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Sorry You're Lost
Matt Blackstone - Farrar
Format: Print book
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When Denny "Donuts" Murphy's mother dies, he becomes the world's biggest class clown. But deep down, Donuts just wants a normal life -- one where his mom is still alive and where his dad doesn't sit in front of the TV all day. And so Donuts tries to get back into the groove by helping... |
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Texting the Underworld
Ellen Booraem - Dial
Format: Hardcover
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Perpetual scaredy-cat Conor O'Neill has the fright of his life when a banshee girl named Ashling shows up in his bedroom. Ashling is--as all banshees are--a harbinger of death, but she's new at this banshee business, and first she insists on going to middle school. As Conor attempts... |
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13: A Novel
Jason Robert Brown
Format: Book
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13 Things to Know About 13 1. This book is about a guy named Evan. 2. Three months before his 13th birthday, he has to move from New York City 3. to Appleton, Indiana, 4. where nobody knows him. 5. He's not very happy about it. 6. His mom is k |
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The Truth about Truman School
Dori Hillestad Butler - Albert Whitman & Company
Format: Hardcover
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When Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say. |
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Where You'll Find Me
Natasha Friend - Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.
Format: Print book
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""Natasha Friend, I loved your book. I was hooked from the first page." -- Judy BlumeThe first month of school, thirteen-year-old Anna Collette finds herself...DUMPED by her best friend Dani, who suddenly wants to spend eighth grade "hanging out with different people."... |
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How to Survive Middle School
Donna Gephart - Delacorte Books for Young Readers; 1 edition
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Eleven-year-old David Greenberg dreams of becoming a TV superstar like his idol, Jon Stewart. But in real life, David is just another kid terrified of starting his first year at Harman Middle School. With a wacky sense of humor and hilarious Top 6 Lists, David spends his free time making... |
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Lily and Dunkin
Donna Gephart - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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"Gephart has written a story that will speak not just to one specific community, but to humanity as a whole." --VOYAFor readers who enjoyed Wonder and Counting by 7's, award-winning author Donna Gephart crafts a compelling dual narrative about two remarkable... |
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Me and Miranda Mullaly
Jake Gerhardt - Viking Childrens Books
Format: Print book
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What's harder: eighth grade or your first crush?Meet Sam, the comedian; Duke, the intellectual; and Chollie, the athlete. Their fates converge at Penn Valley Middle as each falls desperately for the enigmatic Miranda Mullaly - the girl who smiles like she means it, the girl who makes... |
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Planet Middle School
Nikki Grimes - Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author of One Last Word and Coretta Scott King award-winning Bronx Masquerade Nikki Grimes offers fresh novel in verse story about young heartbreak and hope.. For twelve years, Joylin Johnsons life has been just fine. A game of basketball with the boys-especially... |
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Courage for Beginners
Karen Harrington - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fictional, she'd magically know how to deal with the fact that her best friend, Anibal Gomez, has abandoned her in favor of being a "hipster." She'd be able to take care of everyone when her dad has to spend... |
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Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life
P. J. Hoover - Starscape
Format: Hardcover
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Tut: The Story of My Immortal Life is a funny, fast-paced novel for young readers by P.J. Hoover which chronicles the mischievous adventures of King Tut, now an immortal eighth-grader living in Washington, D.C..You’d think it would be great being an Egyptian demigod, but if King Tut has to sit through... |
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The Secrets of Tree Taylor
Dandi Daley Mackall - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Thirteen-year-old Tree Taylor has two goals for the summer of 631. Experience her first real kiss. A kiss delivered by a boy. A boy who is not related to her. A kiss worth writing about.2. Become a famous writer. Or, at least, write an investigative article that will land her the freshman... |
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Gracefully Grayson
Ami Polonsky - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Tenderly and courageously told, Gracefully Grayson is a small miracle of a book. Its story is so compelling I found myself holding my breath as I read it and so intimate I felt as if what was happening to Grayson was happening to me. Thank you, Ami Polonsky, for creating this memorable... |
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Lenny Cyrus, School Virus
Matt Smith - Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Format: Hardcover
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It seemed so logical at first. Fourteen-year-old Lenny Cyrus had loved Zooey Andrews since third grade. All the boy genius needed to do to win her heart, surely, was shrink down to the size of an amoeba, ooze into a gelatin capsule, and have his friend Harlan slip it (him!) into Zooey’s... |
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Blue Jasmine
Kashmira Sheth - Hyperion; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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When twelve-year-old Seema Trivedi learns that she and her family must move from their small Indian town to Iowa City, she realizes she'll have to say good-bye to the purple-jeweled mango trees and sweet-smelling jasmine, to the monsoon rains and the bustling market. More important,... |
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The Swap
Megan Shull - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book
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Coming soon as a Disney Channel Original Movie, Megan Shull's smart and funny twist on Freaky Friday is perfect for fans of Wendy Mass, Jerry Spinelli, and Jon Scieszka!With one random wish, Jack and Ellie are living life in each other's shoes. He's her. And she's him. ELLIE assumed popular... |
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Scrawl
Mark Shulman - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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Tod Munn is a bully. He's tough, but times are even tougher. The wimps have stopped coughing up their lunch money. The administration is cracking down. Then to make things worse, Tod and his friends get busted doing something bad. Something really bad.Lucky Tod must spend his daily... |
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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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Goodbye stranger
Rebecca Stead - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Print book
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"Masterly. . . . Sensitively explores togetherness, aloneness, betrayal and love." - The New York Times Book Review2016 Honor Book in Fiction, Boston Globe Horn Book AwardA NYT Editors' Choice and NYT Notable Children's Books of 2015This brilliant novel by Newbery Medal... |
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Nothing
Janne Teller - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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When Pierre-Anthon realizes there is no meaning to life, the seventh-grader leaves his classroom, climbs a tree, and stays there. His classmates cannot make him come down, not even by pelting him with rocks. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give... |
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The Center of Everything
Linda Urban - Harcourt
Format: Print book
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Spring 2013 Kids' Indie Next ListFor Ruby Pepperdine, the "center of everything" is on the rooftop of Pepperdine Motors in her donut-obsessed town of Bunning, New Hampshire, stargazing from the circle of her grandmother Gigi's hug. That's how everything is supposed to be - until... |
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Unfriended
Rachel Vail - Viking Juvenile
Format: Print book
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In middle school, nothing is more important than friendship.When Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table with the group she has dreamed of joining, she can hardly believe her luck. Everyone seems so nice, so kind to one another. But all is not as it seems with her new friends, and soon... |
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The Revealers
Doug Wilhelm - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Throwing light on a dark problemParkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial... |
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Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Lisa Yee
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Who would have thought being smart could be so hard (and funny)?Millicent Min is having a bad summer. Her fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve. Her fellow 11-year-olds hate her for going to high school. And her mother has arranged for her to tutor Stanford Wong,... |
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