25 of the best new middle grade novels

These titles are the very best of new middle grade novels released so far this year.

9. 'The War Within These Walls,' by Aline Sax

Originally published in Belgium, this book is both important and relatively unknown in the United States. "The War Within These Walls" is a stark and uncompromising look at the life in the Jewish Warsaw ghetto during World War II. Its bleak black-and-white illustrations enhance the short novel and set it apart from similar fictional accounts of Jewish persecution in Europe under Nazi occupation. (Ages 14 to 17)

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