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Series
Spy school volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In the eleventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley goes on a rescue mission when one of his own is abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility. Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For Merci Sur̀ez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always...
3) Sardines
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After the accident that took his older brother, Lucas is pretty much alone, except for the motley group of kids he meets at his middle school's aftercare program"--OCLC.
4) Free period
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Forced to join the school's Community Action Club, troublemaking best friends Helen and Gracie take over the club's campaign for maxi pads in bathrooms and soon find themselves closer to change and deeper in trouble than ever before, forcing them to make a difficult decision"--
6) Picture day
Author
Series
Brinkley yearbooks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Viv never looks forward to picture day. Her mom always makes her wear a boring braid, and no one at school notices her--aside from her two best friends, Milo and Al, of course. But enough is enough. This year, Viv is taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Enter: a pair of scissors. And, well, a new hairstyle. Just in time for photos! Suddenly Viv is an overnight trendsetter at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"At the start of seventh grade, Kyra believes her alcoholic mother, who has been sober for five years, has relapsed and with no one to count on, not even her best friend, she starts to question whether being just enough is not enough at all"--
8) Break
Author
Series
Click volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her...
Author
Series
Marcus volume 2
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After Marcus's movie goes viral and he gets an invite to the Helen show, he experiences the challenges of sudden fame and risks losing the friends who helped him along the way.
12) Wires crossed
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Author
Series
Hope (Alyssa Milano) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part of the science project that they suggested, but Hope...
Author
Series
Oliver's great big universe volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Oliver has a lot going on starting his first year of middle school--new friends, new classes, new everything. But at least there's one thing that still makes sense: science! Determined to be an astrophysicist one day, Oliver explains everything he learns--like how the sun burps, how ghost particles fly through you, the uncanny similarities between Mercury and cafeteria meatballs, and most important, how the Big Bang is basically just like a fart...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series continues in graphic novel form as aspiring spy Ben Ripley must spend his summer in top-secret training—and is thrown back into danger. Ben Ripley is a middle schooler whose school is not exactly average—he’s spent the last year training to be a top-level spy and dodging all sorts of associated danger. So now that summer’s finally here, Ben would like to have some fun and...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Will loves playing center midfield on his middle school soccer team. This year, though, Will hasn't felt like himself; his stomach has been bothering him, and he has no energy at all. When his new doctor diagnoses him with Crohn's disease, Will hopes that means he'll start feeling better soon and he can get back to playing with his team before the season ends. But Will's new medicines come with all kinds of side effects, Forced to sit out afternoon...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You can't win 'em all-- especially when you're slumping sixth-grader Nate Wright. Stuck in a cycle of misfortune, our hero finds an unlikely good luck charm... and suddenly, he can do no wrong! He finds a $20 bill, scores a C+ on his social studies test (nailed it!), and even lands a movie date with the captain of the cheer squad. But the high times can't last forever. Before long, Nate's epic hot streak has gone ice cold, thanks to all-time hair...
18) The retake
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zoe knows that the only thing harder than middle school is losing a best friend. She and Laura used to do everything together from taking silly selfies, to joining all the same clubs together and even throwing surprise birthday parties for one another. But lately things have been weird between them. Now Laura will post a photo of her hanging out with other girls before responding to Zoe's simple text. She doesn't even want to sit with her at lunch...
19) The Do More Club
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A Jewish boy's bravery and kindness are tested after an antisemitic attack on his middle school in this rousing novel-in-verse. Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family's mailbox in third grade, he has felt uncomfortable about his Jewish identity. At a new school where he's pretty sure he's the only Jew, he's hoping to just keep religion out of everything ... until the morning someone sprays swastikas all over...
Author
Series
What happens next? volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Megan Hathaway was supposed to be helping put together a newspaper for her English class...but everything is going wrong. Weird Randall keeps trying to mail potatoes, evil Vice-Principal Mr. Fisher has imprisoned the class's best artist, and...oh geez...Olivia just yarked in a trombone! Can you help Megan save school journalism?! Or will you let Sunbright Middle School's secrets remain hidden forever?! With more than twenty-five different endings,...
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