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Language
English
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Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she and her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
65 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
If your house were on fire, what one thing would you save? Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park explores different answers to this provocative question in linked poems that capture the diverse voices of a middle school class. Illustrated with black-and-white art.
Author
Series
Serwa Boateng volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially when she has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.
86) Baseball great
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
87) The Vanquishers
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
279 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In an alternate San Antonio, there have been no known cases of vampirism since a group of masked vampire hunters called the Vanquishers wiped out the last horde of the undead twenty years ago, but twelve-year-old Malika "Boog" Wilson's parents are not taking any chances, especially when Boog's new classmate Aaron goes missing.
Author
Series
Geeked out volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Otto Waddle Junior High School is worse than ever. Tip and his geeky friends Mindy, Owen, and Xen have finally come into their superpowers--well, their mediocre powers--and now have a whole new cast of impersonators to take on. Their foursome is being challenged by a rival group of students who are pawns in Darth Susan's evil plot against them. If middle school has any chance of survival, Tip and his friends must take their unusual powers to a whole...
90) Star-crossed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
91) Each tiny spark
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
92) 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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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Mirza wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
94) Deephaven
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Guinevere "Nev" Tallow receives an acceptance letter to the exclusive Deephaven Academy, they know it's the fresh start that they've been looking for. But things are strange from the moment they arrive--the house itself seems to breathe, students whisper secrets in dark corridors, and the entire east wing of the academy is locked away for reasons no one wants to explain. And Nev knows something ragged stalks the shadowy corridors, something...
95) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a flood forces Nory and her best friends to evacuate Dunwiddle and relocate to prestigious Sage Academy, the upside-down magic students have a hard time fitting inches.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.
Author
Series
Strangeville School volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harvey Hill's first day at Strangeville Middle School doesn't go quite as expected when he discovers it's full of various creatures and odd happenings, including a particularly nefarious supply closet"--
98) Supergifted
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After years of attending a school for gifted children, Noah finds himself at a normal school where he immediately ends up on the wrong side of a cheerleading captain and a jock.
99) Popular clone
Author
Series
Clone chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Brilliance Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (392 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas, a science-loving bully magnet, clones himself, only to discover that his double is infinitely cooler than himself.
100) Jawbreaker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless, and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite. She already has braces, which means she lives on Advil and soft foods after each orthodontist appointment. But now Max has to wear painful (and totally awkward) orthodontic...
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