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1) Blubber
Author
Language
English
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
2) Force out
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Joey has to compete with his best friend, Zach, for a single spot on an elite baseball team, he is forced to decide how far he is willing to go to win"--
3) Twerp
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
4) Pinocula
Author
Series
Creature from my closet volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pinocula, a cross between Pinocchio and a vampire, is going to drive Rob crazy. He lies and is a jokester that came from Rob's closet.
Author
Series
Lemonade war series volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this gripping, funny addition to the bestselling Lemonade War series, both Jessie and her brother Evan find themselves unexpectedly cast as outsiders. How they find their way forward makes for a timeless story about the power of courage and kindness.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by her late grandmother, thirteen-year-old Nina spends a summer secretly doing good deeds for her neighbors and enjoying the changes she brings about, even as she is dealing with changing friendships and family issues.
Author
Series
Ms. Rapscott's girls volume 1
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"--
11) Ted & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Stosh travels back in time to 1941 in hopes of preventing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War II, he meets Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. Includes notes about Williams' life and career.
12) Among the free
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
13) Hero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An accident at school brings quiet, imaginative Leo to the attention of the popular crowd but their expectations have him misbehaving and cause him to lose his best friend, George, so when a neighbor's dog is trapped by a meteor strike Leo becomes a real hero in hopes of setting things right.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town, accepts his teacher's challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: do a good deed for three people and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to 'pay it forward' to three others who need help"--
Author
Series
The Wormling volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Owen Reeder, the Wormling, faces a final battle with the Dragon, strengthened by his reading of The Book of the King and the knowledge that his friends and his very weakness can see him through his greatest challenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
As Christmas approaches, Katie makes time to help others find the Christmas spirit as the magic wind first switches her with a Christmas tree farm employee, then with an unusual character at North Pole Winter Fun Park.
Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tris tries to save his doughnut business and town of Petersville, New York, by competing on a cooking show.
18) Cake
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Wilma Sue is wary of the eccentric sisters, Ruth and Naomi, at her new foster home, but wonders if she might have a true home with them, baking and delivering cakes and tending their chickens, until she is implicated in a series of neighborhood crimes.
19) The paper cowboy
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
Author
Series
Books of Ember volume 3
Language
English
Description
Nickie is from Yonwood, where one of their citizens is having a prophecy of complete devastation.
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