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Middle Grade About Becoming a Big Kid – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Middle Grade About Becoming a Big Kid

Explore middle grade books about becoming a big kid for children.

49 books

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The Cat on the Mat Is Flat #1

The Cat on the Mat Is Flat

Laugh along with nine zany rhyming tales featuring a snack-loving yak named Jack and a very flat cat on a mat.

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Three years of adolescence unfold as a girl caught between her straight-laced school and Portland’s underground music sc

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Schooling Around #2

Pencil of Doom!

Jack's new pencil becomes a source of chaos when a magic trick causes everything it draws to come true—with disastrous a

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Blackberry Farm

The Complete Tales of Blackberry Farm

Jane Pilgrim

For the child who thrives on routine and gentle rhythms, these nostalgic farm animal stories offer a safe, peaceful worl

Ages 3–7

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Smoky, the Cow Horse

A mouse-colored horse journeys from a wild birth on the open range to the high-energy world of the rodeo in this sweepin

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Star Wars: Jedi Academy #9

Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Amy Ignatow

Christina Starspeeder heads to the advanced Jedi Academy campus for a final adventure filled with new friends, doodles,

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The Miller Family #3

Sal's big first day of school is a total disaster—her name tag is wrong, her best friend is in another class, and she tr

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Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1

Wakanda’s essential Heart-Shaped Herbs are dying, and Princess Shuri must leave home on a high-stakes mission to find th

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Junie B. Jones #26

Junie B. Jones: Aloha-ha-ha!

Armed with a new camera and her usual sass, Junie B. heads to Hawaii for a vacation filled with tangled birds and inner

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Diary of a Minecraft Zombie #7

Zombie Family Reunion

Zombie faces his biggest challenge yet: surviving a road trip and a 100th-year reunion filled with his own wild and craz

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Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior #7

Shadow Over Aetheria

Runt and his friends leave Villagetown for the great Aetheria City to prove they have what it takes to be true Minecraft

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Nancy Clancy #1

Nancy Clancy trades her plumes for a magnifying glass to track down a classmate's missing treasure in her first chapter

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The Elixir Fixers #2

Sasha and Puck and the Cordial Cordial

Magic potions and school parties collide when Sasha and Puck try to help a spoiled peer learn the value of being friendl

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Ivy and Bean #5

Bound to Be Bad

Ivy and Bean decide to become the kindest kids in town to attract wild animals, but their quest for goodness somehow lea

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The Flint Future Detectives #1

Mr. Chickee's Funny Money

Christopher Paul Curtis

Armed with the Snoopeeze 9000, Steven and his giant dog outrun Treasury agents to solve the mystery of a bill with fifte

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Artemis Fowl #3

The Eternity Code

Artemis Fowl's final heist goes dangerously wrong, leaving his bodyguard in peril. To save him, Artemis must strike a ba

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Anastasia Krupnik #5

Anastasia on Her Own

Thirteen-year-old Anastasia is certain her organized schedule makes her the master of the house, until her mother leaves

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Ramona Quimby #6

Ramona Quimby, Age 8

Third grade brings big changes for Ramona Quimby as she balances a new school, pesky neighbors, and the pressure of bein

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Ivy and Bean #9

When Bean is told she is too young for camp, she and Ivy start their own better version featuring secret music, creative

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Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books #3

Amelia Bedelia Road Trip!

Everything is taken literally when young Amelia Bedelia hits the road for a family vacation full of silly linguistic mix

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Septimus Heap #5

Septimus and his dragon Spit Fyre race to bring their friends home, only to become stranded on an island full of dangero

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Babymouse: Tales from the Locker #3

Jennifer L. Holm, Matthew Holm

Babymouse is loose in the Big City on an unsupervised middle school field trip, but a plan to ditch the museum might lea

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Geronimo Stilton #49

Surf's Up, Geronimo!

Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton’s dream of a relaxing beach vacation disappears when he checks into a crumbling hotel instead of a luxu

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Amelia Bedelia Chapter Books #4

Amelia Bedelia Goes Wild!

Young Amelia Bedelia brings her signature literal-minded humor to the backyard as she and her friends attempt to build a

More Formats for Becoming a Big Kid

Chapter Books(5166)Picture Books(1182)Early Readers(382)Poetry(160)Graphic Novels(110)Board Books(73)Young Adult(53)

Becoming a Big Kid by Age Group

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