffany D. Jackson | Scholastic

Kaylani McKinnon investigates a mysterious death on Martha’s Vineyard. (Ages 9 to 12)

Find Snoop in LINKcat
#7
8 weeks on the list
by Gordon Korman | Scholastic

Confined and bored at home after a skiing accident, Carter hacks into his town’s police cameras. (Ages 9 to 12)

Find Heroes in LINKcat
#8
67 weeks on the list
by Alan Gratz | Scholastic

The friends Frank and Stanley give a vivid account of the Pearl Harbor attack. (Ages 8 to 12)

Find J Vs. K in LINKcat
#9
8 weeks on the list
by Kwame Alexander and Jerry Craft | Little, Brown

An intense rivalry ensues when two talented fifth graders vie for Dean Ashley Public School’s annual creative storytelling competition. (Ages 8 to 12)

Find Resist in LINKcat
#10
15 weeks on the list
by Alan Gratz | Scholastic

Samira goes on a dangerous mission to save her mother on D-Day. (Ages 9 to 12)