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Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs saving"--
2) The big game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
Author
Series
Sci-fi Junior High volume 2
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Kelvin is desperate to take Luna to Sci-Fi Junior High's school dance, but first he must face mad scientist Erik Failenheimer and his army of pinions.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Vladimir Tod volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.
Author
Series
Sci-fi Junior High volume 1
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As the new student at Sci-Fi High School on an inter-galactic space station, can Kelvin Klosmo, the unremarkable son of Earth's two most famous geniuses, save the universe from a mad scientist?
Author
Series
Popularity papers volume 7
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lydia and Julie's comparative peace is shattered when Hamlin Junior High plays host to new students whose school has burned down, a situation that culminates in a heated rivalry and a dance battle.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Cody and his father, an undercover agent, are nearly killed, Cody moves in with his aunt in Connecticut, where he is helped with his adjustment to the trials of attending public school for the first time and investigating a threat in nearby woods by a wounded Iraq War veteran.
10) Hoop hustle
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brian Worth Jr. plans on trying out for his middle school's basketball team, but the trouble is he has always relied on his height to give him an advantage and that is no longer enough--but at the local senior center, where he reluctantly volunteers, he discovers a friend in George, a former player, who sets out to teach him some of the skills he is missing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
13) Rule the school
Author
Series
Vordak the Incomprehensible volume 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When one of his experiments makes supervillain Vordak the Incomprehensible younger, he comes out of retirement to launch his latest attempt to defeat Commander Virtue and rule the world, starting with Farding Junior High School.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old dog-walker Maggie, aided by her twin brother Finn and best friend Lucy, investigates someone she believes is stealing pets.
15) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As winter nears, a legend spreads through the student body about a mysterious "Snow Titan." When a sudden cold snap hits Attack Junior High, the story turns out to be more than legend! Later, what do you get humanity's strongest soldier on his birthday? And the peace of the campus comes to depend on the wiles of the one least in touch with reality, Armin!
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Its more delinquency and senseless schoolyard violence as bullying Titans, cowardly teachers, and whiny human students clash! The school play gets closer and closer, and Erens tired of being the Titans dancing monkey (or horse, in Jeans case). Then, the kids fight the forces foe nature in the Wall Beautification Clubs greatest challenge ever, and Eren takes a special test administered by Erwin and Levi. And finally, the shocking secret of the Titan...
19) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Eren and the gang start a band, in the hopes of taking the school festival by storm! But they face unexpected opposition in the school's mysterious idols, a trio known as No Name, not to mention the musical Titans! Then, Mikasa gets herself caught up in a high-stakes culinary battle, and two familiar figures from Levi's past return to haunt him."--Back cover.
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