Though we read mostly adult books, we here at Books on the Nightstand are fans of kids books, too. Below is a running list of children's and young adult books that we've talked about. Click on the title to go to the blog post or podcast episode where the book was featured. This list will stay "live" and you can always reach it by clicking the "Kids/YA Books" tab at the top of the blog.
We've done a rough sort into age category to make it easier for you to find what you're looking for, but please know that we are not reading specialists and that your definition of "middle grade reader" and "young adult" may vary significantly from ours.
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Picture Books/Beginning Readers
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Duck in the Truck
| Alborough, Jez
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Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
| Barry, Robert
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The Curious Garden
| Brown, Peter
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Snowmen at Christmas
| Buehner, Caralyn
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Snowmen at Night
| Buehner, Caralyn
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Dinotrux
| Gall, Chris
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Bats at the Library
| Lies, Brian
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The Red Lemon
| Staake, Bob
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The Donut Chef
| Staake, Bob
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Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct
| Willems, Mo
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Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
| Willems, Mo
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Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
| Willems, Mo
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Middle Grade Readers
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Sounder
| Armstrong, William
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The Penderwicks (audiobook)
| Birdsall, Jeanne
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Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
| Blume, Judy
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The Tower Treasure (Hardy Boys, Book 1)
| Dixon, Franklin W.
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The Secret of Skull Mountain (Hardy Boys, Book 27)
| Dixon, Franklin W.
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The City of Ember
| DuPrau, JeAnne
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The Thief Lord (audiobook)
| Funke, Cornelia
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The Graveyard Book (audiobook)
| Gaiman, Neil
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Old Yeller
| Gipson, Fred
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Pandora Gets Jealous
| Hennesy, Carolyn
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Tales from the Odyssey #1: One-Eyed Giant, The
| Osborne, Mary Pope
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The 39 Clues (The Maze of Bones, Book 1)
| Riordan, Rick
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The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: (audiobook)
| Riordan, Rick
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The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1)
| Riordan, Rick
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Audiobook)
| Rowling, J.K.
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Holes
| Sachar, Louis
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The 13 Clocks
| Thurber, James
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Young Adult
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Feed
| Anderson, M.T.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
| Alexie, Sherman
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Candor
| Bachorz, Pam
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The Hunger Games
| Collins, Suzanne
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Catching Fire
| Collins, Suzanne
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The Chocolate War
| Cormier, Robert
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
| d'Aulaire, Ingrid
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The Maze Runner
| Dashner, James
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Gone
| Grant, Michael
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
| Haddon, Mark
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire
| Iggulden, Conn
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The Giver
| Lowry, Lois
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Youth in Revolt
| Payne, C.D.
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The Burn Journals
| Runyon, Brent
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
| Ryan, Carrie
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House of Stairs
| Sleator, William
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)
| Spiegelman, Art
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When You Reach Me
| Stead, Rebecca
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Uglies
| Westerfield, Scott
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The Book Thief
| Zusak, Markus
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