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1) Wonder
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After Rafe is happily accepted into art school in a big city, he discovers more academic rigor and competition than he expected, compelling him to find inspiration in other exciting activities.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Language
English
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Junior Fiction Humorous
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
Junior Fiction Humorous
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
Description
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.
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Rafe Khatchadorian takes his troublemaking ways across the pond and gets lost in London!"--
5) I, funny
Author
Series
I funny novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable-until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a brilliant plan-a dog-walking business that soon turns into a huge money-making neighborhood empire"--
7) Framed
Author
Series
Swindle mystery volume 3
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
8) Fuzzy
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. When Max - Maxine Zelaster - befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle School's new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle school - the good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that surviving seventh grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard...
Author
Series
Homerooms and hall passes volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the mystical realm of Bríandalör, every day the brave and the bold delve into hidden temples or forgotten dungeons, battling vile monsters and evil wizards to loot their treasure hoards for sweet, sweet magic items. But in their free time, our heroes--Thromdurr the mighty barbarian, Devis the shifty thief, Vela the noble paladin, Sorrowshade the Gloom Elf assassin, and Albiorix the (good!) wizard--need to relax and unwind. That's why they meet...
10) Robots go wild
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
11) The campaign
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding.
12) The unteachables
Author
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
13) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
Author
Series
Library volume 2
Language
English
Description
Middle-schoolers Marcus, Theo, and Lu return to the Library to help figure out, and fix, what is going wrong at a school in Massachusetts.
16) Squint
Author
Language
English
Description
Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
Author
Series
Merci Suárez volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci embarks on a seventh grade year shaped by high teacher expectations, a crush on a school-store co-worker, and a bossy classmate's plan for the annual Heart Ball.
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The trip to Australia Rafe has won starts badly, but after connecting with a group of misfits he finds a way to do what he does best--create mayhem.
19) The Vanquishers
Author
Series
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.--
20) Deadman's Castle
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Igor yearns for a normal life, but since he was five and his father witnessed a crime, his family has been on the run from the sinister figure he calls The Lizard Man.
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