# Middle Grade Fiction books about perseverance

**4** middle grade fiction books that explore perseverance, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction  ·  **Theme:** perseverance
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## Middle Grade Fiction perseverance reading list

- [Control Freaks](https://readinglist.school/book/control-freaks) by J.E. Thomas _(Grades 6–8 · pub 2023)_
- [Operation Final Notice](https://readinglist.school/book/operation-final-notice) by Matthew Landis _(Grades 4–8 · pub 2022)_
- [Rascal](https://readinglist.school/book/rascal) by Sterling North _(Grades 5–8 · pub 1963)_
- [Summer of the Monkeys](https://readinglist.school/book/summer-of-the-monkeys) by Wilson Rawls _(Grades 4–7 · pub 1976)_

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