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2) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind. But her parents have decided she is a waste of space. And her headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, is a terrible bully who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up. It's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story and show them just how extraordinary children can be.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
4) Dear Justyce
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Popular: Funny Chapter Books
Children's Read Alikes: Dork Diaries
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Dork Diaries
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
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Series
Language
English
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When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created "perfect" life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Honor for Latino Literature
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Children's Special Topics: Hispanic Heritage Month 2023
Description
When Naomi's absent mother resurfaces to claim her, Naomi runs away to Mexico with her great-grandmother and younger brother in search of her father.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
10) The obsession
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
11) Nellie's promise
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nellie O'Malley finally has a home again. She and her little sisters, Bridget and Jenny, are happily settling in with Samantha's family in New York City ..."
12) The do-over
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a dumpster fire of a Valentine's Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother's house for some comfort. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she's back home in her own bed-- and it's Valentine's Day all over again. And the next day. And the next. Emilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare: re-watching her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. And she keeps running into Nick-- sometimes literally-- in unfortunate...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marly's family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's New Books: March 2022 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: Black History Month 2022
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
16) Starfish
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
17) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is very good at lying and doing so makes life easier, but when he finds himself in big trouble with his friends, family, and teachers, he must find a way to end his lies forever.
19) Towers falling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Blackwood is really good at getting the girl she wants, but coming from a broken home with an alcoholic mother, she finds commitment difficult - even when she thinks she is in love. Impossibly awkward Molly Parker has a crush on the cool Cora Myers, but she does not know how to even start a conversation, much less make a connection. At college together in Pittsburgh, Alex decides that helping Molly snag Cora will prove to her own flame that she...
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