How to Survive Middle School

Books about the Middle School experience found in the Juvenile fiction collection

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Book cover for "11 before 12"
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Series:
Friendship list volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Kaylan and her BFF, Arianna, have a foolproof plan for surviving middle school. 1. Make a list of eleven things they need to do to become amazing before they turn twelve. 2. Show off their brand-new selves with the best joint birthday party in the history of West Brookside Middle School. But between cafeteria drama, crushes gone wrong, and some major misunderstandings, Kaylan and Ari lose sight of the one thing they forgot to put on their list: "Keep...
Book cover for "The 47 people you'll meet in middle school"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Discover the ins and outs of middle school in this guide from an older sister to her younger sister. From tackling a new building to meeting new people like the assistant principal, the class pet, the Huggers, the renegade, the tomato kid, your old best friend's new best friend, this is a must-read for everyone starting middle school.
Book cover for "Absolute hero"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Anxious about starting middle school, eleven-year-old Izzy Newton proposes a STEM club and, with her best friends Allie Einstein and Charlie Darwin, investigates why the building is so cold--and why former friend Marie has shut them out.
Book cover for "Alice Austen lived here"
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3.7 stars
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"Middle school student Sam is comfortable with his nonbinary identity, and his family has accepted it too (as long as he does his homework and chores), so when his history teacher assigns as a project coming up with a proposal for the new statue honoring a historical Staten Islander (there is a contest involved) he and his friend TJ decide to focus on Alice Austen, a lesbian photographer, whose house on Staten Island is a museum--but they have to...
Book cover for "All of the above"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Five urban middle school students, their teacher, and other community members relate how a school project to build the world's largest tetrahedron affects the lives of everyone involved.
Book cover for "Amelia's middle-school graduation yearbook"
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Average Rating:
2.8 stars
Description:
"Long before there was Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Dork Diaries, there was Amelia's Notebook, the original handwritten diary format with a mix of words and pictures on every page. On the 20th anniversary of Amelia's Notebook, Amelia finally graduates from middle school!"--Back cover.
Book cover for "Are you nobody too?"
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"After years of discomfort as the only Chinese student at her private middle school, Emily transfers to Chinatown's I.S. 23 for 8th Grade and ends up feeling more disconnected than ever. In this coming-of-age novel-in-verse, will Emily be able to find her way or will she lose herself completely?"--
Book cover for "Attack of the black rectangles"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.
Book cover for "Barakah Beats"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
Book cover for "Bea is for blended"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Soon after her mother marries a man with three sons, sixth-grader Bea Embers fights to form a girls' soccer team at school, despite discrimination and setbacks.
Book cover for "Bea Mullins takes a shot"
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Twelve-year-old Bea joins her school's first all-girls hockey team to support her best friend, navigates rocky relationships with her crush Gabi and best friend Celia, and steps up to help save the team when its funding is threatened.
Book cover for "Because of Mr. Terupt"
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Series:
Mr. Terupt volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
Book cover for "Best Frenemies Forever"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Sophie Dailey is NOT looking forward to starting middle school. For one thing, she doesn't look like the other kids. Instead of trendy tank tops, she wears high-tech shirts that block UV rays. (Sun protection is serious business!) And she definitely doesn't sound like the other kids either. (She can't say "sweet" or "stan" without making a weird face.) Needless to say, this is probably why her best friend, Ella, ditched her for Queen Bee Morgan. Even...
Book cover for "Big Nate"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
Book cover for "Bird nerd"
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Eleven-year-old bird enthusiast Nyla sets out to win her city school's birding tournament against tough competition from the suburbs, while balancing old friends with new.
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
Book cover for "A brand-new me!"
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Hank Zipzer volume 17.
Description:
As he is preparing to attend middle school, Hank, who has learning differences and academic difficulties, gets an unexpected opportunity to audition for a performing arts school where his creativity and humor will be appreciated and nurtured.
Book cover for "Brooke's not-so-perfect plan"
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When Brooke and two of her friends are put in charge of the school newspaper's advice column during their first year of middle school, Brooke has a difficult time juggling all her activities.
Book cover for "Bye forever, I guess"
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Eighth-grader Ingrid runs a popular blog anonymously and has online personal more popular than she is, but when a wrong-number text message offers her a chance at connection, Ingrid opens herself to the opportunity to make a real live friend.
Book cover for "The case of the contraband closet"
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Series:
Bubblegum shoes volume 1.
Description:
"When a stockpile of confiscated classroom items [goes] missing, (self-appointed) seventh grade PI Maya is on the case"--Provided by publisher.