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John David Anderson - Walden Pond Press
Format: Hardcover
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With multiple starred reviews, don't miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixby's Last Day.In middle school, words... |
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The Thing About Jellyfish
Ali Benjamin - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This stunning debut novel about grief and wonder was an instant New York Times bestseller and captured widespread critical acclaim, including selection as a 2015 National Book Award finalist! Oddlot Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to The Thing About Jellyfish, with... |
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See You in the Cosmos, Carl Sagan
Jack Cheng - Dial Books
Format: Print book
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A space-obsessed boy and his dog, Carl Sagan, take a journey toward family, love, hope, and awe in this funny and moving novel for fans of Counting by 7s and Walk Two Moons. 11-year-old Alex Petroski loves space and rockets, his mom, his brother, and his dog Carl Sagan - named... |
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Counting Thyme
Melanie Conklin - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Newbery-winning Rules meets Counting by 7s in this affecting story of a girl's devotion to her brother and what it means to be homeWhen eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs. But it also... |
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Cyclone
DOREEN CRONIN - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Nora's whole world plummets faster than the Cyclone roller coaster when her cousin Riley falls into a coma that Nora thinks is her fault in this warm, big-hearted debut middle grade novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author, Doreen Cronin.Riding the Cyclone, the world famous... |
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Halfway Normal
BARBARA DEE - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A cancer survivor must readjust to "normal" middle school life in this hopeful novel from the author of Star-Crossed and Truth or Dare.Norah Levy has just completed two years of treatment for leukemia and is ready to go back to the "real world" of middle... |
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Truth or Dare
Barbara Dee - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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A few white lies during a simple game of truth or dare spin out of control and make life very complicated for Lia in this brand-new novel from Barbara Dee.. When Lia returns after a summer with her eccentric aunt, it feels like everything has changed within her group of five friends. Everyone... |
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One for the Murphys
Lynda Mullaly Hunt - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Print book
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A moving debut novel about a foster child learning to open her heart to a family's love Carley uses humor and street smarts to keep her emotional walls high and thick. But the day she becomes a foster child, and moves in with the Murphys, she's blindsided. This loving, bustling family shows... |
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Chasing Augustus
KIMBERLY NEWTON FUSCO - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A sweetly satisfying novel about a girl and her lost dog, perfect for fans of Jennifer E. Holm and Kirby Larson. Rosie's led a charmed life with her loving dad, who runs the town donut shop. It's true her mother abandoned them when Rosie was just a baby, but her dad's all she's ever needed.... |
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Lost in the Sun
Lisa Graff - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of A Tangle of Knots and Absolutely Almost, a touching story about a boy who won't let one tragic accident define him. Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when a freak accident... |
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When Friendship Followed Me Home
Paul Griffin - Dial Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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A breathtaking middle-grade novel about happiness, loss, and an unforgettable dog named Flip"This story convinced me all over again that love and imagination are life's biggest magic." - Rebecca Stead, author of Newbery Award winner When You Reach Me Ben Coffin has never... |
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The Secret Hum of a Daisy
Tracy Holczer - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Grace and her mother have always been their own family, traveling from place to place like gypsies. But Grace wants to finally have a home all their own. Just when she thinks she's found it her mother says it's time to move again. Grace summons the courage to tell... |
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The Secret Language of Girls
Frances O'Roark Dowell - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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In the old days, when Kate had no interest in romance, she never cared what other people thought. Now, it appeared, love was turning her into a rotten human being. Eleven-year-old Kate Faber wishes she could talk to her best friend Marylin about this. But Marylin is no longer her best... |
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Amina's Voice
Hena Khan - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Amina's anxieties are entirely relatable, but it's her sweet-hearted nature that makes her such a winning protagonist." - Entertainment Weekly A Pakistani-American Muslim girl struggles to stay true to her family's vibrant culture while simultaneously blending in at school... |
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Wesley King - Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Complex and satisfying. Written from Daniel's point of view, this perceptive first-person narrative is sometimes painful, sometimes amusing, and always rewarding." - BOOKLIST (starred review) From the author of Incredible Space Raiders from Space! comes a brand-new... |
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Still a Work in Progress
Jo Knowles - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book
