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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Stonewall Book Awards
Children's: New e-Audiobooks February 2023
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Children's: New e-Audiobooks February 2023
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Formats
Description
Stonewall Book Awards—Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Honor Book
From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me and the Schneider Family Book Award Winner Forever Is Now, comes a coming-of-age story surrounding the losses that threaten to break us and the friendships that make us whole again.
Thirteen-year-old Andi feels stranded after the loss
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For thirteen-year-old Rachel, summer is meant to be a time of long days of swimming at the lake and hanging out with her best friend, Micah. And this year she has a summer job, taking care of the animals at the small hobby farm across the road. The chickens and pig are challenging, but she loves looking after the gentle horses and goats, and especially the adorable baby steer. At home, though, things are complicated. Her parents seem more worries...
3) Dear Mothman
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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2023 Winter Kit Reading List - Middle School
Children's New Books: October 2023 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
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Children's New Books: October 2023 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Novels in Verse
More Lists...
Formats
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Stonewall Book Awards
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Stonewall Book Awards
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Description
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_Chapter Books
Summer 2023 Must Reads — Middle School
Formats
Description
"When Donovan left his copy of The Adventurers on the kitchen counter, he didn't think his mom would read it--much less have a problem with it. It's just an adventure novel about two characters trying to stop an evil genius, right? But soon the entire town is freaking out about whether the book's main characters are gay, Donovan's mom is trying to get the book removed from the school curriculum, and Donovan is caught in the middle. Donovan doesn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Formats
Description
"Rahul Kapoor is heading into seventh grade in a small town in Indiana. The start of middle school is making him feel increasingly anxious, so his favorite person in the whole world, his grandfather Bhai, gives him some well-meaning advice: Find one thing you're really good at. And become the BEST at it. Those four little words sear themselves into Rahul's brain. While he's not quite sure what that special thing is, he is convinced that once he finds...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle school student Sam is comfortable with their nonbinary identity, and their family has accepted it too (as long as they do their homework and chores), so when their history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) they and their friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they...
Author
Series
Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."
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