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This Teen guide collects various types of information of benefit and interest to students at a high school age.
1) Click
Author
Series
Click volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
Formats
Description
"When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to join, she wonders why all of her friends have already formed their own groups without her."--
2) Witchlings
Author
Series
Witchlings series volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every year, in the magical town of Ravenskill, Witchlings who participate in the Black Moon Ceremony are placed into covens and come into their powers as full-fledged witches. And twelve-year-old Seven Salazar can't wait to be placed in the most powerful coven with her best friend! But on the night of the ceremony, in front of the entire town, Seven isn't placed in one of the five covens. She's a Spare! Spare covens have fewer witches, are less powerful,...
Author
Publisher
LifeTree Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Girls today face an astounding degree of pressure to grow up fast. They yearn to connect, but sometimes this yearning turns into negative, even destructive behavioral patterns such as gossiping, being passive aggressive or mean, becoming screen-addicted, or disengaging from school. It's heartbreaking to watch even the most confident little girls disconnect and lose their sparkle as they hit the preteen years. In Growing Strong Girls, Lindsay Sealey...
4) Willodeen
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 E-Audio Books
Children's New Books: September 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's New Books: September 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Formats
Description
When the annual migration of hummingbears, a source of local pride and income, dwindles and no one knows why, Willodeen, armed with a magical birthday gift, speaks up for the animals she loves and vows to uncover this mystery.
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lizzy Sherman believes there are signs everywhere that can help her keep her family safe, so when she begins helping a runaway girl her own age--a stranger to their small town in Maine--Lizzy hopes that she, too, can protect Lizzy's family.
Author
Publisher
HarperColllins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
It is the early 1980s and fifteen-year-old Libby is obsessed with trees. One night, while driving home, her mother, exhausted and overwhelmed with the fighting in the backseat, pulls over and orders Libby's little sister Ellen to walk home. What none of this family knows as they drive off leaving a twelve-year-old girl on the side of the road five miles from home with darkness closing in, is what will happen next.
Author
Series
Gwendy novels volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....
Author
Series
Popularity papers volume 5
Publisher
Amulet Paperbacks, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Lydia and Julie decide to start a rock band with their friends; unfortunately, none of them are very good musicians and suddenly the whole school knows about their band and wants to hear them play.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ava Andrews has a Technicolor interior with a gray shell. On the inside, she bubbles with ideas and plans. On the outside, everyone except her best friend, Zelia, thinks she doesn't talk or, worse, is stuck-up. What nobody knows is that Ava has invisible disabilities: anxiety and a heart condition.Ava hopes middle school will be a fresh start, but when Zelia moves across the country and Ava's Nana Linda pushes her to speak up about...
Author
Series
Frazzled volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Abbie Wu is FRAZZLED as she navigates locker thieves, diabolical cats, and other hazards of middle school. Things are looking up for Abbie Wu: this year she'll run for class president and get a brand-new shiny locker. Until--she doesn't ... Not only does she discover that her locker has been hijacked by a complete stranger, but it turns out the culprit also happens to be her new science partner. To make matters worse, there's an addition to the...
Author
Series
Frazzled volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Nervous about middle school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what they want to do, Abbie Wu searches for her own passion before discovering a knack for leadership when injustices in the cafeteria come to light.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In Muffuletta, being good at eating is the key to success. French fries and grilled cheese? Beginner food! Haggis and truffles? Delicacies! After failing a school eating test, picky eater Minerva is placed in the lowest eating track of all: Remedial Eating to Change Habits. RETCH class is full of kids with weird personalities and even weirder food preferences. And to make matters worse, Minerva's best friends, in the Gifted and Gourmet class, no longer...
Author
Series
Popularity papers volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang are as ready as they'll ever be to start junior high. But before they can try out the lessons they've learned about friendship and popularity, tragedy strikes: Lydia's mom is moving her family to London for six months. Separated for the first time, each of the girls must face bullies, secrets, and the challenge of standing up for herself. With the help of their trusty notebook, they try to keep in...
17) Act
Author
Series
Click volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
Formats
Description
"Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds! But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard--even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student council election! With intense campaign competition and emotions running...
18) Witchlings
Author
Series
Witchlings series volume 1
Publisher
Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
Español
Description
Una aventura que confirma que la amistad es la magia más poderosa. Cada año, las jóvenes witchlings participan en la ceremonia de la Luna Negra, donde son destinadas a diferentes casas, y consiguen tener plenos poderes como brujas. Siete Salazar ha trabajado muy duro para que la seleccionen en la Casa del Jacinto. Pero nada sale según lo planeado. Es más, ¡no la seleccionan en ninguna casa y pasa a ser una bruja de repuesto! Ella, junto a Valle...
19) Barakah Beats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: December 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Children's Recommended: Best of 2021 School Library Journal
Description
"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
20) Sweet and sour
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Mai has been contemplating revenge on her former best friend Zach ever since he humiliated her two years ago, but while spending time together for the summer, Mai has noticed a change in Zach, forcing her to decide if she can forgive him, even if she can never forget.
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