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Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

Formats

Description

When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.

2) Diary of a wimpy kid: the meltdown

Author

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 13

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Formats

Description

When snow closes Greg Heffley's middle school, he and his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, face a fight for survival as warring gangs turn the neighborhood into a wintry battlefield.

3) Diary of a wimpy kid: The third wheel

Author

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook, eBook

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.

4) Awesome friendly adventure

Author

Series

Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

"From the imagination of Rowley Jefferson comes an adventure of epic proportions. Join Roland and his best friend, Garg the Barbarian, as they leave the safety of their village and embark on a quest to save Roland's mom from the White Warlock. Will our heroes survive? Find out in Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure!" --

5) Diary of an awesome friendly kid: Rowley Jefferson's journal

Author

Series

Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Formats

Description

In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.

6) Good-bye Stacey, good-bye

Author

Martin, Ann M

Series

Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 13

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"How do you say good-bye to your very best friend?"--Page 1 of cover.

7) The thing about jellyfish

Author

Benjamin, Ali

Pub. Date

2015.

Language

English

Appears on list

TAB 2016 Picks

Formats

Description

2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
2023 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
TAB 2023: Gunston
TAB 2023: Kenmore

Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death.

8) Crunch

Author

Miller, Kayla

Series

Click volume 5

Language

English

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Formats

Book, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

Titles Worth Trying: LGBTQIA+ [High School]

Kayla Miller, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Click, Camp, Act, and Clash, returns with a new Olive story! Olive is balancing the too-many things she wants to do with the too-few hours in the day to do them. When everything adds up, suddenly it's crunch time!

It's no secret that Olive loves trying new things. Between taking guitar lessons, making a short film, joining Berry Scouts, and leading the charge

...

9) Loveless

Author

Oseman, Alice

Language

English

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Description

This is the funny, honest, messy, completely relatable story of Georgia, who doesn't understand why she can't crush and kiss and make out like her friends do. She's surrounded by the narrative that dating + sex = love. It's not until she gets to college that she discovers the A range of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum -- coming to understand herself as asexual/aromantic. Disrupting the narrative that she's been told since birth isn't easy -- there are many...

10) I survived the eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980

Author

Tarshis, Lauren

Series

I survived volume 14

Publisher

Scholastic Inc

Language

English

Formats

Description

Raina Telgemeier Read Alikes

On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered--all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.

11) Just Jaime

Author

Libenson, Terri

Series

Emmie & friends volume 3
Emmie and friends volume 3

Language

English

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Formats

eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook, Kindle

Another spot-on story of middle school drama and friendship from Terri Libenson, national bestselling author of graphic novel favorites Invisible Emmie and Positively Izzy.

Friends. Frenemies. Middle school...

The last day of seventh grade has Jaime and Maya wondering who their real friends are.

Jaime knows something is off with her friend group. They've started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses

...

12) Ivy + Bean and the ghost that had to go

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 2
Ivy and Bean

Language

English

Formats

Description

Second-graders Ivy and Bean set out to expel the ghost who is living in the girls' bathroom at their school.

13) The Terrible Two's last laugh

Author

Barnett, Mac

Series

Terrible two volume 4

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook, Kindle

As the Terrible Two face the end of their time together in Yawnee Valley, they are determined to pull a prank that changes the town forever.

14) Ivy + Bean doomed to dance

Author

Barrows, Annie

Series

Ivy + Bean volume 6
Ivy and Bean

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook, Kindle

Second-grade best friends Ivy and Bean beg for ballet lessons, then, when they are cast as squids in their first recital, scheme to find a way out of what seems to be boring, hard, and potentially embarrassing.

15) Princess Posey and the perfect present

Author

Greene, Stephanie

Series

Princess Posey books volume 2
Princess Posey first grader volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

2023 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 4 & 5
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Middle Grade
Titles Worth Trying: Graphic Novels [Grades 3-5]

For first-grader Posey, every school day is great until her teacher's birthday, when her best friend's gift of an enormous bouquet puts Posey's few homegrown roses to shame.

16) The Tryout: A Graphic Novel

Author

Soontornvat, Christina

Pub. Date

2022.

Language

English

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Formats

Book, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle

Description

STAND TALL.

BE LOUD.

GAME FACE ON.

This pitch perfect graphic memoir about courage and competition, friendship and belonging is perfect for fans of Smile, New Kid, Rollergirl, and Real Friends.

"A captivating middle-grade gem." - The New York Times Book Review

★ "Funny, relatable, and genuine." - Kirkus Reviews, starred

...

17) Eva and the new owl

Author

Elliott, Rebecca

Series

Owl diaries volume 4

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Stick and Stone
Weston Woods read-along CD

Eva wants to be friends with Hailey, the new owl in her class, but when Hailey seems to prefer Lucy's company, Eva starts to feel left out, and even a little jealous of her best friend.

18) Stick and Stone

Author

Ferry, Beth

Series

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kids Read-A-Long, Kindle

Description

10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Horror [High School Readers]

Stick and Stone are both lonely until Pinecone's teasing causes one to stick up for the other, and a solid friendship is formed.

19) Genuine fraud

Author

Lockhart, E

Pub. Date

2017.

Language

English

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Formats

Description

Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her. A girl who refuses to be the person she once was. -- from Amazon. Told through...

20) Nancy Clancy: secret of the silver key

Author

O'Connor, Jane

Series

Nancy Clancy volume 4

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description