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1) Bluefish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide a learning disability, when he meets a remarkable teacher and a sassy classmate with her own secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Formats
Description
When his younger brother is diagnosed with leukemia, thirteen-year-old Steven tries to deal with his complicated emotions, his school life, and his desire to support his family.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A must-read for budding young feminists, The Prettiest is an incisive, empowering novel by Brigit Young about young women fighting back against sexism and objectification. THE PRETTIEST: It's the last thing Eve Hoffmann expected to be, the only thing Sophie Kane wants to be, and something Nessa Flores-Brady knows she'll never be ... until a list appears online, ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade. Eve is disgusted by the way...
5) Unfriended
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"When thirteen-year-old Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table, she finds herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings, made unescapable by the hyperconnected social media world"--
7) Bully.com
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Wrongly accused of cyberbullying, seventh-grader Jun Li, a brilliant student, more comfortable around computers than people, has seven days to find the real culprit or face explusion.
Author
Series
How to rock volume 2
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Comapny
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kacey Simon's jealousy threatens her popularity when her new crush Zander's ex-girlfriend and former lead singer, Stevie, arrives in town.
9) Freak
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
11) Lily and Dunkin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Formats
Description
"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Told from three viewpoints, thirteen-year-old scientific genius Lenny Cyrus shrinks himself and, helped by his best friend Harlan, enters the body of Zooey, the girl he has loved since third grade, hoping to physically change her mind about him on the very day her play opens.
Author
Series
How to rock volume 1
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
When popular middle schooler Kacey Simon gets glasses and braces and is rejected by her crowd, she befriends a boy who is in a punk rock band and discovers some things about friendship, relationships, and herself.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After half-heartedly joining his church youth group's project at a homeless shelter near his Brooklyn middle school, eighth-grade "loser" Reggie McKnight is inspired to run for school office on a platform of making a real difference in the community.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the start of eighth grade, Maggie is really, truly, 100 percent happy. She's successfully maintained her weight, moved into a beautiful new house, and best of all fallen in love. Maggie wants nothing more than to bask in the joy of having a boyfriend. But nothing ever comes that easy.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.
18) Hummingbird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Olive suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life. When she is finally allowed to attend school in person, she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy. Olive hopes to find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby. If she can prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted.
19) Drama
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
20) Bystander
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are consequences to not standing by and watching as the bully at his new school hurts people, but although school officials are aware of the problem, Eric may be the one with a solution.
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