Every December, it’s such a joy to take time to look back over all the books I’ve been privileged to read and review on Scope for Imagination. I’d like to share my favourite books of this year – ones that have challenged me, empowered me, made me laugh, and even made me cry. There have been some truly incredible middle grade books published by a range of publishers.
Not all of these books have been published in 2024 but I’ve had the pleasure of reading them between January and December. Here are 25 great stories everyone needs to read. Which is your favourite?
Click on each title to read my original review:
The Wrong Shoes by Tom Percival (Simon & Schuster)
The Boy in the Suit by James Fox (Scholastic)
Fallout by Lesley Parr (Bloomsbury)
Angel of Grassmere by Tom Palmer (Barrington Stoke)
The Last Boy by Eve McDonnell (Everything with Words)
Bird Boy by Catherine Bruton (Nosy Crow)
Turtle Moon by Hannah Gold (Harper Collins Children’s)
Evenfall: The Golden Linnet by Alexander Armstrong (Farshore)
The Secret of Golden Island by Natasha Farrant (Faber)
The Island at the Edge of Night by Lucy Strange (Chicken House)
Movies Showing Nowhere by Yorick Goldewijk & translated by Laura Watkinson (Pushkin Children’s)
Hide and Seek: A Bletchley Park Mystery by Rhian Tracey (Piccadilly Press)
Mallory Vayle and the Curse of Maggoty Skull by Martin Howard & Pete Williamson (Nosy Crow)
The Great Phoenix of London by Lindsay Galvin (Chicken House)
Gargoyles: Guardians of the Source by Tamsin Mori (Uclan Publishing)
Birdie by J.P. Rose (Andersen Press)
Ettie and the Midnight Pool by Julia Green (David Fickling Books)
The Boy Who Cried Ghost by Ian Eagleton (Scholastic)
Terror Tower by Jennifer Killick (Farshore)
Libby and the Egyptian Escapade by Jo Clarke (Firefly Press)
The Hollywood Kidnap Case by A.M. Howell (Usborne)
North and the Only One by Vashti Hardy (Scholastic)
Time School: We Will Comfort Them by Nikki Young (Storymakers Press)
The Deadsoul Project by Dan Smith (Barrington Stoke)
You can order these books from my list on Bookshop.org:
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