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How to Survive Middle School
Donna Gephart - Yearling Books
Format: Paperback
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Middle school gets off to a rocky start when David has a falling out with his longtime best friend and becomes the target of a school bully. Things improve when Sophie befriends David and helps him turn his homemade videos into Internet sensations |
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Rules
Cynthia Lord - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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This 2007 Newbery Honor Book is a humorous and heartwarming debut about feeling different and finding acceptance. Now in After Words paperback!Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around... |
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Schooled
Gordon Korman - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Print book
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Capricorn Anderson had never watched a television show before. He'd never tasted a pizza. He had never even heard of a wedgie. And he had never, in his wildest dreams, thought of living anywhere but Garland Farm commune with his hippie caretaker, Rain. |
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Ungifted
Gordon Korman - Balzer + Bray
Format: Print book
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman comes a hilarious and heartfelt novel in which one middle-school troublemaker accidentally moves into the gifted and talented program - and changes everything. For fans of Louis Sachar and Jack Gantos, this funny and touching underdog... |
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One Crazy Summer
Rita Williams-Garcia - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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Newbery Honor Book Scott ODell Award for Historical Fiction Coretta Scott King Award and National Book Award FinalistThe Newbery Award winning story of three sisters and the mother who abandoned them, set against the turbulent 60s and Oaklands Black Panther movement. Powerful and affecting.-NYTimes, |
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Heartbeat
Sharon Creech - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Run run run.That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . .thump-thump, thump-thump.It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant, her grandfather is forgetful,... |
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Savvy
Ingrid Law - Puffin Books
Format: eBook
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A vibrant new voice . . . a modern classic.For generations, the Beaumont family has harbored a magical secret. They each possess a "savvy" - a special supernatural power that strikes when they turn thirteen. Grandpa Bomba moves mountains, her older brothers create hurricanes and spark... |
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms... |
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson
Format: Hardcover
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Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesnt remember her life. Or does... |
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The One and Only Ivan
Katherine Applegate - Harper
Format: Book
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Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal and a #1 New York Times bestseller, this stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... |
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The Crossover
Kwame Alexander - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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2015 Newbery Medal Winner2015 Coretta Scott King Honor Award WinnerNew York Times Bestseller "With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . .The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, 12-year... |
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Among The Hidden
Margaret Peterson Haddix - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another third convinces him that the government is wrong. |
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Rain Reign
Ann M Martin - Feiwel & Friends
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times Bestseller!Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. She's thrilled that her own name is a homonym, and she purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein) , which, according to Rose's rules of homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands... |
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Max The Mighty
W R Philbrick - Scholastic
Format: Paperback
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This is the dramatic, heartwrenching tale of Max and Worm, two outsiders who turn to each other for survival. Written in a haunting yet uplifting first-person voice, this compelling novel is destined to become a classic. |
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Westing Game: Anniversary Edition
Ellen Raskin - Recorded Books, LLC
Format: Audiobook
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As Samuel G. Westing's 16 heirs gather for the reading of his will, they are elated to find that one of them stands to inherit a cool $200 million. In order to collect it, all he or she has to do is expose Mr. Westing's murderer, who also happens to be one of the heirs. As they are paired... |
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Chains
Laurie Halse Anderson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious... |
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The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep
John Hulme - Bloomsbury USA Childrens; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Twelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park New Jersey He works as a Fixer for The Seems From the Department of Weather to the Department of Sleep The Seems is a secret organization that makes sure our world keeps running--and more... |
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Shark Girl
Kelly Bingham - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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A teenager struggles through physical loss to the start of acceptance in an absorbing, artful novel at once honest and insightful, wrenching and redemptive.On a sunny day in June, at the beach with her mom and brother, fifteen-year-old Jane Arrowood went for a swim. And then everything... |
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Between Shades of Gray
Ruta Sepetys - Speak
Format: Paperback
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"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both."--The Washington PostFrom New York Times bestseller Ruta Sepetys, author of the upcoming Salt to the Sea A New York Times notable bookAn International BestsellerA Carnegie... |
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Tears of a Tiger
Sharon M. Draper -
Tears of a Tiger
Library Binding
– November 13, 2008
Format: Book
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Andy tackles his guilt and grief in the first book of Sharon M. Drapers award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy, now in trade paperback with a new cover. Tigers dont cryor do they After the death of his longtime friend and fellow Hazelwood Tiger in a car accident, Andy, the driver, blames... |
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The War that Saved My Life
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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#1 New York Times BestsellerNewbery Honor BookWinner of the Schneider Family Book Award (Middle School) Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of 2015New York Public Library's 100 Books for Reading and Sharing An exceptionally moving story of triumph against all odds... |
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Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Format: Paperback
