# Mid-Air

**Author:** Alicia D. Williams
**Grade range:** Grades 5–8
**Age range:** 10–13
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 320
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9781481465830`
**ISBN-10:** `148146583X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/mid-air
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

After his best friend dies, Isaiah is left grieving and adrift, chasing the thrill of parkour while he figures out how to grow up and let go. Alicia D. Williams's novel-in-verse is a tender story about loss, friendship, and Black boyhood. Nominated for the 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award (grades 4-8), the statewide reading list Maine students read from and vote on.

## Themes

- grief
- friendship
- growing up

## Content notes

- death of friend

## Where this book is assigned

### Maine Student Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Maine — [source: 2025-2026 Maine Student Book Award Reading List (grades 4-8)](https://sites.google.com/view/mainestudentbookaward/home)

### Sunshine State Young Readers Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)

### Volunteer State Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)

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