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1) Bluefish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.
2) Drama
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Callie loves theater. And while she would totally try out for her middle school's production of Moon Over Mississippi, she's a terrible singer. Instead she's the set designer for the stage crew, and this year she's determined to create a set worthy of Broadway on a middle-school budget. But how can she, when she doesn't know much about carpentry, ticket sales are down, and the crew members are having trouble working together? Not to mention the onstage...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the young lives of Grammy-nominated indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan & Sara, who have sold well over a million records, with artwork from Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden, this opening book of a middle-grade graphic novel duology explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood. Before the indie-pop duo Tegan & Sara took the world by storm, Tegan and Sara Quin were identical twins trying to find their place...
6) Hummingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Olive, who suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life, finally attends school in person she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy, but if she can find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby, and prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
Author
Series
Trash can days volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four diverse seventh and eighth graders at southern California's San Paulo Junior High tell, from their unique perspectives, of a tumultuous year of changing friendships and romantic interests as they are learning to be themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fifth-grader whose best friends walked away, whose mother is detached, and whose father does unspeakable things, copes with the help of friend Sofie and anonymous letters tied to balloons and released. Includes a list of resources related to abuse, gender, sexuality, and more.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the holidays approach, Massie, Alicia, Dylan, Kristen, and Claire deal with budget woes, boy friends and each other in the continuing adventures of the Clique.
11) Dial L for Loser
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just as the Pretty Committee is getting bored with being expelled and Massie begins worrying about losing her spot as the most popular girl, Claire is cast in a Hollywood film, and as Massie and Alicia report live from the set, Kristen and Dylan keep them posted on events in Westchester County.
12) Dress coded
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion."--
Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top when she had to keep her sweatshirt wrapped around her waist. Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Jessica was pulled over by the principal, missed a math quiz, and her teacher gave her an F. Molly starts a podcast protesting...
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bet about wardrobes between the wealthy Massie and middle-class Claire results in a testing of old friendships, a forging of new ones, and a change for the student body at Octavian Country Day School.
14) Lily and Dunkin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
15) The good war
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
There's a new after school club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will be playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when one player takes the game too far. Can...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes back.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told from three viewpoints, thirteen-year-old scientific genius Lenny Cyrus shrinks himself and, helped by his best friend Harlan, enters the body of Zooey, the girl he has loved since third grade, hoping to physically change her mind about him on the very day her play opens.
Author
Series
The Tribe (Clay Chapman) volume 1
Publisher
Disney*Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After practically burning down his last school, Spencer Pendleton wants to keep out of trouble at Greenfield Middle but between attacks from the school bully and being recruited by the mischievous tribe of dropouts hiding in the building, Spencer seems headed for permanent detention.
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