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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For Merci Sùrez, eighth grade means a new haircut, nighttime football games, and an out-of-town overnight field trip. At home, it means more chores and keeping an eye on Lolo as his health worsens. It's a year filled with more responsibility and independence, but also with opportunities to reinvent herself. Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
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"In this empowering deconstruction of the so-called American Dream, a twelve-year-old Japanese American girl grapples with, and ultimately rises above, the racism and trials of middle school she experiences while chasing her dreams. As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big. And at the start of seventh grade, she's channeling that irrepressible hope into becoming the lead in her school...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Linette Moore's debut, middle-grade graphic novel, The Prisoner of Shiverstone, eleven-year-old Helga Sharp is found unconscious in a drifting rowboat near the coast of Utley Island. Utley, as Helga finds out when she awakens in the hospital, is forbidden territory: it's a prison island to which the Mainland has exiled troublesome mad scientists for generations. Helga is questioned by the island's guards and though they're suspicious of her story,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities--all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one unfair punishment after another. Can she get over it all...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Maya Reynolds has practically grown up in her family's Brooklyn pizza shop, Soul Slice, and is a true city girl. When her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania to open another pizza place, everything changes. Being the new girl is hard enough. At Soul Slice 2.0, Maya is assigned delivery duty. And her first delivery is a disaster. Can you make a worse impression than tripping . . . and falling face-first into a rude boy's pizza order? When...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of the Disney's Descendants adventures presents a debut entry in a fairy tale-inspired series that finds a bullied teen summoned by a character from her favorite books into a magical world that is being threatened by an evil queen.
9) Charmed life
Author
Series
Wildseed witch volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now back at Riverbend Middle, social media loving tween Hasani tries to prove her former friend, and fellow witch, LaToya, is responsible for the recent chaos at school.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this hourly time-stamped, action-packed tween comedy of errors, Abby Gray, feeling weighed down by her secrets and lies, lets five balloons float into the sky with her deepest secrets attached to them in a desperate attempt to clear her conscience. Her relief is short-lived, though: the next day, those balloons start dropping one by one at her school, revealing Abby’s innermost thoughts to both friends and frenemies and creating hilarious...
11) Project startup
Author
Series
Eat bugs volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Hallie and Jaye are both sixth graders at Brookdale Middle School, but they couldn't be more different. Jaye is one of the popular kids who'll do almost anything to maintain her status. Hallie's only friend has moved away, and she couldn't care less what anyone thinks of her. So when the two girls are paired up as partners for a pitch competition held by their Business Education and Entrepreneurship class, it's not exactly a perfect match. After...
12) Hedge over heels
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rayna is used to being the new kid at school. But that doesn't mean she wants to make new friends! Why bother when the military will only reassign her mom again soon anyway? No, the only friend Rayna wants is a furry, four-legged one. But instead of the dog she's been dreaming of, what Rayna gets is a hedgehog named Spike who is as prickly and emo as she is. Worse, Rayna's mom insists she enter Spike in a pet talent show to get to know some kids...
Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle's plans to bring her father and governess together are jeopardized when she investigates a murder and cursed treasure on a Scottish Island, and finds herself being hunted by another who will stop at nothing to find the treasure for themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Original North American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Can a sport klutz reach her dream and dance? A charming and hilarious, slice of life, middle grade graphic novel about ten year old Electra who refuses to give up her dream to take ballet. After moving, Ellie feels lonely in her new class. Mom has a solution, the girl needs to join the school's sports team to make friends. There is only one problem, no matter what sport she tries Electra makes an utter fool of herself. In the middle of her misery,...
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