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1) Damaged
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 1
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Katie's best friend Callie leaves her for a clique called the Popular Girls Club on the first day of middle school, Katie decides to find a group that she can join.
4) I, funny
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
303 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian, even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from giving Jamie a good pounding every once in awhile.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2020.
Physical Desc
287 p.
Language
English
Description
"The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: "l'�age ingrat" or "The Ugly Age." Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changes-physical, psychological, and social-the middle-school years are a time of great distress for parents and children alike, marked by hurt, isolation, exclusion, competition, anxiety, and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable; there are intrinsic challenges...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
188 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working on a school project about Bolingbroke's supernatural history, best-friend eighth graders Val and Laurie accidentally unleash a demonic presence connected to a series of mysterious tragedies throughout their town's sordid history and must find a way to return things to normal.
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Tokiko's parents break up, she and her father move from the bustling city to a sleepy coastal town to live with her grandmother. Starting sixth grade in a new school where everyone has known each other their whole lives isn't easy. Things start to look up when local boy Yosuke, another outsider, wants to be friends. But then strange memories start to surface. Swimming in the ocean... Drowning... Getting saved by...a merman? Yosuke denies the...
9) Swim team
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--
10) Fighting words
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf--her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet where it counts. Then Suki tries to...
11) Best friends
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
220 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grade is just not Riley's vibe. Everyone else is squaded up--except Riley. Her best friend moved away. All she wants to do is draw, and her grades show it. One thing that makes her happy is her favorite comedian, Joy Powers. Riley loves to watch her old shows and has memorized her best jokes. So when the class is assigned to write letters to people they admire, of course Riley's picking Joy Powers! Things start to look up when a classmate,...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the summer before middle school, eleven-year-old Bug must contend with best friend Moira suddenly caring about clothes, makeup, and boys; a ghost haunting; and the truth about Bug's gender identity.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
258 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Debut author Misty Wilson chronicles her seventh-grade experience as the only girl on her town's football team in this empowering graphic memoir about teamwork, friendship, crushes, and touchdowns"--
16) Honestly Elliott
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Elliott has been struggling since starting middle school, when his ADHD spiraled and his best friend moved away. He's not too sure where he fits in with his own family either, especially since his newly remarried dad and stepmom are expecting a baby. Especially when he already feels like his dad just doesn't get him--or his passion for cooking. In the kitchen, it's actually a good thing to have a brain that goes in six directions at once.
When he's...
17) Free lunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...