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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Threatened with diminishing resources, Booger Lizk't and his family flee their lizard community deep below Earth's crust to survive above among humans. The Lizk't family of Elberon now passes as the Tomkins family of Eagle Valley. "Tommy Tomkins" wears a human face to school but can't seem to fit in no matter how he looks. The basketball team becomes a pipe dream when bullies label him a bug eater, and only Dung Tran, an immigrant from Vietnam and...
44) Smaller sister
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confidence, and the everlasting bond of sisterhood. Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia start to change. She doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not...
45) Invisible Emmie
Author
Series
Emmie and friends volume 1
Language
English
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This is the story of two totally different girls -- quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie -- and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. All the crushes, humiliation, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surprising day.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Language
English
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Wanting to pay for her junior bridesmaid dress herself, Emma quickly finds herself challenged with not enough time to keep up with her various part-time jobs.
48) Truly Tyler
Author
Series
Emmie and friends volume 5
Language
English
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Description
A story about being your truest self--and trusting your truest friends. Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school. Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball? Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough....
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 17
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nate endures a series of middle school hijinks and adventures while dealing with his crush on his baseball team's new pitcher.
50) Fake blood
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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.
52) Mia in the mix
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Language
English
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When Mia arrives at her new school, her goal is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique. When the Popular Girls Club takes an interest in Mia's awesome fashion style and wants to recruit her, Mia must decide between them and her great new Cupcake Club friends. It's like choosing between her divorced mom and dad and her old house and new house. Is it always going to be Mia in the middle, or can...
Author
Series
Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Returning to the Jedi Academy for his third year, Victor Starspeeder must navigate a strict new droid principal's regulations and other school changes that are tied to a mysterious secret.
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 14
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Self-described genius, aspiring cartoonist, and sixth-grade detention record holder Big Nate navigates the trials and tribulations of life in the halls of P.S. 38 with his classmates Gina, Artur, Francis, Jenny and Teddy.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nate counts on his friends Teddy, Francis, and Chad to cheer him up when things don't go his way, including when his soccer team loses to a team with a sixty-game winless streak and his crush suddenly moves across the country.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Language
English
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Description
When Alexis develops a crush on Emma's brother, she decides to approach this new feeling in her usual organized manner by conducting research and developing a plan.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kirby creates online videos showing kids why growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be, but when his best friend, Raja, finds out that Kirby isn't the person he's pretending to be, they may be forced to grow up sooner than they think.
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nate Wright is an eleven years old sixth grader who has the distinction of setting the record for school detentions.
60) Awkward
Author
Series
Berrybrook Middle School volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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