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Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life. Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents...
22) Real friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group. Everyone in The Group wants to be Jen's #1, and some girls would do anything to stay on top... even if it means bullying others. Now every day is like a roller coaster for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne stay friends? Can she stand up for herself?...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
174 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade can be a tension convention for Nate Wright. His baseball team’s just been given the lamest name in Little League history; he’s on the verge of becoming know-it-all Gina’s personal servant for a day; and Spitsy, the closest thing he has to a dog of his own, is in love with a CAT. Yup, Nate’s up to his ears in stress. Luckily, the perfect remedy is close at hand: an empty plastic soda bottle. All Nate has to do is drum it gently...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life, middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
26) Eighth grade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.
27) Melissa
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When people look at George, they think they see a boy. But she knows she's not a boy. She knows she's a girl. George thinks she'll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte's Web. George really, really, REALLY wants to play Charlotte. But the teacher says she can't even try out for the part ... because she's a boy. With the help of her best friend, Kelly, George comes up with a plan....
29) Firegirl
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Nate Wright is born to be wild! And when Enslave the Mollusk is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house, he and his bandmates are on the stairway to heaven. While the kids rock, the school year rolls on. Mrs. Godfrey is back in black, Gina thinks she's hot stuff, and Coach John is dazed and confused. The good news: Nate's finally reunited with Trudy, his summer crush. But when he finds out she's a--gulp--seventh grader, will Nate lose that...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.
32) Making friends
Author
Series
Making friends (Kristen Gudsnuk) volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade was so much easier for Danny. All her friends were in the same room and she knew exactly what to expect out of life. Now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is totally, completely lost. What Danny really needs is a new best friend! So when she inherits a magic sketchbook from her eccentric great-aunt in which anything she sketches in it comes to...
Author
Series
Club kick out volume 1
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
220 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this punchy and energetic middle grade graphic novel, six artistic misfits take matters into their own hands when their principal cancels all creative extracurricular clubs at their school. When the school principal cancels Sasha's gaming club, she's crushed--but not alone. Turns out theater, cosplay, and choir clubs are canceled too, and tons of kids are left without a space to let their creativity shine. Just when she thinks all hope is lost,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade true story from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick. In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME By keeping his cool (some of the time), banging on the drums (a lot), and keeping his sense of humor (all the time), Jordan's going to try to make it through the year . . . and grow up to write a book about it! --
37) School trip
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 3
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together."--
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
156 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Amaya, Princess of House Amethyst in Gemworld, is sent to mundane Earth to teach her that magic is a privilege, but after Amy has long settled into ordinary middle school life, a Prince of the Realm brings her home to restore her magical destiny.
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this compelling middle-grade graphic novel The Leak, Ruth, a young journalist, is determined to uncover a secret that threatens her town."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Winner of the 2019 Newbery Medal
Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina.
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother,
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