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1) Wonder
Author
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
"Everybody has a story to tell - even the bully. This special edition of Wonder includes the original ebook bestseller The Julian Chapter,...
3) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Jacky "Ha-Ha" Hart is a class clown with a penchant for pranking--and when she's required to act in the school play to appease her frustrated teachers, she must conquer her stutter"--
4) You go first
Author
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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.
5) Bluefish
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everything changes for thirteen-year-old Travis, a new student who is trying to hide his illiteracy, when he meets a sassy classmate with her own secrets and a remarkable teacher.
7) Lucky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security--as well as Phoebe's social status--but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.
8) Liar & spy
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
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.
10) Wink
Author
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader. He doesn't want to lose his hair, or wear a weird hat, or deal with the disappearing friends who don't know what to say to 'the cancer kid.' But with his recent diagnosis of a rare eye cancer, blending in is off the table. Based on the author's real life experience" --
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.
12) Restart
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2014], 2015.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.
Author
Series
Perfect score volume 1
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In a story told from different viewpoints, five sixth-graders, facing various challenges and under pressure to do well on statewide assessment tests, agree to a plan for acing the tests.
16) Brave like that
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.
Cyrus Olsons dad is a heroNorthfields former football star and now one of their finest firefighters. Everyone expects Cyrus to follow in his dads record-breaking footsteps, and he wishes they were rightexcept hes never been brave like that. But this year, with the help of...
17) Rivals
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season. Told through flashbacks, newspaper reports, social media posts, and interviews.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Description
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin's transition from tomboy basketball player to not-quite-girly girl.
Author
Series
Perfect score volume 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Told from different viewpoints, five seventh-graders, who face their own personal challenges, are also determined as a group to help two very special people reconcile a long-standing dispute" --
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