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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Tricky Topics: Talking about Immigrants & Refugees with Children
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Printz Medal | Winners And Honorees | 2020-Current
Tricky Topics: Talking about Immigrants & Refugees with Children
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Publisher Annotation: At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying,...
2) Posted
Author
Language
English
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Description
When cellphones at school are banned, the students start leaving sticky notes around the school to communicate, but things escalate for they are not always nice messages.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 24
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Alexis prepares a valentine for her crush, but is worried he might not share her feelings.
4) Tampa
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel, "Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship--car rides after dark, rendezvous at...
Author
Series
Garbage Pail Kids volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Welcome to the town of Smellville, where ten kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much fun as they possibly can. People may think that they?re gross and weird and strange, but they?re not bad kids?they just don?t know any better. In this hilarious new illustrated series from bestselling author R.L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids?from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janey?get into mischief at their middle school, all while battling...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of...
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Language
English
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2021 National Book Award Longlists, Finalists, & WINNERS
2022 Youth Media Awards
2024 Youth Media Awards
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2022 Youth Media Awards
2024 Youth Media Awards
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Description
Publisher Annotation: It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to...
8) Eighth grade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.
10) Becoming Brianna
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Everyone knows how much brainy Bri likes the spotlight (not). So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at school and home?! As the big event inches closer, Bri wonders if it?s all worth it.
11) No brainer
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it s up to Greg to save his crumbling school before it s shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different...
12) Almost flying
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2022 Youth Media Awards
Rainbow Reads for Young Readers
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
Rainbow Reads for Young Readers
Tricky Topics: Talking About Sexuality and Gender with Children
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this unabashedly queer middle grade debut, a week-long amusement park road trip becomes a true roller coaster of emotion when Dalia realizes she has more-than-friend feelings for her new bestie.
Publisher
Haut et Court
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Based on Bégaudeau's semi-autographical book Entre Les Murs (Between the Walls) "The Class" dramatizes a year in the life of a middle school in an immigrant heavy, multiracial neighborhood in Paris. The students are also nonprofessionals, and classroom sessions were improvised from workshops around specific themes. The documentary-approach to the filming puts the lie to the one-teacher-can-make-a-difference myth propagated by so many other films...
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Language
English
Description
I'm Finn McAllister, I'm a normal middle schooler, and on June sixth I died. I know, I know--you weren't expecting me to die so soon. Me neither. But dying is just the beginning of my story. You see, now I'm a ghost! I've made a new friend, too. She's also a ghost. It's pretty neat, huh? Only thing is, I have some unfinished business. And until I, well, finish it, I can't really move on...
15) Laugh out loud
Author
Language
English
Description
Imaginative middle schooler Jimmy follows his dream to start a unique book company while he is still a child.
16) Inside Out
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions: Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life.
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