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Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Want to aspire to greatness? Check out this new edition of Timmy Failure's first adventure - featuring the bonus section "How to Draw Timmy and Total."He may be clueless, but the comically self-confident Timmy Failure is CEO of the best detective agency in town, perhaps even the nation.... |
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The Tapper Twins Go to War
Geoff Rodkey - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos, screenshots, text messages, chat logs, and online gaming... |
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My Life as a Book (The My Life series, 1)
Janet Tashjian
Format: Hardcover
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Summers finally here, and Derek Fallon is looking forward to pelting the UPS truck with water balloons, climbing onto the garage roof, and conducting silly investigations. But when his parents decide to send him to Learning Camp, Dereks dreams of fun come to an end. Ever since hes been... |
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Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick: Ginny Davis's Year In Stuff
Jennifer L. Holm - Random House Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Part graphic novel, part scrapbook and altogether original - New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Holm's Eighth Grade Is Making Me Sick is just right for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries and Babymouse!Ginny has big plans for eighth grade. She's going... |
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The Terrible Two
Mac Barnett - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller "A double helping of fun and mischief!" - Jeff kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series "Hilarious." - Dav Pilkey, author of the Captain Underpants series Miles Murphy is not happy to be moving to Yawnee Valley, a sleepy... |
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Billy Sure Kid Entrepreneur Is NOT a Singer!
Luke Sharpe - Simon Spotlight
Format: Paperback
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Billy Sure is an inventor, the CEO of Sure Things, Inc., and a middle school student. But he is not a singer! How bad is he? Find out in the ninth book of a hilarious middle grade series!Everyone is talking about Billy Sure, the genius inventor and CEO of Sure Things, Inc. Billy went from... |
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Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic
Mark Tatulli - Andrews McMeel Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Meet Desmond Pucket--master of mayhem! Will his monster-y special effects pranks get him kicked out of middle school before the class trip to Crab Shell Pier? Or will Desmond be able to keep his monster magic in check?This is a compelling new character that kids will love!"Tatulli's... |
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Vordak the Incomprehensible: How to Grow Up and Rule the World
Vordak T. Incomprehensible - EgmontUSA
Format: Hardcover
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Slip on your acid-free gloves, make sure you have a duplicate copy of How to Grow Up and Rule the World (just in case something should happen to this one) and try to follow along as the incomparable, superior-in-all-ways Vordak the Incomprehensible teaches you a thing or two about villainy.... |
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The Loser List
H. N. Kowitt - Scholastic Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid watch out -- Danny Shine and the other kids of Thorn Underwood Middle School aren't bestsellers yet, but they're on their way!When Danny gets caught trying to cross his name off the "Geek" list in the girls' bathroom, he's sent to detention. Bullies torment... |
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Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius
Frank Asch - Kids Can Press
Format: Hardcover
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Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue -- and sticking his nose into his big brother's business.... |
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Please Write in This Book
Mary Amato - Holiday House
Format: Hardcover
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When a teacher leaves a blank book in the Writer's Corner for her students to find, with the instructions "Please Write in this Book," she hopes it will encourage her students to talk to one another in its pages. They do, and the result is an epic classroom battle. |
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Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff
Jennifer L. Holm - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Ginny has ten items on her big to-do list for seventh grade. None of them, however, include accidentally turning her hair pink. Or getting sent to detention for throwing frogs in class. Or losing the lead role in the ballet recital to her ex-best friend. Or the thousand other things that... |
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Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit
Tommy Greenwald - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Charlie Joe Jackson, the most reluctant reader ever born, made it his mission in the first book to get through middle school without reading a single book from cover to cover. Now he's back, and trying desperately to get straight A's in order to avoid going to academic camp for the summer.... |
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Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things
Lenore Look - Yearling Books
Format: Paperback
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Here's the first book in the beloved and hilarious Alvin Ho chapter book series, which has been compared to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and is perfect for both beginning and reluctant readers. Alvin, an Asian American second grader, is afraid of everything--elevators, tunnels, girls, and, most... |
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Lawn Boy Returns
Gary Paulsen - Wendy Lamb Books
Format: Hardcover
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Gary Paulsen's funny follow-up to Lawn Boy is full of big surprises and big laughs. Lawn Boy says: The summer I was twelve, mowing lawns with Grandpa's old riding mower turned into big business. With advice from Arnold the stockbroker, I learned all about making money. Six weeks... |
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Max Quigley, Technically Not A Bully
James Roy - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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For readers just past Captain Underpants, for those who relish the sort of humor of Louis Sachar and Jack Gantos, here is a hilarious novel by an author who truly gets boys. His main character Max Quigley is no angel; in fact one might call him a bully. But even as he taunts "wimpy... |
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Super Chicken Nugget Boy vs. Dr. Ned-Grant and his Eggplant Army
Josh Lewis - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover
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The nugget is back!After his tasty alter-ego felled the Furious Fry, Fern Goldberg went back to being his regular skinny self at Bert Lahr Elementary. But when a mad food scientist named Dr. Myron Ned-Grant--inventor of the thirty-pronged fork and other culinary contraptions--comes for a friendly... |
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Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze
Alan Silberberg - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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MILO is the funny and poignant story, told through text and cartoons, of a 13-year-old boy's struggle to come to terms with the loss that hit the reset button on his life. Loveable geek Milo Cruikshank finds reasons for frustration at every turn, like people who carve Halloween pumpkins... |
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