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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
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Sunny side up volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Sunny's life becomes confusing when she starts middle school, with her best friend Deb's interests changing to fashion, boys, makeup, and being cool, while Sunny would rather play Dungeons & Dragons with friends.
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Spy school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Ben's unexpected success outside the classroom causes the CIA to activate him for a mission to become friends with Jessica Shang, daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"No matter what anyone tells you, I'm real." That's what the note says that Max finds under his keyboard. He knows that his best friend, Josie, wrote it. He'd know her handwriting anywhere. But why she wrote it -- and what it means -- remains a mystery. Ever since they met in kindergarten, Max and Josie have been inseparable. Until the summer after fifth grade, when Josie disappears, leaving only a note, and whispering something about "whatnot rules."...
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Sunny side up volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Life is best...
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Spy school volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old spy in training Ben Ripley is sent to Mexico to try to thwart the evil organization, SPYDER--the CIA's main enemy.
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Series
Friends (Hale) volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy. As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects...
8) Invisible
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Can five overlooked kids make one big difference? There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel: the athlete And they're stuck together when they're forced to complete their school's community service hours. Although they're sure they have nothing in common with one another, some people see them as all the same... just five Spanish-speaking kids. Then they meet someone who truly needs their help, and...
9) Real friends
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Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When her best friend Adrienne starts hanging out with the most popular girl in class, Shannon questions with whether she and Adrienne will stay friends, and if she is part of the clique.
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by his best friend and having a hard time finding new friends in middle school, Greg decides to change his luck and turn all his decisions over to chance.
11) Roller girl
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart.
12) Freestyle
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Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things go from bad to worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He gets stuck with a new tutor,...
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Blackthorn key volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1666, after four months away, friends Christopher Rowe, Tom, and Sally return to London triumphantly but, guided by coded riddles, face a conspiracy that threatens Christopher, as well as the king himself.
14) Best friends
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life.
15) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the same Chinese-American suburb, perfectionist Christine and artistic, confident, impulsive Moon become unlikely best friends, whose friendship is tested by jealousy, social expectations, and illness.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Christopher Rowe is shipwrecked in Devonshire, where children are disappearing and a ghost is suspected, but even Tom and Sally's arrival may not cure his amnesia in time to help.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and 'friends.' When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret...her...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
20) Swing it, Sunny
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Series
Sunny side up volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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From the award winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the sequel to the bestselling Sunny Side Up -- full of just as much heart and just as many laughs.
Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.Not only is the whole middle school...
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