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Emmie and friends volume 6
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Middle School: pride, popularity . . . poetry? Ruby and Mia are total opposites. Ruby is a little awkward, not a joiner, and loves to write poems, while Mia is type A, popular(ish), and wants to be class prez. They used to be friends. But now they have nothing in common anymore . . . or do they? From bestselling author Terri Libenson, this is a story about how there’s more to everyone than meets the eye.
2) Just Jaime
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Series
Emmie and Friends volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"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 and the things she likes. At least she can count on her BFF, Maya, to have her back . . . right? Maya feels more and more annoyed with Jaime, who seems babyish compared to the other girls in their popular group....
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Emmie and Friends volume 1
Description
This is the story of two totally different girls--quiet, shy, artistic Emmie and popular, outgoing, athletic Katie--and how their lives unexpectedly intersect one day, when an embarrassing note falls into the wrong hands. All the crushes, humiliation, boredom, and drama of middle school are compressed into one surprising day.
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Description
How bad was it in junior high? Comics artists visualize the anguish in this honest, acutely perceptive compendium of cartoon black humor. Editor Schrag, who relived her high-school years in several books, adds herself to an impressive roundup of artists, including Aaron Reiner, Lauren Weinstein, and Daniel Clowes, whose comics were adapted into an Oscar-nominated movie, Ghost World . The comics hit the mark in terms of emotional content, whether the...
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Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. Impy has always thought of herself as a heroic knight, but when she does something really mean in order to fit in, she begins to wonder whether she might be more of a dragon after all.
6) A new class
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Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 4
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Victor Starspeeder is excited to be starting school at the Jedi Academy. His sister, Christina is NOT, in fact, she's horrified that her annoying brother will be there to cramp her style. Victor lands himself in detention more than he means to, supervised by . Yoda. Yoda tries to channel Victor's talents, forcing him to join the drama club: "Learn to control your anger, you must! Successfully manage their emotions, a good Jedi can. Box step and jazz...
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Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 5
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Victor Starspeeder is back at Jedi Academy for year two, but it's not going the way he'd planned. He was thrilled about Drama Club and hoped to get the lead in this year's musical, but a new kid got the role. What gives? Plus, he keeps oversleeping and getting to class late. Worst of all, his big sister Christina is getting ready to graduate from Jedi Academy and there are rumours going around that she's a Sith. What's a Padawan to do? Feeling more...
8) Apple crush
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Peapod farm volume 2
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Jen is just getting used to her life on Peapod Farm with her new stepsisters, Andy and Reese, but when the school year starts, there are even more changes in store for her.
9) Class act
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Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants...
11) Wires crossed
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Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing--and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends -- between feeling like a kid and growing up.
Author
Series
Star Wars Jedi Academy volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Christina Starspeeder takes us on a new adventure at the advanced Jedi Academy campus.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
It's Victor Starspeeder's third year at Jedi Academy. It's also his first year ever without his sister, Christina. Things at Jedi Academy have changed. After last year's security breach, Principal Marr has been demoted and replaced with Commander ZC-04, a big, scary droid. There's a curfew, new regulations, and everyone is on edge. But when Victor and his friends dig a little deeper into the changes at the school, they find that there's a lot more...
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Big Nate volume 26
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Sixth-grade dynamo Nate Wright has all kinds of big plans and tricks up his sleeve, including writing a new hit children's book, trying to convince his dad to get him a new dog for Christmas, and helping his friend Chad score a new nickname at P.S. 38. Along the way, he encounters resistance from all the usual suspects, including Mrs. Godfrey, classmate Gina, and anyone skeptical of his plans to become an award-winning author. And as usual, things...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Young Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, a prep school for gifted middle school students. Bruce finds out pretty quickly that he doesn't fit in: the faculty seems to not just encourage villainous behavior from its students, but reward it. He makes friends with two other outsiders, farm boy Clark Kent and the regal Diana Prince. The three band together to form a detective squad to find out why all of these extraordinary kids have been brought...
19) Brave
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Although shy Jensen daydreams about being a hero, the reality of his school life is very different, but when two school newpapers writers begin to put him in their stories, he discovers he may have to find real solutions for his problems
20) Other boys
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Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Starting a new school, seventh-grader Damian takes a vow of silence to avoid being bullied, making him wonder, if boys can be so cruel, why he has a crush on one?
