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Middle Grade About Being Different – Wonderlit | Wonderlit

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Middle Grade About Being Different

Explore middle grade books about being different for children.

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The Sisters Grimm #1

The Fairy-Tale Detectives

Michael Buckley

Sisters Sabrina and Daphne Grimm move to a town where fairy tales are real and must take up their family legacy to solve

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The Sisters Grimm #2

The Unusual Suspects

Michael Buckley

Sabrina Grimm navigates a world of fairy-tale characters and family secrets as she tries to solve a mystery involving he

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The Path of the Young Goddess

Patricia Monaghan

Global myths of the Wild Girl pair with healing rituals and dream work to help young women create their own meaningful c

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Odder the sea otter loves underwater acrobatics, but a run-in with a great white shark forces her to find a new kind of

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The most fascinating thing you'll learn is how an army of angry Welsh mothers once fought off the French in this hilario

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Amelia Bedelia Shapes Up

Amelia Bedelia gets a second chance at sports during her class mini-Olympics, bringing her signature literal-minded humo

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After exposure to a rare canine virus, Tory and her friends develop superhuman senses that they must use to solve a cold

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The Bad Guys #2

The Bad Guys in Mission Unpluckable

The Bad Guys are on a mission to rescue ten thousand chickens, but the plan hits a snag when one of the heroes realizes

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Heidi Heckelbeck #14

Heidi Heckelbeck Says 'Cheese!'

Heidi Heckelbeck is distraught when her loose tooth falls out right before Student Picture Day. Determined to look perfe

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If You Come Softly #2

Jacqueline Woodson

Miah watches from beyond as his mother, his friends, and his girlfriend Ellie struggle to find a way forward after his t

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Don't Care High

Life at a pathologically apathetic high school gets a massive jolt when a new student begins manipulating the school's s

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #2

The Reptile Room

The Baudelaire orphans move into a room full of reptiles, but the wicked Count Olaf is never far behind in this second u

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Loudest Beagle on the Block

Tui T. Sutherland

Ella wants to shine in the school talent show, but her new dog Trumpet won't stop howling along to every single note of

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The Borrowers #4

The Borrowers Aloft

A tiny family is snatched from their miniature home and trapped in an attic, forcing them to use every ounce of their wi

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Carl Hiaasen's Florida Novels #5

Billy’s summer becomes a wild race across the country involving spy drones, grizzly bears, and a desperate mission to sa

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The Bad Guys #5

Intergalactic Gas

The Bad Guys are heading to space to save the world, but surviving a rocket launch is hard when your teammate eats way t

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Diary of a Minecraft Zombie #23

Zombie wants to play video games and finish eighth grade, but everything changes when he discovers he is actually the Pr

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Queen Ann of Oogaboo joins forces with the clockwork man Tik-Tok to march on the Nome King's cavern and rescue a long-lo

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Diary of a Minecraft Zombie #13

Friday Night Frights

Herobrine is on a mission to destroy Minecraft on Friday the 13th, and only Zombie and his friends can help Steve surviv

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg

Claudia and Jamie run away from home to live inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, turning a famous New York landmark i

Cover of Goes South

Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley heads to Mexico on a high-stakes mission to stop the CIA's most dangerous enemy, the evil o

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Heidi Heckelbeck #4

Heidi Heckelbeck in Disguise

When mean Melanie dresses as a witch for Halloween, real witch Heidi gets angry and plans a magical revenge. But her act

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Goosebumps SlappyWorld

Slappy, Beware!

Slappy the dummy must cause daily chaos or face eternal sleep, but his streak of evil may finally end when he meets a fa

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Life of a Cactus #1

Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Aven was born without arms, but moving to a rundown western theme park brings a new mystery and unexpected friendships t

More Formats for Being Different

Chapter Books(7531)Young Adult(1380)Graphic Novels(597)Picture Books(399)Poetry(155)Early Readers(139)Board Books(7)

Being Different by Age Group

Books for Being Different for Ages 0–3(2070)Books for Being Different for Ages 4–7(8734)