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Small Spaces
Katherine Arden

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Small Steps
Louis Sachar

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2006

Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
Peg Kehret

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Smile: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Snapdragon
Kat Leyh

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Snow Treasure
Illustr. Mary Reardon, Marie McSwigan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1942

So B. It
Sarah Weeks

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2004

Solar Storms
Linda Hogan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Sold
Patricia McCormick

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2006

Soldiers Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers
Gary Paulsen

Fiction | Novella | YA | Published in 1998

Soldier X
Don L. Wulffson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2003

Solimar: The Sword of the Monarchs
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Solo
Mary Rand Hess, Kwame Alexander

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

Someone Like You
Sarah Dessen

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1998

Someone Named Eva
Joan M. Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Something Like Home
Andrea Beatriz Arango

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2023

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1962

Son
Lois Lowry

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Song for a Whale
Lynne Kelly

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Song of the Hummingbird
Graciela Limón

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1996

Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Son of the Mob
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Sorcery of Thorns
Margaret Rogerson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2019

Sounder
William Armstrong

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1969

Space Case
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2014

Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1986

Specials
Scott Westerfeld

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Spirited Away
Hayao Miyazaki

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | YA | Published in 2002

Splendors and Glooms
Laura Amy Schlitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Spy Camp
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Spy School
Stuart Gibbs

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Squirm
Carl Hiaasen

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Stalking Jack the Ripper
Kerri Maniscalco

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds

Nonfiction | Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stand Tall
Joan Bauer

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2005

Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Jessica Kim

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2020

Stardust
Neil Gaiman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1999

Starfish
Lisa Fipps

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Stargazing
Jen Wang

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2019

Stargirl
Jerry Spinelli

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Starry River of the Sky
Grace Lin

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2012

Starters
Lissa Price

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Stay
Bobbie Pyron

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes
Chris Crutcher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2022

Steelheart
Brandon Sanderson

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Stef Soto, Taco Queen
Jennifer Torres

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

Stella
McCall Hoyle

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Stella by Starlight
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Stella Díaz Has Something to Say
Angela Dominguez

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Stepping on the Cracks
Mary Downing Hahn

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1991

Stolen
Lucy Christopher

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

Stone Cold
Robert Swindells

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1993

Stone Fox
John Reynolds Gardiner

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Stormbreaker
Anthony Horowitz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Storm Runners
Roland Smith

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2010

Stranded
Jeff Probst, Chris Tebbetts

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2017

Strawberry Girl
Lois Lenski

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Street Love
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2006

Stuart Little
E. B. White

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1945

Stuck In Neutral
Terry Trueman

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2000

Stung
Bethany Wiggins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2013

Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Stupid Fast
Geoff Herbach

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2011

Sugar
Jewell Parker Rhodes

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2013

Sugar Changed the World
Marc Aronson, Marina Budhos

Nonfiction | Book | YA | Published in 2010

Summer
Edith Wharton

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1917

Summer Ball
Mike Lupica

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Summerland
Michael Chabon

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2002

Summer of My German Soldier
Bette Greene

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1973

Summer of Riley
Eva Bunting

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2000

Summer of the Mariposas
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Summer of the Monkeys
Wilson Rawls

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1976

Sunny
Jason Reynolds

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Sunny Side Up
Jennifer L. Holm

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2025

Sunrise Over Fallujah
Walter Dean Myers

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2008

Superfudge
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1980

Supergifted
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Surviving the Applewhites
Stephanie S. Tolan

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2002

Swallowing Stones
Joyce Mcdonald

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Swallows and Amazons
Arthur Ransome

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1930

Swami and Friends
R. K. Narayan

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1935

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster
Jonathan Auxier

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2018

Swim Team
Johnnie Christmas

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2022

Swindle
Gordon Korman

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2008

Swing
Mary Rand Hess, Kwame Alexander

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | YA | Published in 2018

Sylvia And Aki
Winifred Conkling

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2011

Symptoms of Being Human
Jeff Garvin

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Take Back the Block
Chrystal D. Giles

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2021

Taking Sides
Gary Soto

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1991

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 1972

Tangerine
Edward Bloor

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1997

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
Ibtisam Barakat

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Middle Grade | Published in 2007

Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Tell Me Three Things
Julie Buxbaum

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Carol Rifka Brunt

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012