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In a return to middle-grade fiction, master of perspectives Jo Knowles depicts a younger sibling struggling to maintain his everyday life while coping with his sister's secret struggle.Noah is just trying to make it through seventh grade. The girls are confusing, the homework is boring,... |
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The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
Stacy McAnulty - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Middle school is the one problem Lucy Callahan can't solve in this middle-grade novel perfect for fans of The Fourteenth Goldfish, Rain Reign, and Counting by 7s.Lucy Callahan was struck by lightning. She doesn't remember it, but it changed her life forever. The zap gave... |
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The Girl in the Well Is Me
Karen Rivers - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Longing to be one of the popular girls in her new town, Kammie Summers has fallen into a well during a (fake) initiation into their club. Now Kammie's trapped in the dark, counting the hours, waiting to be rescued. (The Girls have gone for help, haven't they?) As hours pass, Kammie's... |
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Train I Ride
Paul Mosier - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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From Publishers Weekly Flying Start author Paul Mosier comes a poignant story about a young girl's travels by train from Los Angeles to Chicago in which she learns along the way that she can find family wherever she is. Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Sharon Creech. Rydr is on a train... |
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Be Light Like a Bird
Monika Schröder - Capstone Young Readers
Format: Print book
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After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Wren finds her life thrown into upheaval. And when her mother decides to pack up the car and forces Wren to leave the only home she's ever known, the family grows even more fractured. As she and her mother struggle to build a new life, Wren... |
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Holly Goldberg Sloan - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this heartwarming, funny middle-grade novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s, Julia grows into herself while playing a Munchkin in a production of The Wizard of Oz Julia is very short for her age, but by the end of the summer run of The... |
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Falling Over Sideways
Jordan Sonnenblick - Scholastic (Us)
Format: Print book
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It's not easy being Claire. (Really.) Claire's life is a joke . . . but she's not laughing. While her friends seem to be leaping forward, she's dancing in the same place. The mean girls at school are living up to their mean name, and there's a boy, Ryder, who's just as bad, if not worse.... |
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The Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade
Jordan Sonnenblick - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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In sixth grade, bad things can happen to good kids. Bullies will find your weakness and jump on it. Teachers will say you did something wrong when really didn't mean to do anything wrong. The kids who joke the loudest can drown out the quieter, nicer kids. Maverick wants to change all that.... |
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The Meaning of Maggie
Megan Jean Sovern - Chronicle Books Llc
Format: Print book
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* "Smart, sensitive, sad and funny." - Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewAs befits a future President of the United States of America, Maggie Mayfield has decided to write a memoir of the past year of her life. And what a banner year it's been! During this period she's Student of the Month... |
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Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Format: Library Binding
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John Coogan, better known as Crash because o f his reputation on the football field, is proud of his mach o image, and when he meets gentle Quaker, Penn Webb, he find s a prime victim for bullying. ' |
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The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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Award-winning author Wendelin Van Draanen gives us a fresh and funny story about a boy learning to become the brave hero of his own life. Perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and The Fourteenth Goldfish. My secret life is filled with psychic vampires, wheelchair zombies, chain-rattlin'... |
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Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry
Susan Vaught - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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A mysterious note takes Dani Beans into the secrets of Ole Miss and its dark past in this compelling new middle grade novel from the author of Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy."Sooner or later, we're all gonna be okay." That's what Dani's Grandma Beans used to say.... |
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Caleb and Kit
Beth Vrabel - Running Press
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids his age. That's because he has cystic fibrosis, a diagnosis meaning lungs that fill with mucus and a shortened lifespan. Caleb tries not to let his disorder define him, but it can be hard with an overprotective... |
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So B. It
Sarah Weeks
Format: Print book
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You couldnt really tell about Mamas brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girls, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the |
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The Way to Bea
Kat Yeh - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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With a charming voice, winning characters, and a perfectly-woven plot, Kat Yeh delivers a powerful story of friendship and finding a path towards embracing yourself.Everything in Bea's world has changed. She's starting seventh grade newly friendless and facing big changes at home, where... |
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