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1) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
2) Big shot
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Formats
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.
4) You go first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
5) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Miss Know-It-All's inbox overflows with pleas for guidance, Nikki Maxwell, the school newspaper advice columnist, turns to her best friends for help.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki Maxwell is determined to help out Brandon save an animal shelter, but when she and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money for the shelter, Mackenzie has to stick her nose in and cause trouble.
8) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
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Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
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Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki tries to be a pet sitter, but realizes it's harder work than she thought.
12) I am drums
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A single-minded twelve-year-old drummer, challenged by her school's budget cuts and her family's financial woes, must find a way to keep her dreams of drumming alive"--
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
16) Brave like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Assigned to attend her archnemesis Mackenzie Hollister's new school for the student exchange week program, Nikki is surprised to learn that there are students at the school even meaner than Mackenzie.
19) The mighty Odds
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
Told in their four voices, a diverse group of middle schoolers comes together to try to figure out the bus accident that gave each a bizarre, limited superpower.
20) Supergifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After years of attending a school for gifted children, Noah finds himself at a normal school where he immediately ends up on the wrong side of a cheerleading captain and a jock.
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