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Wednesday, 29 January 2020

KBR's Top Junior and Middle Fiction and Non-fiction of the Last 20 Years

KBR is celebrating 2020 with recommendations of our top titles from the last 20 years. There have been so many fabulous books published over this time, we could include many more than you see here. However, these are some of the KBR team's favourites (in no particular order). We hope you enjoy them, too. 

You can also read our list of top picture book titles here, and top young adult titles here.


So Feral! by JA Mawter

Once by Morris Gleitzman (read our review here)

Max Remy Super Spy series by Deborah Abela (read our review here)

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (read our review here)

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech


The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe (read our review here)

Paper Planes by Allayne L Webster

Tintinnabula by Margo Lanagan (read our review here)


The Thing About Oliver by Deborah Kelly (read our review here)

The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (read our review here)

The Stella Montgomery series by Judith Rossell (read our reviews here)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

The Endsister by Penni Russon (read our review here) 

The Art of Racing in the Rain Gareth Stein