Best Books for Ages 9-12 in 2023

The Final Year: CLiPPA Award-Winning Verse Novel for Ages 10...

by Matt Goodfellow

You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From U...

by Skalietska, Yeva

Impossible Creatures: 'There was Tolkien, there is Pullman a...

by Rundell, Katherine

The Rescue of Ravenwood: Children's Book of the Year, Sunday...

by Farrant, Natasha

Where The River Takes Us: Sunday Times Children's Book of th...

by Parr, Lesley

Stolen History: The truth about the British Empire and how i...

by Sanghera, Sathnam

What You Need to Be Warm: Neil Gaiman

by Gaiman, Neil

The Song Walker: The Sunday Times Children's Book of the Wee...

by Bethell, Zillah

Safiyyah's War

by Khan, Hiba Noor

My Life on Fire: The Times Children's Book of the Week

by Cath Howe

Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy

by Thomas, Angie

Deadly Deep: New for 2023, a funny, scary, sci-fi thriller f...

by Killick, Jennifer

Steady For This: the laugh-out-loud and award-winning teen n...

by Lessore, Nathanael

Story of Now: Let's Talk about the British Empire

by Janmohamed, Shelina, Greenan, Laura

Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer

by Boakye, Jeffrey

Nightjar: (Dyslexia-friendly)

by Katya Balen, Richard Johnson

The Detention Detectives (The Detention Detectives, Book 1):...

by Jardine, Lis

Stuntboy, In Between Time (Stuntboy Book #2)

by Jason Reynolds, Raúl The Third

Away With Words

by Cameron, Sophie

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir: WINNER OF THE WEEK JUNIOR GRAPHIC...

by Martin, Pedro

Finding Bear: An irresistible animal adventure – the unmissa...

by Gold, Hannah

The Piano at the Station: Shortlisted for the Little Rebels ...

by Helen Rutter, Elisa Paganelli

Ravencave: A Times Children’s Book of the Week (Dyslexia-fri...

by Marcus Sedgwick

The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere: Kingdoms...

by Jaclyn Moriarty, Dorje Swallow, Rebecca Norfolk, Recorded Books

Sunshine Simpson Cooks Up a Storm: The Times Children's Book...

by Linton, G.M., Takashi, Fuuji

Kicked Out: A Boy, Everywhere story

by Dassu, A. M.

Finally Seen

by Kelly Yang

Rosie Raja: Mission to Cairo

by Ahmed, Sufiya

My Especially Weird Week with Tess: THE TIMES CHILDREN'S BOO...

by Woltz, Anna, Colmer, David

Old Gods New Tricks

by Moraes, Thiago de

Once Upon a Legend: a blockbuster adventure from the author ...

by Miller, Ben, Paganelli, Elisa

Bertie and the Alien Chicken: A hilarious sci-fi friendship ...

by Jenny Pearson, Aleksei Bitskoff

Bigg School: Best Friends Forever

by Williamson, Lisa

Monster in the Woods

by Shelton, Dave

Wendington Jones and The Missing Tree

by Daniel Dockery

Chews Your Own Tasty Adventure

by Pathmanathan, Sai, Vinti, Lucia

Jacko

by Willis, Jeanne

Brilliant Black British History

by Atinuke, Nebechi, Kingsley

The Legend of Ghastly Jack Crowheart

by Schauer, Loretta

Saving Neverland: A magical adventure for ages 8+

by Elphinstone, Abi, Rodriguez, Geraldine

Man-Man and the Tree of Memories (The Zephyr Collection, you...

by Badoe, Yaba

Island of Whispers

by Hardinge, Frances, Gravett, Emily

Little Sure Shot

by Ralphs, Matt

Girls: The stunning new novel from the Women’s Prize longlis...

by Capes, Kirsty