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Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
Author
Language
English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
TAB 2022: H-B Woodlawn
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
TAB 2022: H-B Woodlawn
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Description
Estranged from the best friend whose brother killed her sister in a school shooting, a grieving Cora receives a message on her twelfth birthday from her friend, asking for her help with creating a time portal to prevent the tragedy.
5) Dear Mothman
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
6) Mimi
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mimi is determined not to give up on anyone or anything, but since Mammy died, her father never smiles, her sister Sally is in a bad mood, brother Conor keeps to himself, and even Sparkler the dog does not want to go for walks.
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Latinx Authors: Books for Elementary Grades
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Pura Belpré Award winners
Rick Riordan Presents
Latinx Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Pura Belpré Award winners
Rick Riordan Presents
Description
How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken...
10) Boomi's boombox
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
11) Firefly Hollow
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because their dreams of daring adventures go against the cautious teachings of their nations, Firefly and Cricket set out on their own, find a home with kindly Vole, and together help a grieving "miniature giant" named Peter.
12) Summerlost
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Following the sudden deaths of her father and autistic younger brother, Cedar Lee spends the summer working at a Shakespearean theater festival, making a new friend, and coming to terms with her grief."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Middle Grade
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
Trans and Nonbinary Authors: Books for Middle Grade
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Description
"In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself"--
14) Trowbridge Road
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
16) Otherwood
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world.' Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
18) Mayday
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Wayne Kovok loses his uncle to war and his voice to a plane crash in the same year and must learn to speak up as he navigates relationships with his father, grandfather, and new friend, Denny Rosenblatt"--
19) Just like that
Author
Language
English
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Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
20) The only game
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
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