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1) 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
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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 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet crush Brandon, dealing with her zany little sister Brianna's antics--and the immediate clashes with mean girl Mackenzie, who becomes Nikki's rival in a schoolwide art competition.--
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.
4) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
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Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
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.
6) 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.
7) 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.
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After navigating middle school, ninth-grader Aven, born without arms, struggles with the challenges of high school, which test her confidence, strength, and sense of self.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction for Middle Grades
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Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
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
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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
Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--
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) Zombie invasion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lucy overhears the headmaster of Overworld Academy make plans to take over Overworld, she has trouble convincing her friends to take a stand against the evil rising in their world.
20) Firegirl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
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