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Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Shea Ernshaw

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

Long Way Down
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2017

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Looking for Alaska
John Green

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Looking for JJ
Anne Cassidy

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Lord of the Flies
William Golding

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1954

Lore
Alexandra Bracken

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Loser
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Lost In The Barrens
Farley Mowat

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Lost in the Pacific 1942
Tod Olson

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Sherri Winston

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Love From A to Z
S. K. Ali

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Love & Gelato
Jenna Evans Welch

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Love, Hate and Other Filters
Samira Ahmed

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Loveless
Alice Oseman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Lovely War
Julie Berry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Love, Ruby Lavender
Deborah Wiles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Love, Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007

Love That Dog
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Lu
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Lucky Broken Girl
Ruth Behar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Lunch Money
Andrew Clements

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Lupita Manana
Patricia Beatty

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1981

Lyddie
Katherine Paterson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Magyk
Angie Sage

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Lisa Yee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Make Lemonade
Virginia Euwer Wolff

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 1993

Make Your Home Among Strangers
Jennine Capó Crucet

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Making Bombs for Hitler
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Mañanaland
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

Mara, Daughter of The Nile
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1953

March: Books 2 & 3
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | YA | Published in 2016

Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Pablo Cartaya

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Marigolds
Eugenia Collier

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1969

Mark of the Thief
Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Mary Jane
Jessica Anya Blau

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2021

Mary Poppins
P.L. Travers

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1934

Masks
Shel Silverstein

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Master Harold and the Boys
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | YA | Published in 1982

Masterminds
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Masterpiece
Elise Broach

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Matched
Ally Condie

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Matilda
Roald Dahl

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Max the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Maya and the Robot
Eve L. Ewing, Illustr. Christine Almeda

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Maybe He Just Likes You
Barbara Dee

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Maybe Someday
Colleen Hoover

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2014

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Measuring Up
Illustr. Ann Xu, Lily LaMotte

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring
Angela Cervantes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Men of Iron
Howard Pyle

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1891

Merci Suárez Changes Gears
Meg Medina

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Messenger
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2004

Mexican WhiteBoy
Matt de la Peña

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Pedro Martín

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Mick Harte Was Here
Barbara Park

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1995

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life
Illustr. Laura Park, Chris Tebbetts, James Patterson

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Midnight at the Electric
Jodi Lynn Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Midnight for Charlie Bone: The Children of the Red King #1
Jenny Nimmo

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2020

Midnight Without a Moon
Linda Williams Jackson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2017

Milkweed
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Million Dollar Throw
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1956

Mississippi Trial, 1955
Chris Crowe

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Misty of Chincoteague
Marguerite Henry

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2010

Momentous Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Monday's Not Coming
Tiffany D. Jackson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Money Hungry
Sharon G. Flake

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

Monster
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Monument 14
Emmy Laybourne

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Moo: A Novel
Sharon Creech

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

More Than This
Patrick Ness

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Morning Girl
Michael Dorris

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1999

Morning Star
Pierce Brown

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2001

Mosquitoland
David Arnold

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Mossflower
Brian Jacques

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1988

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2015

Moxie
Jennifer Mathieu

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics
Chris Grabenstein

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Mr. Mistoffelees
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Poem | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mr. Popper's Penguins
Richard Atwater, Florence Atwater

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1938

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Robert C. O'Brien

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1971

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
Betty MacDonald

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1947

Mr Stink
David Walliams

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2009

Mr. Terupt Falls Again
Rob Buyea

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Ms. Bixby's Last Day
John David Anderson

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2016

Muggie Maggie
Beverly Cleary

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1990

#MurderTrending
Gretchen McNeil

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018