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41) Invisible
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: How can you be yourself when no one sees the real you? Five students meet in the school cafeteria when they're forced to complete their school community service hours. There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel, the jock. They immediately know that they have nothing in common with each other... even though their school administration has decided that they all belong together....
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Hope (Alyssa Milano) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Hope Roberts is a confident eleven-year-old girl who plans to be an astrophysicist, and who loves swimming, Galaxy Girl comic books, her best friend Sam, and her two rescue dogs (not necessarily in that order); but then she starts middle school, and suddenly she cannot seem to do anything right--even science club is a problem because she and another girl, Camilla, get stuck with the boring part of the science project that they suggested, but Hope...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When a stiff-necked teacher with staunch views against the Chinese moves to Emma Fong's mining town of La Porte, California, she'll have to rely on her wits and the strength of her people to survive his anti-Asian prejudice and stake her claim as an American in the Wild West"--
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she's strong. Like suuuuper strong. Freakishly strong. And it's making it impossible for her to fit in at her new middle school. In a desperate bid to get rid of her super strength, Thom makes a deal with the Monkey King, a powerful deity and legendary trickster she accidentally released from his 500-year prison sentence. Thom agrees to help the Monkey King get back his magical staff if he'll take away...
45) Connect the dots
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Twelve-year-olds Oliver Beane and Frankie Figge are starting middle school in their suburban town of Lake Grove Glen, but from the beginning things seem a little weird, starting with the mysterious girl Matilda Sandoval who seems to know a lot about the boys, and continuing with a series of apparently random events that may not be random at all; somehow it all leads back to Preston Oglethorpe, a former student genius at their school who won the Nobel...
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Zack Delacruz volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zack Delacruz has remained happily unnoticed at his middle school... until now. When he sees his classmate being teased by the school bully, Zack surprises everyone--including himself--by breaking out of his shell and standing up to the tormentor. Somehow this act of bravery gets Zack put in charge of the sixth-grade dance fund raiser with none other than the bully himself! Zack's situation goes from bad to worse when he learns that...
47) Food fight
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Ben Snyder is ready for middle school. But his super picky eating, which has never been a big deal before, is about to take him down. Suddenly everybody's on his case about what he's eating and what he's not his old friends, his new friends, his weird lab partner, the girl he's crushing on, and a bully and Ben finds himself in social free fall, sliding toward the bottom of the middle school food chain. Even worse, there's an upcoming three-day class...
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Series
Merci Suarez volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Seventh grade is going to be a real trial for Merci Suárez. For science she's got no-nonsense Mr. Ellis, who expects her to be a smart as her brother, Roli. She's been assigned to co-manage the tiny school store with Wilson Bellevue, a boy she barely knows, but whom she might actually like. And she's tangling again with classmate Edna Santos, who is bossier and more obnoxious than ever now that she is in charge of the annual...
49) Break
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Series
Click volume 6
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her friend...
50) Qué asco de día
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Series
Misadventures of Max Crumbly volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Max is about to face the scariest place he's ever been -- South Ridge Middle School! He has been home-schooled by his grandmother until now, and he's begged his parents to finally let him start attending public middle school. He's starting to question that choice, though, with the Thomas Silver Problem. As in, Thomas Silver keeps stuffing Max in his locker. If only Max could be like the hero in all the comics he likes to read -- or the ones he draws...
51) Anyone's game
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Series
Cross Ups volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What's up with Cali? Why does she keep changing her gamer tag? It's summertime, and even though his good friend Cali moved to another city, Jaden can connect with her online almost every day to play their favorite game, Cross Ups. His mom has loosened her rules on how often he can play, and he has an amazing new controller that will make him even better at tournaments. But then he gets roped into a dorky summer camp with his buddy Hugh, and Cali...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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I have never felt like I belonged to my body. Never in the way rhythm belongs to a song or waves belong to an ocean. It seems like most people figure out where they belong by knowing where they came from. When they look in the mirror, they see their family in their eyes, in their sharp jawlines, in the texture of their hair. When they look at family photos, they see faces of people who look like them. They see faces of people who they'll look like...
53) Caos Escolar
Author
Series
Misadventures of Max Crumbly volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Max Crumbly continúa metiéndose en líos sin saber muy bien cómo ... ¡Él no parará hasta convertirse en el héroe del insti! Tras colarse en los canales de ventilación de South Ridge, Max sale por una tramapilla y cae ... ¡encima de tres criminales con músculos hasta en las encías! ¿Lo cortarán a rodajitas como si fuera mozzarella para la pizza? ¿O podrá esurrirse en su estilo más genuino: chapucero y más bien cutre?
"When we last...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Merci Suárez sabía que el sexto grado sería diferente, pero no tenía idea alguna lo diferente que resultaría. En primer lugar, Merci nunca se ha parecido a los otros niños de su escuela privada en la Florida, porque tanto ella como Roli, su hermano mayor, son estudiantes becados. Ellos no tienen ni una casa grande ni un yate elegante, y tienen que desempeñar servicios comunitarios adicionales para compensar por su matricula gratis. Así que...
55) Virtually me
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
56) Riley's ghost
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Riley Flynn is alone. It feels like she's been on her own since sixth grade, when her best friend, Emily, ditched her for the cool girls. Girls who don't like Riley. Girls who decide one day to lock her in the science closet after hours, after everyone else has gone home. When Riley is finally able to escape, however, she finds that her horror story is only just beginning. All the school doors are locked, the windows won't budge,...
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Series
I funny volume 1
Language
English
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Children's Books- Disabilities and Neurodiversity
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
If You Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Read These!
McKinney March Madness
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Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
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Dear dumb diary. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Series
Cupcake diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mia asks the girls in the Cupcake Club to be junior bridesmaids in her mother's wedding, but when the dresses cost far more than she expects, she has to get busy making some money.
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