Top Ten Tuesday: Middle Grade Books Guaranteed to Make You Ugly Cry
I have one young lady who I have known since I started at the library eight years ago, she LOVED to read funny picture books for years, even as she grew up and was perfectly capable of reading chapter books – she LOVED funny picture books, so much so, that I ran out of suggestions for her.
Fast forward a couple of years, now she’s the kid to who I hand every “crying” book. She loves them all! I’m not always a huge fan of crying through a book, because they’re usually breaking my heart as I read them, but she just absolutely adores them. I think that sometimes middle school kids have so many emotions that they don’t know what to do with and by reading these books, you can get in a good therapeutic cry and feel better. So without further ado, my list of middle grade books that you need a box of tissues to read.
- Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles
- Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
- A Dog Called Homeless by Sarah Lean
- One for the Murphys by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- Pax by Sara Pennypacker
- Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Wish Girl by Nikki Loftin
- The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
- The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
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