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MCFL Kids: Feel-good fiction

Middle grade novels that illustrate the power of stories to offer comfort, laughter and hope: "make you feel warm inside like a piece of toast with a great deal of butter." (~Kate DiCamillo)

24 items

  • Gr 3-6. #4, The One and Only Ivan stories
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — J Fiction Applegate
  • Gr 4-7
    Graphic NovelPortland, OR : Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC 2024 — J Graphic Novel Olsen
  • Gr 4-6. #2, Coyote Sunrise (sequel to "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise")
    BookNew York : Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, 2024 — J Fiction Gemeinhart
  • Gr 3+.
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2024 — J Fiction DiCamillo
  • Gr 2-4. #4, Ryan Hart
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2023 — J Fiction Watson
  • Gr 3-5. #7, Vanderbeekers
    BookNew York, NY : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023 — J Fiction Glaser
  • Gr 1-4
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — J Fiction Perkins
  • Hope Wins

    a Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers

    Gr 4+. Anthology by favorite middle grade authors
    BookNew York : Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022 — J 810.803 Hope
  • K-Gr 3. #2, Our Friend Called Hedgehog
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022 — J Fiction Castillo
  • Gr 4-6
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press, 2021 — J Fiction Sorosiak
  • Gr 3-6
    BookNew York : Feiwel and Friends, 2021 — J Fiction Applegate
  • Gr 4-6
    Graphic NovelNew York : First Second Book, 2021 — J Graphic Novel Chau
  • Gr 2-5. #1, Skunk and Badger series
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2020 — J Fiction Timberlake
  • Gr 5-8
    BookNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2020] — J Fiction Svetcov