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1) Restart
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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10 Worth Trying: Young Adult Realistic Fiction [Middle School Readers]
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
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Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
2) I funny
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
I funny volume 2
Language
English
Description
In this follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller I Funny, middle schooler Jamie Grimm has big dreams of being the best stand-up comic in the world-and he won't let the fact that he's wheelchair-bound stand in his way. After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family...
5) Wolf Hollow
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Language
English
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Annabelle must learn to stand up for what's right in the face of a manipulative and violent new bully who targets people Annabelle cares about, including a homeless World War I veteran"--
6) Bone Gap
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Language
English
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Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
7) Dinosaur boy
Author
Series
Dinosaur boy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.
Author
Series
Super Fly volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When fourth-grader Eugene, a small and nerdy, mild-mannered housefly, becomes the world's smallest superhero, he takes on Crazy Cockroach and his army of insect baddies.
Author
Series
Finding Langston volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Rafe Khatchadorian's new year at middle school is starting to look depressingly like the old one, except that art class is going well--and when he joins the flag-football team and demonstrates some talent as a running-back, he discovers a way of dealing with his bullying nemesis and teammate, Miller the Killer.
11) I am enough
Author
Language
English
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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Black Lives Matter: Picture Books
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
Black Lives Matter: Picture Books
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
Description
This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another-from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Moving to a new city and joining an evangelical church despite his own reluctance, artistic Mike is bullied by a father who wants him to play sports and toughen up, a situation that is complicated by Mike's growing feelings for another newcomer.
15) Playground
Author
Language
English
Description
After beating up Maurice on the playground, Butterball is forced to see the school therapist.
Author
Series
Sam Wu is not afraid volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After an embarrassing incident on his school field trip, Sam is determined to prove that he is not afraid of ghosts.
17) Lunch box bully
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Max outwits a bully and makes a new friend in this I Like to Read easy reader"--
18) Save me a seat
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Language
English
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Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
19) Lunch every day
Author
Publisher
KO Kids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a boy named Jimmy who takes another kid's lunch at school every day. But through the power of kindness he is transformed into a compassionate human being.--Publisher.
20) You go first
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, twelve, and Ben, eleven, are highly-skilled competitors at online Scrabble and that connection helps both as they face family issues and the turmoil of middle school.
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