By the middle grades young readers often have favorite authors or story types. Librarians are well supplied with "If you like.." ideas that will provide your reader with a long list of possibilities. Below is a sampling of our recommendations. If you don't find what you want, please ask us to help you, in person or online by email. Click here for a print copy of this list.

	OUCH! by Natalie Babbitt			HONUS AND ME by Dan Gutman
In this version of a Grimms' tale, a birthmark heralds a boy's bright future, including marriage to a princess. The fulfillment of the prophecy, however, is not the end of the story.			Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time.

	THE LANDRY NEWS by Andrew Clements			BEETLES, LIGHTLY TOASTED by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.			A boy competes with his know-it-all cousin by creating recipes from unusual food sources and testing them on unaware friends and family

	FANTASTIC FLIGHTS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF FLYING ON THE EDGE by Patrick O'Brien			MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS by Lisa Yee
Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to the space shuttles.			In a series of journal entries, 11 year-old Millicent records her summer struggles to learn volleyball, tutor her enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, and make friends.
Selected by Barbara Bruxvoort, Foster City Library 2004