More new middle grade fiction Fall 2025
I have SOOO many books to read. My TBR pile is tragically large. Thank goodness I'm retired so I can devote my time to reading! Here are two of my newest favorites. The first one is a science fiction tale by Rebecca Stead called "The Experiment". Nathan is a pretty regular sixth grader with a best friend named Victor, except for one teensy little thing-Nathan and his parents come from another planet. For the most part, Nathan's life is like everyone else's-but there are a few eccentricities like how his mom weighs all of his food (and subtracts the things he doesn't eat), she keeps a log book with data about their life, they have Zoom meetings with other alien families and their kids, and then there's the pink toothpaste that Nathan has to brush with 5 times a day. But some weird things have been happening. Some of the kids have disappeared from the Zoom meeting without an explanation and now Nathan is growing a tail. A furry, orange...