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1) Slugfest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School-so good, in fact, that he’s already playing on the high school's JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency-PEE, also known as "Slugfest" in summer school. Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor...
Author
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012, 2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A boy contemplates all the horrible stories he has heard about the art teacher, Krayolla Swamp, the strange things she has in her classroom, and how she expects her students to express themselves.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
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Series
Total mayhem volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Dash starts to wonder what's going on when mysterious tire marks and strange sounds start coming from Moremi Forest, next to Swedhump Elementary. When he and his friend Rob go to investigate, they can't work out what's going on. All they know is...they're being watched. Soon the weirdness spreads to Swedhump. Trails of leaves appear between classrooms. A teacher acts even more strangely than normal. Even bed-jumping class doesn't feel entirely safe"--...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Brian knows that anxiety and depression aren't things that are magically fixed overnight, but he still doesn't understand why it's all hitting him so hard right now. Sure, his dad is still in prison and middle school is still stressful, but he's seeing a therapist, he's got good friends, and he's doing really well on the basketball team. He should be fine, so why does he feel too tired to get out of bed some days? And why does he turn into "Cursed...
Author
Series
Misfits volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
Author
Series
Pretty boy detective club volume 3
Publisher
Vertical, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 4
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
Author
Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Elliott D'Angelo-Brandt is sick and tire of putting up with it all. Every week, she attends a support group for teen victims of sexual assault, but all they do is talk. Elliott's done with talking. What she wants is justice. And she has a plan for getting it: a spell book that she found in her late mom's belongings that actually works. Elliott recruits a coven of fellow survivors from the group. She, Madeline, Chloe, and Bea don't have much in common,...
Author
Series
Total mayhem volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Dash and his friends Rob and Greta are used to unusual things happening at their school, Swedhump Elementary. But even they pay attention when their invisible principal, Mrs. Rosebank, announces that they have a special guest: Ms. Aqualine, the owner of the new Aqualina Water Park...It turns out there's more to this water park than splishing and splashing. There's something very evil going on, and instead of soaking it up, Dash and his friends are...
Author
Series
Total mayhem volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021, 2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Excitement is spreading through the halls of Dash Candoo's school. The Face-Pulling Championships are about to begin, featuring students holding their faces in such positions as the Vibrating Jaw-Drop with Eye-Roll and the Dripping Stare of Death. Dash and his classmates have been getting ready for this day for ages. But then, suddenly, right before the championship, blue spots appear on everyone's faces...except for Gronville Honkersmith's face,...
13) Unstuck
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A middle grade novel about a girl whose struggles with anxiety and writer's block set off unexpected twists and turns, both on and off the page.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023
Description
"Angelina Ballerina's little sister, Polly, is starting school for the first time, and she feels very shy. Angelina finds a way to help Polly make friends, and she thinks up a wonderful ballet surprise to welcome Polly and all the little mouselings to Chipping Cheddar Elementary. She is the best big sister ever!"--
Author
Publisher
Common Deer Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A spark ignites inside fourteen-year-old Iz Beaufort when she hears school music group Manifesto perform. Even though she hasn't written a song since That Place, she recognizes herself in the moving performance and longs to be part of the group, certain that they might actually understand her. But Manifesto is based at the prestigious Métier School, and Iz has bounced through twenty-six foster homes. Plus, there's no way Dominion Children's Care...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Anna Lapera expertly voices a young girl's middle school trials, but with a voice so unique and heartfelt you will be cringing one moment and cheering the next. She weaves a distinctive story filled with humor, family heartache, and secrets while a young girl releases the fear of her voice and grasps its power."
- Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera
For fans of Donna Barba Higuera's Lupe Wong Won't Dance and Aida Salazar's The Moon Within, comes...
Author
Series
Jane Austen mystery volume 15
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"March 1817: As winter turns to spring, Jane Austen's health is in slow decline, and threatens to cease progress on her latest manuscript. But when her nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds--and...
18) Medusa
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Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Description
"A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Sophomore Kalvin Shmelton has finally perfected his underground candy-selling hustle at school. He keeps his prices reasonable, his inventory fresh, and himself out of the drama. But when a heartbroken Sterling Glistern, Kal's longtime crush, barges into the storage closet where he keeps his candy supply, a new source of income unexpectedly presents itself: relationship therapist. He only meant to help Sterling realize she's dating a jerk, and maybe...
Author
Series
Blue period volume 12
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023, 2022
Description
"Yatora's back on campus for year two and suprises abound. He's greeted by an old friend and then gets bombarded with new friends, instructors, and assignments! But one day, when Yatora encounters an artists' commune, he begins to question if TUA is really the right place for him..."--
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