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1) Swim team
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bree can't wait for her first day at her new middle school, Enith Brigitha, home to the Mighty Manatees--until she's stuck with the only elective that fits her schedule, the dreaded Swim 101. The thought of swimming makes Bree more than a little queasy, yet she's forced to dive headfirst into one of her greatest fears. Lucky for her, Etta, an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain, is willing to help"--
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Moving on with her Cupcake Club friends despite lingering resentment over being ditched by her former best friend for a more popular group, Katie resolves to confront Callie and struggles to find ways to repair the friendship.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned.
4) Ali Cross
Author
Series
Ali Cross volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Cross' son, Ali, is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?
5) Posted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When five kids are invited to a cemetery at midnight, they think it's just a prank. When they find a gravestone that instructs them to dig up a grave, they think it's just a joke. It's no joke. An evil force is unleashed - a force that takes the shape of their worst fears. Once these fears are released, they won't go away. Not without a fight--"--
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evelyn befriends Queen, the new boy in town, who does not seem to get fazed by bullies and lives by his own rules, and soon begins to learn new things about the world and herself.
Author
Series
Diary of a 6th grade ninja volume 1
Publisher
Emerson Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
6th-grader Chase Cooper shares his experiences starting at a different school where he only knows his cousin Zoe, and he is recruited into a group of school-aged ninjas.
Author
Series
Diary of a 6th grade ninja volume 3
Publisher
Emerson Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Someone steals the book bag of 6th-grader Chase Cooper and things get worse from there. Now Chase is number one on the Buchanan School's most wanted list and he discovers the Red Ninja Clan. Ninjas never quit - and neither do their enemies.
10) Falling short
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
11) 12 before 13
Author
Series
Friendship list novel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspired by the success of their first birthday bucket list, Ari and her BFF Kaylan set twelve new goals for the next school year. And number one is 'keep our friendship strong.' But after a life-changing summer at camp, Ari feels torn between Kaylan and her camp friends. And as she faces down everything from boys to bat mitzvahs, Ari needs to figure out how to be her best self - before her friends come together at her thirteenth birthday party....
12) Queen bee
Author
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be super-popular in her new middle-school.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Big Nate, who is always notoriously unprepared for class, turns to divine intervention to spare him! Aspiring cartoonist Nate Write is the star of "Big Nate", the daily and Sunday comic strip. As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Leave it to Big Nate to stake his claim on anything in reach! Aspiring cartoonist Nate Write is the star of "Big Nate", the daily and Sunday comic strip. As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his family and...
Author
Series
Diary of a 6th grade ninja volume 7
Publisher
Emerson Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Buchanan School is holding an election for new class president, and Chase Cooper's sister, Zoe, is running. Meanwhile, Chase refuses to join a Scavenger club, who then responds by trying to ruin Chase with every opportunity. Everyone seems to hate him now, and a reporter tries to expose his secret ninja clan to the school. Worst. Week. Ever.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. He is sure that having a friend by his side will help. But how can he make one? Alex devises a plan to impress the kids at school by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. This should be a walk in the park, right? If only. It turns out that finding a friend is harder than Alex...
Author
Series
Cupcake Diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the first book, after her best friend moves on, Katie finds a new group of friends and they form the Cupcake Club. Katie is miserable when her best friend is invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katie is left out. Is there an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? Luckily, Katie finds her way with a great new group of friends--Mia, Emma, and Alexis--and...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ginny makes a to do list for her seventh grade year, which includes landing a role in the school play, trying to make friends, ignoring her horoscope, and going to see her grandpa Joe in Florida; but she always seems to come up short in accomplishing any of it.
Author
Series
Diary of a 6th grade ninja volume 2
Publisher
Emerson Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
At the school 6th-grader Chase Cooper attends, everyone is talking like a pirate. Soon there are rumors of a pirate invasion and now the entire school is in danger. Only Chase can save it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Can I, Jamie Grimm, teach other kids how to be super funny? Think it's hard being a stand-up comedian in a wheelchair? Try teaching a comedy class to bored middle schoolers! I have no idea where to start. Do I assign homework? Should I give tests? Or do I just fall flat on my face and hope that gets a laugh?
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