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2025 delivers an outstanding collection of middle grade novels that showcase the incredible depth and diversity of storytelling for young readers.

Each audiobook features a single, intimate narrator, enhancing connection to heartfelt stories about family, mental illness, and disability.

Here’s a list of 30 books (middle grade novels for kids) that we hope you have already read or will hustle to the bookstore and read as soon as possible.

Middle-grade listeners connect with many topics that touch their lives. In this month’s selections, we feature our standout listening recommendations for tweens ages 8 to 12.