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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It all begins with a fugitive billionaire and the promise of a cash reward. Turtles All the Way Down is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 4th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Patron Request 11/8/2023
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Patron Request 11/8/2023
Formats
Description
After fainting during a school assembly, Stanley uses his time in a safe room to begin drawing a comic book superhero and then enters a treasure hunt so that he can win passes to Comic Fest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children’s New Books: April 2023 Middle Grade Chapter Books
2023 Winter Kit Reading List - Middle School
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
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2023 Winter Kit Reading List - Middle School
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
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Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.
Author
Series
Kiki Kallira volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Drawn into the mystical world she created, 11-year-old Kiki Kallira must battle against her fear and anxiety to save two worlds--the real and imagined--from the wrath of an ancient deity bent on total destruction.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Marianne's parents have finally split up; and her mother has checked herself into the hospital. Marianne's own life hasn't been the same since she quit dancing. Then she start losing time, doing things she would never do. And objects around her seem to break whenever she comes close. Something is after her... and the only one who seems to believe her is the daughter of a local psychic. When their first attempt at an exorcism calls down the full force...
Author
Series
Kiki Kallira volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When Mysore's only source of water vanishes, Kiki returns to the fabulous kingdom, but she must first overcome her mounting anxiety in order to save the kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
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Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse for Middle Schoolers
Description
¿Cómo expresarte cuando sientes que nadie te escucha? En esta conmovedora novela en verso ̶ que Lisa Fipps, autora galardonada con un Printz Honor Award, llama "potente" ̶ , una niña enfrenta su segundo año de escuela intermedia mientras lidia con problemas de salud mental. Deberá encontrar la manera de usar su voz para pedir la ayuda y la comprensión que merece.
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and...
15) In the key of us
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's New Books: November 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Description
While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
16) The warning
Author
Series
Warning volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like most high school seniors, Alexandra Lucas is caught between living in the moment and an unknown future. Her anxiety disorder doesn't make that any easier. But she's coping--until her train stops on the way home from a concert with her boyfriend. At first, she's worried about breaking curfew. Then terror echoes through their train car. A mysterious doorway has appeared beside the tracks, and a hologram claiming to be a human from the future shares...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's New Books: October 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Read in Full Bloom: Middle Schoolers
Description
Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
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