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Author
Series
Frazzled volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nervous about middle school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what they want to do, Abbie Wu searches for her own passion before discovering a knack for leadership when injustices in the cafeteria come to light.
3) Notorious
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
4) Liar & spy
Author
Language
English
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.
5) Squint
Author
Language
English
Description
Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader and self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright faces his all-time enemy, Gina, when they are paired to work on a research paper together and she also gets a position on his intramural team.
Author
Series
Payton and Emma Mills books volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grade twins Payton and Emma switch places, they shake up the social hierarchy at their new middle school.
8) Dress coded
Author
Language
English
Description
"An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion"--
10) Ungifted
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
11) The unteachables
Author
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. But Khosrou's stories are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the refugee camps of Italy, and further back to Isfahan."--
14) Posted
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities in the wake of a new girl's arrival.
15) It wasn't me
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Theo's photography project is vandalized, the five students nearby all claim it was not them, so Theo's favorite teacher suggests they all spend vacation week together and get to the truth.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Starting to emerge from her shell in the months after devastating losses, Annie Lee takes piano lessons from an elderly mall pianist before his disappearance forces her to break a promise to a new friend.
19) Star-crossed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
Author
Series
[Underbelly] volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Doug Underbelly strives to be a normal middle-schooler, but as secret King of the Mole People, weird things are attracted to him.
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