Here’s a list of 2024 middle grade fiction books that I’ve read or partially read and do NOT recommend, for various reasons, mostly because they contain gratuitous and unhelpful sexual references, lies about gender and sexuality, crude language and/or just bad writing:

• Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston
• The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon
• A Game of Noctis by Deva Fagan
• Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell
• Unstuck by Barbara Dee
• Keep It Like a Secret by John David Anderson
• The Wrong Way Home by Kate O’Shaughnessy
• The Misunderstandings of Charity Brown by Elizabeth Laird
• Jamie by L.D. Lapinski
• Gooseberry by Robin Gow
• Linus and Etta Could Use a Win by Caroline Huntoon
• Murray Out of Water by Tracy Taylor
• Crushing It by Erin Becker
• The Truth About Triangles by Michael Leali
• Puzzleheart by Jenn Reese