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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Oliver and Nathan, determined to get to the bottom of their new homeroom teacher's fishy behavior, discover Mr. Aidact is actually an AI robot from a secret experimental program.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
4) Liar & spy
Author
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
©2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Author
Series
Beanboy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
7) Flirt Club
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Through notes and journal entries, best friends and self-proclaimed "drama geeks" Cisco (Izzy) and the Bean (Annie) write of the trials of middle school, as well as their efforts to attract boys by forming a Flirt Club.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grade siblings Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas, each dealing differently with their tense and unpredictable household, are changed and united in unexpected ways by the fateful launch of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Told from their different points of view, aspiring rocket scientist Ro and introverted artist Benji become science class partners and unlikely friends, together setting out to build a rocket and search for Benji's long-lost father using clues in his favorite comic books series.
10) The unteachables
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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.
11) Warp speed
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
12) McKenna
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Reading level: Ages 8 and up
Seattle fourth-grader McKenna Brooks, who lives for gymnastics, struggles with school work until Josie, a tutor confined to a wheelchair, helps her with reading comprehension and much more.
13) Wink
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can push him through treatment and survive middle school.
14) Runt
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From different perspectives, explores middle school bullying as Maggie, tired of Elizabeth Moon's superior attitude, creates a fake profile on a popular social networking site to teach Elizabeth a lesson.
15) The Bully Book
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this story told alternately through journal entries and instructions from a bullying manual, sixth-grader Eric embarks on a quest to find the reason why he is being teased and tormented in middle school.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"This sequel to The Adventures of Beanboy combines comic illustrations, a small-town bully facing off against a budding artist, and a rousing, decisive game of dodge ball"--
17) Sidekicked
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Drew Bean might be a part of a secret organization for the training of superhero sidekicks, but that doesn't mean that life is all leaping tall buildings in single bounds. Drew is possessed of super senses--his hearing, sight, taste, touch, and smell are the most powerful on the planet--making him literally the most sensitive kid in school. And then there's his best friend, Jenna--their friendship would be complicated enough if she weren't able to...
18) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
19) Slacker
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Janey, a quiet outsider, is inspired by the eccentric and enigmatic Captain Superlative, a masked superhero who runs through the halls of their middle school, performing radical acts of kindness.
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