Books for Middle Grade Witches
Enter my favorite book genre: fantasy, but more specifically...witch books! Enjoy this collection of enchanting and spellbinding tales, perfect for when you're feeling wild and a little witchy.
The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag
Aster's family has magic. For generations, boys have learned to shapeshift while girls learned witchcraft. But Aster can't shapeshift no matter how hard he tries, and he's truly happy when spying on the girls' magic lessons. Aster knows that there has been one witch boy in the past...but that he turned into a monster and was banished from the family. During a shapeshifting ritual, however, the other boys start to go missing, and Aster knows he can help them with magic. But is it worth it to risk becoming an outcast in his own home?
Book one of the Witch Boy trilogy, which also includes The Hidden Witch and The Midwinter Witch.
In one evening, Mup's world is flipped around.
Her Aunty dies, and as she departs, the raggedy witches that she always warned Mup about--and whose queen happens to be Mup's mam's mam--come and steal Mup's dad away. Mup, her mam, and her brother, Tipper, have to leave the mundane world to rescue Mup's dad. And though the Witch's Borough, the world's magic half, is beautiful and shining and full of magic, Mup isn't sure she likes it. Mam acts differently here as her past is dragged to the surface. As Mup's grandmother's witches fight against Mup's family and the wild magic people of the Borough, finding and saving Mup's dad may be even more challenging than it seemed.
Book one of the Wild Magic Trilogy, which also includes The Littl Grey Girl and The Promise Witch.
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Sunny Nwazue doesn't fit in anywhere; as an albino, she sticks out in her home in Nigeria. She can't even really enjoy playing soccer, as the sun is harsh on her pale skin. But when she discovers that she is a "free agent," a person with magic powers, she also discovers a community of witches where she can finally belong.
But the world of magic isn't simple. There's a dangerous criminal on the loose, one who knows magic and uses it to hurt people. Sunny and her new friends are tasked with tracking down this criminal before it's too late. Sunny just entered the world of magic--will her newfound powers, and those of her friends, be enough to save the day?
The first book in the Nsibidi Scripts series, which includes Akata Witch, Akata Warrior, and Akata Woman.
Kiki’s Delivery Service by Eiko Kadono
On every witch's thirteenth birthday, they set off into the world to find their place. Kiki, a budding witch, is eager to embark on her coming-of-age journey. So with her faithful sidekick, Jiji the cat, Kiki flies off towards the sea to explore the world for herself. But making friends in her new town is harder than Kiki expected. Will she be able to prove herself to the village?
The book that inspired the Studio Ghibli film!
The Okay Witch by Emma Steinkellner
Moth Hush loves everything witch. So when she finds out that her mom is a witch and she is too, Moth is absolutely thrilled. She soon figures out that magic isn't as simple as it looks, however. Moth's mother has been hiding from a tumultuous past, and it turns out that Founder's Bluff, the sleepy, East Coast town where Moth lives, is the site of centuries-old witch hunts. Because of this, Moth's mother refuses to teach her any magic, so Moth resorts to reading her mother's secret and also magic diary to explore the magical world, with the help of a reincarnated talking cat. And the mayor of Founder's Bluff, a direct descendant of the witch hunters of the pilgrim days, is on their trail. Moth must balance her mother's past and her own future to become the kind of witch she wants to be.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
Every year, the youngest baby in the Protectorate is given to the legendary evil witch of the forest as a pacification. Every year, the witch, Xan, gently takes the baby and brings it across the forest, feeding it starlight, to the other cities where welcoming families adopt it and give it a home.
Luna is one of these babies. But Xan, when reaching for starlight on that fated night, catches up some moonlight instead, and unintentionally infuses the baby with magic.
Xan can't bring this magical child to the families on the other side of the forest. They wouldn't know what to do with her. So she raises Luna with the help of the Swamp Monster and Fyrian, a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. But as Luna's power grows stronger, her true mother pines for her in the Protectorate's Tower, and an Elder-in-training from the town plots to kill the witch and thus free his town from the yearly sacrifice, many stories entwine themselves to bring about the end of Luna and Xan's story.
Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse
When the foster care system dumps Effie on her two elderly aunts' doorstep, she expects boredom. What she does not expect is two old ladies who practice acupuncture and may be hiding something big. When Effie discovers that her two aunts are, in fact, witches, and that she might have magic too, crazy things start to happen--a cursed pop star shows up in Effie's kitchen, a snake slithers right out of a painting to terrorize the school, and Effie makes some real friends. This could turn out to be the best thing that's ever happened to her.
Check out the sequel, Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?! and keep an eye out for the third in the series, Witches of Brooklyn: S'more Magic, coming out in September!
Lilla the Accidental Witch by Eleanor Crewes
While shy Lilla is spending the summer with her aunt in Italy, she discovers something that unlocks magic powers within her. Her aunt tells her that she has the magic of Strega, a magic that is passed down. Lilla encounters the mysterious Stregamama, who offers to help her with her magic...but Lilla's aunt definitely doesn't trust Stregamama, and Lilla is faced with a difficult choice. On top of that, Lilla is falling for someone...but not the boy everyone expects her to. Will she be ready to return home when the time comes?
Snapdragon by Kat Leyh
When Snap meets Jacks, the "town witch," she finds not a witch, but an eccentric old woman who has an online business selling roadkill skeletons. And she also finds a friend. Snap and Jacks make a deal: Snap will help Jacks with her work, and Jacks will help Snap take care of a family of rescued opossums. But as Snap learns more about Jacks, she realizes that maybe all those rumors about Jacks being a witch had something to them. But more importantly, Jacks is hiding something in her past--something that connects to Snap's own family.
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
Marya Lupu has lived all of her life in the shadow of her brother, Luka, who everyone says is destined to become a sorcerer, one of the magical elite who protect Illyria from the evil Dread. In Illyria, girls don't have many places to fill, and Marya's mother has just about given up turning Marya into the nice young lady who can someday be a gift to society.
But when the sorcerers come to judge whether Luka has the magical talent required to join their ranks, Marya makes a big mistake, the consequences of which will send her down a path she could never have imagined. She is sent to Dragomir Academy, a school high in the mountains where troubled girls go to learn how to be good. Marya is suddenly surrounded by classmates who, like herself, have been instructed never to talk about their pasts.
When a sorcerer arrives at the school, and strange things start happening to the other girls, Marya and her classmates discover things about Dragomir Academy, magic, and the Dread that could get them into a lot of trouble if they tell someone--but more trouble if they don't.
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
When Amari discovers a mysterious briefcase in her brother's closet, with a nomination to try out for summer camp at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she knows this is the key to finding out where her brother went. She never stopped believing he was alive, even when everyone else did. First, though, she has to compete for a spot at this supernatural summer camp--and get used to the idea of fairies, spirits, and magicians.
But the first tryout reveals that Amari is much more powerful than she or anyone else could have imagined. This turns her classmates against her as she struggles through the difficult trials of the camp. And with an evil magician on the loose, and the supernatural world in confusion, Amari never loses her determination to find her brother...even when things get a little more complicated than ever.
Look out for the sequel, Amari and the Great Game, coming out at the end of August!
Hooky, Vol. 1 by Míriam Bonatre Tur
A series of mistakes, including missing the bus to magic school, lead twin witches Dani and Dorian to find a temporary home with Master Pendragon, a renowned fortune teller. Meanwhile, they've accidentally made themselves traitors to the rest of witchkind--though being witches suddenly gets a lot more complicated, as they discover that the people they call family are plotting something big.
With the help of an orphan boy, Nico, and a runaway princess, Monica, Dani and Dorian may be able to figure out how to stop the other witches before it's too late.
Volume 2 is coming out in September!
Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange
The six Fernsby sisters spend their days working on their father's farm, with their father's obsession with the Curse of the Six Daughters controlling their lives--especially that the eldest, Grace, who is to be married off by next spring. But the sisters find their joy in each other, and in their Grammy, whose secret stash of forbidden books gives the girls dreams of the world beyond the small marsh village where they live. When the mysterious Full Moon Fayre arrives in town, Willa, Grace, and Freya anticipate a rare night of revelry--but when Grace disappears the morning after the Fayre, Willa goes after her, beginning a journey of peril through the murky waters of the Lost Marsh. If she wants to save her sister, and the rest of her family, she will have to face not only the dangers of the mire, but her own father and village as well...
Healer and Witch by Nancy Werlin
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