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1) Joshua Dread
Author
Series
Joshua Dread volume 1
Language
English
Description
Besides being bullied, Joshua faces one more obstacle in middle school, trying to hide his identity as the son of supervillains, the Dread Duo.
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Language
English
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Read AAPI Voices
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Books for Middle Grade
Read AAPI Voices
¡Celebre Día! / Celebrate Día!
Description
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves. Includes author's note.
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Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Language
English
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Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
Library Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
Staff Picks--Black History Month 2024 Edition
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
7) Twerp
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Hannah's up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother's penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea--Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered and she's the prime suspect. Even with his reputation for being a bully, Mayor Bascomb--or "Ricky Ticky," as Hannah's mother likes to call him--had been unusually...
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Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Marc's uncle Jake has a plan to turn Marc into a warrior during the summer so Marc can stand up to Kenny the class bully.
11) Virtually me
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Language
English
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"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
12) Absolution
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Language
English
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"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
13) The only game
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
Español
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After breaking his arm during the first day of try-outs last season, Robby is determined to make the football team this year, but to do so he must face his own fears and the bully who tackled him the year before.
Después de fracturarse el brazo durante el día de pruebas de la temporado pasada, Robby está convencido de formar parte del equipo este año. Aún si forma parte del equipo, no está seguro de tener la habilidad necesaria para conducir...
15) Rick
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Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Rick Ramsey has generally gone along with everybody, just not making waves, even though he is increasingly uncomfortable with his father's jokes about girls, and his best friend's explicit talk about sex; but now in middle school he discovers the Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities can express themselves--and maybe among them he can find new friends and discover his own identity, which may just be to opt...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A delightful new contemporary romance by Uzma Jalaluddin, author of Ayesha at Last. Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighborhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. And while Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a far cry from realizing her dreams for her tech baby, Ask Apa, the app that launched with a whimper...
17) Felix yz
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Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: When Felix Yz was three years old, a hyperintelligent fourth-dimensional being became fused inside him after one of his father?s science experiments went terribly wrong. The creature is friendly, but Felix?now thirteen?won?t be able to grow to adulthood while they?re still melded together. So a risky Procedure is planned to separate them . . . but it may end up killing them both instead. This book is Felix?s secret blog, a chronicle...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Three brothers and their friends are on the poor side of the rich-poor divide in their small town. When members of both groups show signs of friendliness to the other, those who want things to stay the way they are seek to punish the transgressors.
19) Remarkables
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
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