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Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a creative seven-year-old girl spots a blue china bird that she desperately wants, she forms an imaginative plan for getting it.
Author
Series
Henrietta books (Martine Murray) volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Henrietta, whose favorite color is red and who wants to be an explorer, describes some of her life with her baby brother Albert, her dog Madge, her best friend Olive, and what it is like to be "half a Hen and half a Rietta."
4) Nerd camp
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it's a camp for "nerds."
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Series
Language
English
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Calli, the third child in a family of busy high-achievers, likes to take her time and observe rather than rush around, and when she meets an awkward, insecure second-grader named Noah and is paired with him in the Peer Helper Program, she finds satisfaction and strength in working with him.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Rumple Buttercup has 5 crooked teeth, 3 strands of hair, green skin, and his left foot is slightly bigger than his right. He is weird. Join him and Candy Corn Carl (his imaginary friend made of trash) as they learn the joy of individuality as well as the magic of belonging."--
10) My life begins!
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Dubbing his new triplet sisters "the Trips," nine-year-old Jacob studies them for a science project by watching them grow and realizes they aren't just "the Trips" anymore, but individuals he has come to love
Author
Series
Bobby Ellis-Chan books volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Bobby is hurt when he hears his father, a former pro-football player, say that they two of them are nothing alike, but finally summons the courage to talk about it after his public asthma attack proves how right his father is.
Author
Series
Kelly twins (Johanna Hurwitz) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Cherishing everything about being identical twins, Arlene and Ilene are astonished when they discover that they do not share everything in like manner, from ice cream preferences to favorite nail polish colors.
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This anti-war story is told through the eyes of Douglas, the only ant in Antworld who has a name. He dreams of joining the beautiful line that delivers food, but he's been enlisted to be a soldier, and it's probably for the best that he doesn't understand quite what that means... -- from Amazon.
14) Wish girl
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
15) Lynn Visible
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Despite the derision of most of her peers for her fashion-forward designs and eclectic dress style, high-school freshman Lynn Vincent has always had confidence in her own creative abilities and sense of fashion until she is persuaded to audition for an online teen magazine and wears her most amazing creation.
Author
Series
Sprinkle Sundays volume 9
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sierra is tired of being known as zthe sweetest girl in the ice cream shop,y but she still wants everybody to like her! Can she spice up her personality (and learn to say no occasionally), and still keep all her friends? Sierra decides to pour her feelings into an original song-and through music, she's able to find her voice. --from Amazon.
17) Bite the bagel
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Prankster Alley and bunny-suited brainiac Rex help each other survive PE and save the breakfast cart.
18) School spirit
Author
Series
Suddenly supernatural volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Like her mother, a professional medium, Kat has been able to see dead people since turning thirteen, and although they would prefer to be normal, Kat and her best friend come to terms with their own talents while helping free the spirit of a girl trapped at their middle school.
19) Alley & Rex
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alley Katz must get an A on a science test, but rather than work with peer mentor Rex, a fourth-grader in a bunny suit, he decides to steal the answer key from the teachers' lounge.
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