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Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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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: New e-Books February 2023
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
6) Cabin fever
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley is the prime suspect when it is discovered that school property has been damaged, but when a surprise blizzard hits and school is closed, Greg is stuck indoors with his family, unable to prove his innocence.
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.
8) 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...
9) 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?"--
10) The ugly truth
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
11) The unteachables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
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
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
12) Linked
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
13) The last straw
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
14) Jedi Academy
Author
Series
Jedi Academy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Children’s Recommended: 3rd/4th Grade Series for Boys
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
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Description
"My whole life I planned on going to pilot school like the rest of my friends--then I got rejected! Along came a little green guy named Yoda who invited me to Jedi Academy. Now I'm at a school with aliens, robots, and lightsaber-wielding bullies who can lift things with their minds! How am I supposed to compete with that? As if starting middle school wasn't hard enough ..." The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics,...
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 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is...
18) Framed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
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.
20) You go first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
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.
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