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Series
Blue stars volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Description
"When cousins Riley Halfmoon and Maya Dawn move to Urbanopolis to live with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start. Outgoing Riley misses her Muscogee cousins but is sure that she and Maya will be instant BFFs. Meanwhile, introvert Maya misses her parents, on active duty in Japan, and just wants some space to herself. At school, Maya joins Robotics Club and Riley bonds with fellow gymnasts. Just when they start to feel at home, their...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The latest illustrated novel from Lincoln Peirce is a laugh-out-loud must-read starring the one and only cartooning genius, king of detention, and Cheez Doodle connoisseur, Nate Wright. Nate's not having the best of luck ... in fact; he's not having ANY luck. But with a little boost thanks to Chad's lucky foot, suddenly good luck is everywhere Nate turns! Nate's in the zone! But how long will it last?"
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The middle grade memoir of a girl boxer and future Olympian. In this Lean-In style inspirational memoir, twelve-year-old Jesselyn Silva offers a ringside seat to girl power and what it takes to win in the ring and in life: punch by punch. My Corner of the Ring shows kids what it means to be true to yourself and stick with your dreams even when facing adversity and ridicule. Supported by her single dad, Jesselyn (JessZilla in the ring) first donned...
Author
Series
Frazzled volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Abbie Wu is once again totally freaking out. Her science teacher is forcing her to work in pairs, and her partner is the new girl in school.
9) Fake blood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In order to get the attention of Nia, the girl he likes, eleven-year-old A.J. pretends to be a vampire, unaware that she intends to be a slayer.
Author
Series
Tegan and Sara volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Girous
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 180L
Description
Based on the young lives of Grammy-nominated indie-pop twin-sister duo Tegan & Sara, who have sold well over a million records, with artwork from Eisner Award-winner Tillie Walden, this opening book of a middle-grade graphic novel duology explores growing up, coming out, and finding yourself through music and sisterhood. Before the indie-pop duo Tegan & Sara took the world by storm, Tegan and Sara Quin were identical twins trying to find their place...
11) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Description
Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she'll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind she'll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it's not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. Impy falls in with a group of girls who seem really nice (until they don't)...
13) Goodbye stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend-- or more than friend-- Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
14) Trace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
A middle schooler who has recently lost both his parents sees a ghost wearing old-fashioned clothing in the basement of the New York Public Library.
Series
Streetball crew volume 2
Publisher
Disney * Hyperion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When eighth-grader Chris's older brother, Jax, is caught betting on the pick-up basketball games that Chris and his friends play, Chris becomes involved in the police investigation.
16) Freestyle
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things only get worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He ends up with a new tutor, Sunna, who...
17) Lizzy Legend
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Unhappy at not being allowed to play on the boys' basketball team, Lizzy Trudeau, thirteen, wishes to never miss another shot and soon finds herself playing in the NBA against her hero, the greatest player of all time.
18) Whatshisface
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
Marcus Vega is six feet tall, 180 pounds, and the owner of a premature mustache. When you look like this and you're only...
20) Next stop
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Description
Pia is a soft-spoken middle schooler whose life is turned upside down after the loss of her younger brother, followed by her parents' decision to move to a new town. In an effort to get her mind off of the troubles at home, Pia goes on a bus tour with a family friend, stopping at weird and wacky roadside attractions. The final destination: a mysterious underground lake. The locals say it has magical powers; Pia won't admit she believes in it, but...
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