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. |
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Maniac Magee
Jerry Spinelli - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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A Newbery Medal winning modern classic about a racially divided small town and a boy who runs. Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years,... |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Paperback
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Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832.But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel... |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor - Dial; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 1977 Newbery Medal, this is a remarkably moving novel--one that has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one familys struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face... |
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Fred Korematsu Speaks Up
Laura Atkins - Heyday
Format: Hardcover
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The first book in the Fighting for Justice series Winner, Carter G. Woodson Book AwardWinner, New-York Historical Society Children's Book PrizeHonor Title, Jane Addams Children's Book AwardFinalist, 2017 Cybils AwardsNominee, Georgia Book AwardA Kirkus Best Book of the Year Fred... |
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Serafina and the Black Cloak
Robert Beatty - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
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"Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, and they will ensnare your soul. " Serafina has never had a reason to disobey her pa and venture beyond the grounds of the Biltmore estate. There's plenty to explore in her grand home, although she must... |
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
DUSTI BOWLING - Sterling Children's Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned." - School Library Journal (Starred review) Chosen for the Autumn 2017 Kids' Indie Next List!Winner of the 2017 Reading the West... |
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
PABLO CARTAYA - VIKING CHILDREN'S Books
Format: Print book
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"Sensational." - Matt de la Pea, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author of The Last Stop on Market StreetSave the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG,... |
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
Leslie Connor - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: eBook
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A 2018 National Book Award Finalist! From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope.Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest... |
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Space Case
Stuart Gibbs - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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It's a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School.Like his fellow lunarnauts - otherwise known as Moonies - living on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being... |
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Refugee
ALAN GRATZ - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft,... |
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Slider
PETE HAUTMAN - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Competitive eating vies with family expectations in a funny, heartfelt novel for middle-grade readers by National Book Award winner Pete Hautman.David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact,... |
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All's Faire in Middle School
Victoria Jamieson - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The Newbery Honor-winning author of Roller Girl is back with a heartwarming graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire. Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown... |
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The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated... |
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Restart
GORDON KORMAN - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Chase's memory just went out the window. Chase doesn't remember falling off the roof. He doesn't remember hitting his head. He doesn't, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name.... |
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The Stars Beneath Our Feet
DAVID BARCLAY MOORE - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Library Binding
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A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of his brother's death in this outstanding debut novel that's been described as a "fast and furious read in which we meet some amazing people, people that stay with us" by Newbery Honor and National Book... |
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The First Rule of Punk
CELIA C PREZ - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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From debut author and longtime zine-maker Celia C. Prez, The First Rule of Punk is a wry and heartfelt exploration of friendship, finding your place, and learning to rock out like no one's watching. There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school - you can't fix it with... |
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42 Is Not Just a Number: The Odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American Hero
DOREEN RAPPAPORT - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and became an American hero.Baseball, basketball, football - no matter the game, Jackie Robinson excelled. His talents would have easily landed another man a career... |
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As Brave As You
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book
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Kirkus Award Finalist Schneider Family Book Award Winner Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book When two brothers decide to prove how brave they are, everything backfires - literally - in this piercing middle grade novel by the winner of the Coretta Scott King - Johnson Steptoe Award.Genie's... |
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The Blackthorn Key
Kevin Sands - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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Following a series of murders, an apothecary's apprentice must solve puzzles and decipher codes in pursuit of a secret that could destroy the world in this suspenseful debut novel."Tell no one what I've given you." Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy,... |
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Scythe
Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Paperback
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Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor-winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered... |
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Wild Bird
Wendelin Van Draanen - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Wren is in a transitional stage in her life. Her parents get great new job offers and choose to accept them, which means moving the entire family to a whole new place with a much bigger house.
Wren’s sister is too busy at their new school making new friends to have time for her.... |
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
JEN WANG - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride -- or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia -- the hottest... |
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Piecing Me Together
Rene Watson - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book
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A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it wants to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way.... |
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