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3) Turtle boy
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Language
English
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Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older boy in the hospital, leads to a friendship that is life-changing for both them and those around them.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Sixth grader Abigail, assigned a different homeroom than her two best friends and made only the alternate on the pom-pom squad, learns a lot about popularity and true friendship when paired with unpopular Gabby for a year-long "Friendly Letter Assignment."
5) Ungifted
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English
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
6) Bluefish
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
8) 33 minutes
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as small, skinny seventh-grader Sam's former best friend--now a popular athlete--promises to beat Sam up at recess in exactly thirty-three minutes.
9) Planet Tad
Author
Series
Planet Tad volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Tad navigates a year filled with girl problems, school antics, and the worst summer job in history, all told in the form of hilarious, illustrated blog entries"--
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Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--
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Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Language
English
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When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
14) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Language
English
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When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
15) Dress coded
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English
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"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion."--
Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top when she had to keep her sweatshirt wrapped around her waist. Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Jessica was pulled over by the principal, missed a math quiz, and her teacher gave her an F. Molly starts a podcast protesting...
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Language
English
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10 to Try for Kids-Makes You Laugh
10 to Try for Kids-Page to Screen
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
10 to Try for Kids-Page to Screen
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
Description
It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. The hazards of growing up before you're ready are uniquely revealed through words and drawings as Greg records them in his diary.
17) Wonder
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English
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#OwnVoices - Latinx Books for Kids
10 to Try for Kids-Page to Screen
Be Thankful - ages 8 to 12
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10 to Try for Kids-Page to Screen
Be Thankful - ages 8 to 12
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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English
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When thirteen-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends with Sophie, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at least.
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