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81) The tryout
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad."--
82) Fake blood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition. First Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Physical Desc
332 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to get the attention of Nia, the girl he likes, eleven-year-old A.J. pretends to be a vampire, unaware that she intends to be a slayer.
Author
Series
Magical reality of Nadia volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nadia loves fun facts. Here are a few about her. There was a magical--and hilarious--ancient Egyptian teacher named Titi trapped in her hippo amulet until she freed him last fall. Her school is choosing a new mascot and her idea is totally going to win. She's going to kick butt writing for the school newspaper this term--maybe. A couple of weeks in, the newspaper is a big mess. The mascot contest is mayhem, too ... Then Nadia and Titi discover that...
84) Invisible Emmie
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of two totally different girls--quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie--and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. All the crushes, humiliation, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surprising day" -- back cover.
Author
Series
Making friends (Kristen Gudsnuk) volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dany, Madison, and... wait -- another Dany?! -- must navigate some very complicated friendships while trying to capture a magical dog that is turning their town upside-down! Almost everything is going great for Dany. She and Madison are still best friends, she still has her magic sketchbook, and the new school year is looking up. But when Dany creates a duplicate of herself to secretly help with homework and raise her social status, the two of them...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty much the same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
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...
89) Cabin fever
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Greg Heffley is in big trouble. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect. But the crazy thing is, he's innocent. Or at least sort of. The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse that being stuck inside with your family for the holidays?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy" whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
95) 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...
96) The unteachables
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
Author
Series
Curlfriends volume 1
Publisher
LB Ink, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eager to make a good first impression at her new middle school, thirteen-year-old Charlie does her best to fit in until she meets a group of diverse Black girls who show her the importance of authenticity.
Author
Series
Steve L. McEvil volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Steve has plans to take over his middle school, but when a nefarious villain beats him to the punch, Steve will have to consider doing the most horrific thing of them all: teaming up with good guy Vic Turry to save his school and maybe the entire town!"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
There are no shortcuts to surviving your first day at a new school--you can't fix it with duct tape like you would your Chuck Taylors. On Day One, twelve-year-old Malú (María Luisa, if you want to annoy her) inadvertently upsets Posada Middle School's queen bee, violates the school's dress code with her punk rock look, and disappoints her college-professor mom in the process. Her dad, who now lives a thousand miles away, says things will get better...
Author
Series
Magic girls volume 1
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing cooler than Magical Girls - pretty superheroes fighting villains with the power of friendship and glitter? What could be better than that! This year in middle school, Kira is going to be cool and popular and have SO many friends because she's going to be a MAGICAL GIRL! ...Or not. Frustrated beyond belief, Kira makes a wish on a shooting star that her life will change - and when Catacorn, a cat-unicorn-space-princess, crashes into...
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