Tier Ranking EVERY Bad (& Amazing!) YA Novel I Read In Middle School!

a wrinkle in time foundational oh my god i love this series to this day it is so good i read it recently like three or four years ago chef's kiss still amazing will blow your mind

i loved this series too in middle school i thought it was so fun

beastly is a beauty and the beast retelling and it is bad i just remember being like a tattoo and it being a beauty and the beast retelling that's all i really got and it was not it was not good

i don't really know where to put this because i don't really want to well you know i would read it again i don't know if i want to read it again but like i feel like i would read this book again and watch that movie with peeta in it but yeah that book destroyed me wow

this is like a mystery novel middle grade story like student detectives tried to solve the day i felt very empowered when i read this because it's always cool to see kids problem solving and like thinking and realizing what's going on before adults did

jace weyland was it for me in seventh grade oh my gosh

this was a great just fantasy story about a girl that i should reread

the last book is esperanza rising which i'm also going to put into the wood read again need to reread i read this early in middle school i got it at the scholastic book fair and i remember really loving it a lot and reading it a lot

i forgot a series of his on here which is the everlast series which i also read the first couple books which i would also put in foundational

it was a bad vampire book i couldn't even tell you what this book is about except i'm pretty sure it has to do with vampires and people living forevermore and falling in love

this is an angel book right because fallen angels i did not like it same reason as hush i think i think it has to do with fallen angels regardless it would be in either of these two categories if it was about vampires i don't even remember but i don't remember liking it at all and i only read the first one in middle school

i loved this book so much don't get me wrong this is not a bad category by any means it's a really strong category and i really want to reread it because i never actually finished the trilogy

this is a story i remember reading and it just kind of like blowing my mind and then there was a period of my life that i wanted to be a writer in sixth grade and i swear to god you know you're just like at a friend's house you're like oh i'm bored let's write a book

halo bad this is an angel love story and as i already said i didn't like angel books that much and also i'm sure if you looked at the reviews of this it's not great either only read the first one wasn't interested did not read more

i read hatchet and i feel like it made me question everything in my life up to that point like i have such distinct memories of reading the scenes in that book of him trying to survive in the wilderness

holes would re-read also want to re-watch that movie with shia labeouf man holes was like political i feel like we all read holes and we're like we know what's up now we know what's up

i feel like a lot of people loved this back then i wasn't really into it i love angels i would either i don't know i feel like people had their preferred paranormal romance tropes and i was i was into like the demons the vampires i was not into the werewolfs or the angels

i am number four hated even as a 13 year old yeah i think i read this right after the hunger games and was like this isn't even close to how good the hunger games was yeah not a good book either

so this is the i love you i if i tell you i'd love you that i have to kill you spy series so i only read these in sixth grade and they were so fun

i remember this book this is set in new york and about a kid running around trying to find a bunch of keys and i think it's a story following kind of loss and grief and that you know i think i remember really enjoying that and that is a worth a reread imo

leviathan by scott westerfeld would read again definitely this was again i read a lot of scott westerfeld in middle school leviathan was a steampunk alternate fantasy story of world war one and it was so cool it blew my mind it had illustrations

next is magic which i'm gonna not put there i'm gonna put in would read again this is on like a very long list of great middle school series that i remember loving and think i would love to this day

i think i only read the first couple in the pc cast series similarly wasn't really my jam didn't particularly like it that much

matched is hated even as a 13 year old this is like a sci-fi marriage novel and i just remember not liking it at all and thinking that the setup was dumb which it probably was

so is peeps by scott westerfeld i read a lot of scott westerfeld and i enjoyed this at the time this was probably my least favorite of his i read and it is a bad vampire book

i don't think the shiver series is particularly good but two as a 13 year old i didn't really love vampire or rather i didn't really love werewolf stories

i think it's a sweet book about being different and embracing differences but i don't i don't really remember

the alchemist i'm going to put into wood read again slash meter reread because this is a series i really have high on my list to do a reread on this is like an alchemist based adventure story that's middle grade

i loved the first couple in this series and then the last back half of the series i don't even know how many there were not good and if you were reading maximum right as it came out i feel like we're all in the same boat there but i kept reading even though i didn't like it anymore because i loved fang so much

i loved this and i want to reread this i don't think i ever finished it because it was publishing throughout middle school and i think the last one came out in high school and i had kind of moved on from reading this at the time but i really remember loving this

dark hills divide also want to reread wow apparently i just want to read a lot of books that i read in middle school so that's something but yeah i loved this series a lot and similarly i feel like this is a middle grade fantasy series that would hold up really well

i'm also going to put spiderwick and walk two moons here as well because honestly this is really making me realize how many books i would love to reread because i remember those books being all so incredible the illustrations in spiderwork were so cool it was such an adventure story

i have read the giver probably like six or seven times and i've read the entire quartet at least two or three times it's so excellent and all the books are so excellent and i just loved it as a kid i loved it as an adult it's just one of the greatest like collection of books i've ever read

this was probably my first major sci-fi read i read a lot of paranormal prior to this and i read this actually in the midst of my like twilight obsession and it just i just have this memory of it being such a contrast to that reading experience

jr tolkien the hobbit foundational for very obvious reasons i love fantasy i loved lord of the rings growing up so much i had a self-portrait that you had to make in fourth grade and i gave myself elf ears

i remember loving this book too i don't really remember much about it which is so sad to me so i'm immediately gonna put that into the need to reread category

the hunger games changed the game and i actually feel like this series would hold up to like of me reading it from like a modern perspective and not as like a 12 13 year old when it came out

next is a secret circle which is a bad vampire book

obviously i love rick riordan i love the percy jackson series i have a whole shelf dedicated to him i loved greek i loved mythology especially then

is this a bad vampire book or is this a bad book huh i don't remember if there's vampires but i it might be need kind of implies that there might be vampires i'm unsure though it's bad though i can guarantee you that i did not like it at all i only read the first one

the midnighters i remember loving so much i know it's not very good and probably something i don't want to reread but it's like was like my favorite series during this time period

i really remember loving the romance within this was like a ghost summoning series i don't think it holds up at all now but i loved it back then and i loved the characters and the romance and their interactions

i have such a deep memory of reading this book so many times i got at the scholastic book fair and it's like a venetian story about kids living in venice being thieves and surviving and i think they live in a movie theater something about this story just really stuck with me and i remember loving it at the time

i would say it's probably her weakest and that i feel like if i reread it i would not like it which is why i'm not going to put that in the need to reread or would reread category

it's not a good book but it was to me at the time everything and my love for edward cullen in middle school knew no bounds which isn't great edward cullen not a good guy but he was my definitive fake boyfriend

that was a series i loved so much i'm actually gonna put uglies and want to reread because i'm curious how that holds up

of unwind is foundational i loved neil shusterman in middle school and to this day so much

i just remember it being very angsty i didn't like the romance i didn't like the relationship i thought it was like troublesome i guess

then walk two moons is a story that i just remember being so impactful to me as a child i don't remember much but this author has written a lot of books that i think are really great

regardless it's not good so i'm just gonna put it in a bad vampire book but it could be about witches so if i'm wrong about that i'm sorry i obviously did not retain a lot from this book which probably speaks a bit to its quality

i read this right after city of bones and i remember being so disappointed because all i wanted was more jace weyland and i got this book that i did not like at all i hated all the characters i thought the romance was bad