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English
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
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English
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While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
3) Warp speed
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
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English
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After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
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Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
190 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
7) Wonder
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English
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
""Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?""--
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Stink Moody volume 2
Fountas & Pinnell
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English
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Seven-year-old Stink Moody, having discovered that he can get free samples by writing letters of complaint to companies, gets so caught up in his letter writing campaign that he misses his best friend's birthday, but he plans a super surprise to make up for his mistake.
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 15
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
108, 5 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the annual I. B. Rotten Competition approaches, the school's egotistical schemer, Bernie Bridges, fears that his pet parrot, Lippy, is no longer a good luck charm.
11) Rick
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2020.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt...
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 16
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
66 p. ill. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Originally published: New York : Random House, 2001."This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--P. [4] of cover.As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events. "Early Chapter Books" collection--look for orange spine label.
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads - can it be?! - three feet, seven and three quarter inches! Is Stink shrinking? He tries everything to look like he's growing, but wearing up-and-down stripes and spiking his hair aren't fooling anyone. But while he can't ask James Madison - the shortest...
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 14
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
69 p. ill. 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who in her kindergarten class is her secret admirer.
15) The Testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Japanese American Mika is the newest member of the Lotus Lane Girls, with her very own new diary, but she is still troubled by tensions between her different friends, and worried about her project for the school newspaper.
17) Magic for liars
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
18) 33 minutes
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as small, skinny seventh-grader Sam's former best friend--now a popular athlete--promises to beat Sam up at recess in exactly thirty-three minutes.
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Language
English
Description
John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed middle grade novels 'Sidekicked' and 'The Dungeoneers,' returns with a heart-shatteringly brilliant new novel: a realistic contemporary story of three boys and their relationships with a very special teacher. Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The good ones. The not-so-good ones. The boring ones, the mean ones, the ones who try too hard. The ones who are kind of fun but also kind of annoying....
20) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
83 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and lost item locator, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, also known as Mudshark.
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